A large-format engraved chart of New York Bay and Harbor from Newark, Staten Island, and Sandy Hook to Long Island and the Narrows — coastline, roads, and thousands of soundings in cream and pale green; title cartouche at lower left reads "Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the Environs".

Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the Environs, 1844–1845

1844

New York Bay and Harbor · Sandy Hook approaches (approx)

The first federal chart of New York Bay ever made from an instrument survey — the six-sheet composite compiled under A. D. Bache, superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey. Triangulation by Ferdinand Hassler, James Ferguson, and Edmund Blunt; hydrography under Thomas R. Gedney; topography by C. Renard and T. A. Jenkins. Sheets 1–4 were verified by C. M. Eakin and published in 1844; sheets 5 and 6 by Lt. A. A. Humphreys in 1845. This chart is the earliest instrumental fix on the position of Sandy Hook's tip that this chapter's growth timeline uses. Every later Coast Survey edition redraws the peninsula against this baseline; each one shows the tip walking further north past the fixed Sandy Hook Lighthouse.

Item record

Title: Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the Environs, 1844–1845
Date: 1844
Source: A. D. Bache, Superintendent · Survey of the Coast of the United States · 1844–1845 · scan from the New York Public Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Contributor: The New York Public Library · Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Rights: Public domain in the United States (federal government publication)
Slug: coast-survey-1845

Verification: unverified.

Cite this item

Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the Environs, 1844–1845 (1844). A. D. Bache, Superintendent · Survey of the Coast of the United States · 1844–1845 · scan from the New York Public Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/coast-survey-1845/.