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Drawn to a scale of 1:24,000, each 7.5-minute map sheet or quadrangle covers an area of 8.6 miles north-to-south by about 7 miles east-to-west (the east-to-west distance varies depending on location, since meridians of longitude radiate out from the poles and are farther apart nearer the equator).