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Example sentences for: quadrangle
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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).
Since quadrangle maps are named for the most prominent feature on the map, he had difficulty trying to explain his choice of name.
It is not possible to name the Sherman quadrangle the Faywood quadrangle because there already is a Faywood Station quadrangle adjacent to the Sherman quadrange.
The chief center of population of the Sherman quadrangle is called Dwyer, but the post office at Dwyer is called Faywood Post Office.
“Then there was the problem a Geological Survey fieldman had in proposing the name of a quadrangle map in New Mexico.