TOPOGRAPHIC MAP EXERCISES - Bon Air Quadrangle

Quadrangle Name: BON AIR, VIRGINIA
Physiographic Feature: FALL LINE

This map is located along the Fall Line zone straddling the Coastal Plain and Piedmont.

1. This map shows urban and suburban areas around what city?
2. Notice how much growth the area saw between 1964 (base map) and 1987 (photorevised map). What proportion of the area on the map would you estimate became suburbanized between those years?
3. Not all this growth has been in Richmond City. What two counties shown on the map experienced a lot of this growth?
4. Name at least six different types of named structures that have been built between 1964 and 1987.
5. What evidence do you see of the Fall Line in the James River?
6. Use elevation markings and contour lines to estimate how much the river drops across the distance shown on the map.
7. Trace the path a small boat would take through the James River and Kanawha Canal. What difficulties in the James is the Canal by-passing?
8. What university is located near the center of the map toward the northeast corner (just north of the James River)? Has it added any buildings between 1964 and 1987?
9. Notice that across the center of the section of the map south of James, the Richmond City-Chesterfield County boundary is in purple. What does this mean?

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