United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
former U.S. agency responsible for providing accurate maps and charts of the United States and its coastline (1878 - 1970)
8 dated entries naming United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, drawn from 7 separate years between 1807 CE and 1917 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
Also written as United States Coast Survey in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.
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19th century
- 1807February 10 – The Survey of the Coast (renamed the United States Coast Survey in 1836 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878) is established; work begins on August 3, 1816.source
- 1807February 10 – The United States Coast Survey is established; work begins on August 3, 1816.source
- 1818April 14 – United States Coast Survey operations suspended until August 9, 1832.source
- 1832July 10 – The United States Survey of the Coast is revived within the Department of the Treasury.source
- 1836March 27 – The United States Survey of the Coast is returned to the U.S. Treasury Department, and renamed the U.S. Coast Survey.source
- 1878June 20 – The United States Coast Survey is renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.source
20th century
- 1913March 4 – The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established, by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey form part of the Department of Commerce.source
- 1917May 22 – The Commissioned Officer Corps of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is established.source