LAB 2 

1.     Name of Quadrangle: Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2.     Names of Adjacent Quadrangles:

·       Canoga Park

·       Van Nuys

·       Burbank

·       Topanga

·       Hollywood

·       Venice

·       Inglewood

3.     Date Quadrangle Was First Created: 1966

4.     Datum Used:

·       North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27)

·       North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83)

5.     Map Scale: 1:24,000

6.     At Scale 1:24,000:

a.     5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to 1,200 meters on the ground

b.     5 inches on the map is equivalent to 1.89 miles on the ground

c.     One mile on the ground is equivalent to 2.64 inches on the map

d.     3 kilometers on the ground is equivalent to 12.5 centimeters on the map

7.     Contour Interval: 20 feet

8.     Approximate Geographic Coordinates:

a.     The Public Affairs Building: 34°04’30”, -118°26’15” or 34.075°, -118.438°

b.     The tip of Santa Monica Pier: 34°00’27”, -118°30’00” or 34.008°, -118.500°

c.     The Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir: 34°07’15”, -118°24’30” or 34.121°,

-118.408°

9.     Approximate Elevation:

a.     Greystone Mansion: 580 feet or 176.784 meters

b.     Woodlawn Cemetery: 140 feet or 42.672 meters   

c.     Crestwood Hills Park: 640 feet or 195.072 meters

10.  UTM Zone: Zone 11

11.  UTM Coordinates (lower left corner): 361500mE and 3763000mN

12.  Square meters per square of the UTM gridlines: 1,000,000 square meters

13.  Elevations at UTM northing 3771000m: 

14.  Magnetic Declination: 14° east

15.  Direction water flows (stream between 405 and Stone Canyon Reservoir): north to south

16.  Map of UCLA: