alt Hacker NewsThanks for occupying my past few hours (great USGS link!).
It's crazy to me how many errors are on these official maps (even in to present day, e.g.: roads that don't actually exist), particularly the newer maps creating connections between roadways which don't actually exist (I imagine this is image-recognition errors, when former human techs used to actually field verify everything).
Prolly not the case here, but an interesting tidbit in cartography are so called trap streets, fake streets, towns, to trap plagiarists.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street