Woodland was originally called Yolo City and was renamed in 1861. It became the county seat of Yolo County in 1862. The town boasts of its historic downtown and there are many fine Victorian houses to view along its tree-lined streets. The character of the town is agricultural and as a result we have placed this cache in an agricultural area outside of town.
The Woodland Quadrangle boundaries are:
N 38º 37’ 30” and N 38º 45’ 00”
W 121º 45’ 00” and W 121º 52’ 30”
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has many missions. At one time, a major mission of the USGS was the supplying of topographic maps of the United States on several scales. Our cache series is based on the 7.5-minute quadrangle series.
The term quadrangle is used, instead of quadrilateral or rectangle, because the sides of these blocks are curved. The USGS divided the United States into quadrangles that are 7.5 minutes by 7.5 minutes. Since a degree is divided into 60 minutes, a quadrangle one degree by one degree contains 64 of these quadrangles. The USGS also produced a 15-minute series, but that’s another story.