Fun with Maps ISSUE 2025-156 (REWIND SPECIAL)

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (September 25, 2025) – In today’s edition of Fun with Maps, we look back to September 2023 for a special “Rewind Edition” – It doesn’t get any bigger than this!   (NOTE: Steve Kovacs is on a family sojourn and will return with all new FWM Friday, October 3, 2025)              

BIG TREE

Sequoia and nearby Kings Canyon US National Parks were established on September 25, 1890.  They are in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Mount Whitney, the highest mountain, at 14,505 feet, in the lower 48 states is in Sequoia.

Also, the largest tree in the world, as measured by volume, is in Sequoia National Park.  It is unsurprisingly a sequoia tree, called General Sherman, and is about 2200-2700 years old.  The tree is 275 feet tall and 25 feet wide, creating a whopping 53,000 cubic feet of tree volume.  Length isn’t everything.

Mitchell’s classic map of California is exhibited here from 1876.  The inset is the most important California city of the time, San Francisco.

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.