[Soupy]

I also have been building and offering my own UI on top of the USGS collection of maps (among others in the public domain) at https://pastmaps.com if anyone else finds the existing UIs frustrating like I do. This is a labor of love and something I'm continuing to chip away at and make better and better with time

Interestingly enough, I ended up discovering some incorrect data in their system as part of my ingestion process 4 months ago and directly worked with the USGS to both report the pipeline errors causing bad output and they were incredibly prompt and open to collaborating on identifying the issue and proper fix (roughly a 2 week turnaround from original report to correction). I honestly wonder if this 1700+ update to the ESRI collection is a direct result of that work because the numbers do roughly align so that would be exciting!