I guess its no huge surprise, given the price to mail a letter is going up yet a again (May 1) we should be able to deal with the fact that the USGS is going to increase the cost of paper USGS quad maps ever so slightly. According to the USGS, the cost of a standard paper quadsheet will go up $2 per sheet to $8 beginning today March 16, 2009. Larger format (“poster”) maps will go up $3 per sheet to $10. These prices were last increased 7 years ago. See more