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• 1895 U.S. Atlas

  Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.

• 19th Century Atlas, Historic Maps, Historical Guides and Gazetteers

  • Historic Atlas Series: 19th Century Historical County Maps

    High resolution images of historic maps created from original 19th century county atlases. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin.

  • Historical Guides and Gazetteers: 19th Century Place Names

    Digital books, gazetteers and 19th century reference material useful in historical research and genealogy.

• American Memory Railroad Maps 1828-1900

  From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

• Ancestry Groups in the United States - Maps

• Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Ancestry.com - US Map Collection 1513-1990

    A collection of a variety of maps created for different scopes and purposes, including political and geographical. The maps are categorized as follows: cadastral, discovery and exploration, military, panoramic, thematic, topographic, transportation.

  • U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918

    Original source: Various publishers of County Land Ownership Atlases. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

• Andy's Antique Map - Andy's Antique Atlases

  Antique atlases Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, U.S. & World.

• Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation

  Fabulous Flash-animated depiction of the territorial expansion of the United States.

• animated GIF showing county boundaries for 1650, 1700, 1750, and census years from 1790 onward

• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

  From the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. Includes for each state: Interactive Map; Index of County and Equivalents; Consolidated Chronology; Individual County Chronologies; Bibliography and Sources; Historical Commentary; Metadata - Summary Form; Metadata - Full FGDC Form; Download GIS Files; Download KMZ Files; Download PDF Files.

  • About the Project

    A project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at The Newberry Library in Chicago, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a powerful historical research and reference tool in electronic form. The Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. It also includes non-county areas, unsuccessful authorizations for new counties, changes in county names and organization, and the temporary attachments of non-county areas and unorganized counties to fully functioning counties. The principal sources for these data are the most authoritative available: the session laws of the colonies, territories, and states that created and changed the counties.

  • State List

  • Using the Atlas

• Baedeker's Old Guide Books

  Featuring maps and town plans: Great Britain, 1910; London and its Environs, 1905; Spain and Portugal, 1901; The United States, 1909.

• Boundaries of the United States and of the several states and territories, with a historical sketch of the territorial changes (1885)

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States

• Early North American Maps | ManyRoads

  Maps for British Colonies, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, North America- 1704.

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

  From the USGS. Provides cemetery location information, as well as other physical features within a county and state.

• Historic Places - All Historic Places in the United States & Canada

  Includes an interactive map to locate historic places in your favorite region. The map highlights all historic places in North America, including famous landmarks.

• Historical County Lines

• HomeTownLocator - US Cities Gazetteer: Data for 42,500 US Cities, Towns & ZIP Codes

  Comprehensive and easy to use U.S. gazetteer with data for 1.8 million physical and cultural features, census information for 98,000 local areas and distance calculations for 177,000 populated places. Links to aerial photos, regional, local and topographical maps. Search by city, town, county, state or zip code.

• International Research - Migration Charts

  • Eastern United States Migration

  • Western United States Migration

• List of former United States counties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  This is a list of U.S. counties that were established by a state, provincial, colonial or territorial government which no longer exist, for one reason or another. This does not include counties that were renamed but retained their territorial integrity.

• Map Express

  Current and historic USGS topographical maps for genealogists, historians, and researchers.