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• 1895 U.S. Atlas - West Virginia

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

• American Memory Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 - West Virginia

  From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

• American Memory Railroad Maps 1828-1900 - West Virginia

  From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

• 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 - U.S. Map Collection, 1513-1990 - Mid Atlantic States

    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.

  • Ancestry.com - U.S. Map Collection, 1513-1990 - West Virginia

    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.

• 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.

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• Color Landform Atlas: West Virginia

  Including a map of counties and a map for 1895.

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

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

• Historic USGS Maps of West Virginia - Image Map

• Historic USGS Maps of West Virginia - Quad Index

• Historic USGS Maps of West Virginia - Town Index

• Machine Cancel Publications by Richard E. Small

  Listings of historic post office locations for sale for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Virginia, West Virginia, the terrritory of Puerto Rico, & more.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Map of West Virginia Counties

• MapQuest: World Atlas: West Virginia

• MyTopo: Historical Topographic Maps

  A collection of historic USGS topographic maps. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.

• RootsWeb Town Search - TownCo

  Enter the name of a U.S. town to learn the name of the county where that town is located.

• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - West Virginia Maps

  From The University of Texas at Austin.

  • Map of West Virginia

• U.S. Census Bureau - State and County QuickFacts - West Virginia County Selection Map

• USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library

  • West Virginia Digital Map Library

• Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS - West Virginia

  Search the USGS Geographic Names Database. You can limit the search to a specific county in this state and search for any of the following features: airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods.