newtocoinhunting
Jr. Member
Aerial photos/maps of the "historical" sites in a certain area
I found this link the other day and I thought maybe I should share with others who could use it as well:
http://www.lat-long.com/
On the front page at that site you can enter the following to find the "historical" sites in your county (as per USGS topo maps), that is the old schools, post offices, etc..
To use it, you can enter:
Location Name: historical
State: <Select your state from the dropdown menu>
County: YourCountyName
Feature Type: <Leave the drop-down at "Search All" or select a feature to narrow the list>
The resulting search URL looks like this, you can modify it if you want a shortcut (just replace NE with your state and Hall with your county):
http://www.lat-long.com/Lookup.cfm?...unty=Hall&FeatureType=&Submit=Lat-Long+Search
There are many places to get this same info but this was a useful site for me. For creating complete topo maps of an entire county or state, USAPhotoMaps/TerraFetcher are an unbeatable (free) combination. I personally have the 8m aerials / 64m topos of all states downloaded if anyone is interested in saving some time, I also have the 1m aerials and 4m topos of NE completed but admittedly they might only prove of interest to those local to NE).
Hope that helps.
I found this link the other day and I thought maybe I should share with others who could use it as well:
http://www.lat-long.com/
On the front page at that site you can enter the following to find the "historical" sites in your county (as per USGS topo maps), that is the old schools, post offices, etc..
To use it, you can enter:
Location Name: historical
State: <Select your state from the dropdown menu>
County: YourCountyName
Feature Type: <Leave the drop-down at "Search All" or select a feature to narrow the list>
The resulting search URL looks like this, you can modify it if you want a shortcut (just replace NE with your state and Hall with your county):
http://www.lat-long.com/Lookup.cfm?...unty=Hall&FeatureType=&Submit=Lat-Long+Search
There are many places to get this same info but this was a useful site for me. For creating complete topo maps of an entire county or state, USAPhotoMaps/TerraFetcher are an unbeatable (free) combination. I personally have the 8m aerials / 64m topos of all states downloaded if anyone is interested in saving some time, I also have the 1m aerials and 4m topos of NE completed but admittedly they might only prove of interest to those local to NE).
Hope that helps.
