Historic maps?

[SandMan1130]

Does anyone know any historic or old map websites?

 

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[crashbandicoot]

Does anyone know any historic or old map websites?

Historic aerials is pretty good,they have topos and aerial photos with an overlay function that is handy.I don,t know how far back you want to go,sometimes late 1930s to early 1940s is as far back as they go.At least in my part of Arkansas. Try topoview and oldmapsonline.org too. Give you a starting point. If you can,t get what you want at these,just put in a search for old and historic maps.

 

[Gare]

Historic World Maps for Sale: Prints & Images: Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy™

Historic Map Works is the world's largest source for old, historic, antique world maps, charts & residential genealogy. Order custom prints or download images.

www.historicmapworks.com

I use the above quite a bit. Be sure to click on browse then search for the location you want . Such as Carroll county ohio

 

[Ocean7]

Hargrett Rare Library Map Collection - Colonial America

Maps of Early America

Civil War Maps

 

[ken135]

For Indiana maps, I use this link.

For some of the sites, you can substitute your state name in the link.

Known Maps of Indiana Counties. ---Please add to thread if you have others not listed

Adams Co 1876, 1900, 1908, 1910, 1920, 192x 192x = 6 Volume County Maps. Publish date unknown, thought to be mid to late 1920s Allen Co 1860, 1876, 1880, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1907, 192x, 1924, 1935 Bartholomew Co 1876...

www.treasurenet.com

 

[angelito1]

Old Maps Online

The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

www.oldmapsonline.org

 

[Joseph2867]

Does anyone know any historic or old map websites?

To bring all the old maps for everyone | OldMapsOnline

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www.georeferencer.com

 

[Jamie Rullestad]

I recently found this:

Sanborn Maps | The Library of Congress

Search results 1 - 25 of 51367.

www.loc.gov

and this:

FIMo - How to Interpret Sanborn Maps - Historical Information Gatherers

DESCRIPTION AND UTILIZATION OF THE SANBORN MAP Compiled from the 1940 and 1953 Editions Edited by David Hodnefield The Sanborn Map Company currently is engaged in a long range program of conversion of standard size maps to the NEW REDUCED SIZE MAP, a one quarter size precise replica of the...

www.historicalinfo.com

 

[EEx]

David Rumsey. https://www.davidrumsey.com/

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

David Rumsey. https://www.davidrumsey.com/

David, welcome to Treasurenet. Nice blog with some nice reference materials. I use to deal in antique newspapers and maps years ago, Harpers Weekly Leslie's Weekly.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Welcome to Treasurenet David,from Arkansas.Thank you for that reference.

 

[thormchammer]

Digital Sanborn Maps

sanborn.umi.com

There is a research forum here with many threads on this topic. I’m researching the same stuff currently. Your local historical societies may have map libraries too. If you’re lucky, they may have even digitized some of them.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Digital Sanborn Maps

sanborn.umi.com

There is a research forum here with many threads on this topic. I’m researching the same stuff currently. Your local historical societies may have map libraries too. If you’re lucky, they may have even digitized some of them.

Thanks,Ill look into this.

 

[TriEye]

Census maps are useful too, I've found census maps for my area of Arkansas going back to 1900. They show the old roads and routes the census takers used to travel from house to house. Alot of the houses even have the owners name on the maps.

 

[Salura]

I LOVE Historicaerials "Viewer" https://historicaerials.com/viewer

There you can enter your area of interest/address and select an aerial map by date and a topographical map by date and compare them by using the "compare" feature and a transparency setting and slider.

The first time I used it was a little hard to see what I was doing, but once I understood, it has opened up the world to me.

 

[thormchammer]

Aerials are nice but I am looking for maps like he had of the specific regions with the foot trails and sites on em. I’ve only seen a few like that and they were in private collections of old families.

 

[TriEye]

I LOVE Historicaerials "Viewer" https://historicaerials.com/viewer

There you can enter your area of interest/address and select an aerial map by date and a topographical map by date and compare them by using the "compare" feature and a transparency setting and slider.

The first time I used it was a little hard to see what I was doing, but once I understood, it has opened up the world to me.

I've been using that one as well. It's awesome but those watermarks and the blurry resolution drive me crazy. I haven’t tried purchasing a map file from them yet, maybe the quality is a little better?

 

[Akronplacer]

I have a app on my phone called "old maps" it's a bit buggy but it's a good resource

 

[ARC]

Does anyone know any historic or old map websites?

Start here.

Home | Library of Congress

The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

www.loc.gov

 

[Gare]

Does anyone here subscribe to Historical map works ? Just wondering if there is a big benefit for subscribing ?