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Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

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

Great Lakes Counties: Consolidated Statistical Areas

A map of just the counties bordering on the Great Lakes.

Hayward's Gazetteer of the United States (1853)

Scanned images of all 862 pages of Hayward's Gazetteer of the United States (1853). An addition to this collection of free, public-domain gazetteers on this site.

Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy $

The world's largest collection of online US and world property ownership maps (over a quarter million, soon to be one half million) and atlases. See where you ancestors lived by going back in time with our maps. Illustrations, photographs, and city directories are searchable by surname.

Historic regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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.

Library of Congress - Railroad Maps, 1828-1900

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.

List of former United States counties (Wikipedia)

List of United States counties and county equivalents (Wikipedia)

Map Express

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

Map Your U.S. Research: A Workbook for Genealogists

By Dina C. Carson. This workbook is intended to help facilitate your locations-based research in the United States. Use the maps to see which counties you are researching at-a-glance. Then use the research notes pages to create a workable research plan. Take this handy workbook with you when you research as a reminder that county boundaries have changed over time. Even if your ancestors stayed in the same place, the county boundaries may have changed around them. Each state includes a list of all of the modern counties with their formation dates, the counties each was formed from, and the counties that were created from them. Often it is not a matter of whether there are records for your family, but discovering where they exist.

MAPofUS.org - Historical Atlases and Maps of U.S. and States

State page contains rotating animated maps showing all of the county boundary changes & all of the county boundaries for each census year for each year. Past and present maps of US are overlaid so that you can see the changes in county boundaries, downloadable County D.O.T. Maps, and state atlas maps.

Native Land

A map of land and locations for native peoples throughout the world. Once you click, a number of links will appear with different nation names. By clicking on those links, you will be taken to a page specifically about that nation, language, or treaty, where you can view some sources, give feedback, and learn a little more.

Office of Coast Survey - Historical Maps and Charts

The Project is managed by the Cartographic & Geospatial Technology Program of the Coast Survey Development Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Old Maps | Historical Maps | Antique Maps | Historic Maps | Wall Maps

Archival reproductions of historical maps. Specialize in a growing list of land ownership maps, of many rare and unique counties throughout the United States of America. From Maps of the Past, Inc.

Old Maps: Purveyors of Reproduction, Antique and Historic Maps, Antique Paintings and Prints

Reproductions of 17th Century maps of English counties, the provinces of Ireland and Wales, and of the rest of world including the East Coast of USA. This site also has interesting info on British and Irish Stately Homes, if your ancestor was well-to-do.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

From the University of Texas at Austin.

randymajors.com - County Lines on Google Maps

View present-day county boundaries on a searchable, fully interactive Google Map.