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• 1895 U.S. Atlas

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

• A map of the United States exhibiting post roads & distances : the first sheet comprehending the nine northern states, with parts of Virginia and the territory north of Ohio (1796)

  Map of the United States exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties, ports of entry and delivery for foreign vessels, and the principal rivers.

• Agricultural maps in the National Archives of the United States, ca. 1860-1930 (Hathi Trust)

• American Panorama - An Atlas of United States History

  American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.

• Ancestry Groups in the United States - Maps

• Ancestry Wiki - United States County Lists

• 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.

• Ancestry.com - U.S. Gazetteer, 1854 $

  Original source: Baldwin, Thomas. New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1854. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000 $

  Original source: Historic Map Works LLC, Portland, Maine. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• 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

• Anyplace America

  Lists over 1 million different geographical features in America. Search and print free topographic maps by geographical feature, latitude/longitude, elevation, zip code, or nearest city.

• 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

• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

  Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data.

• Atlas of the United States

  From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

• 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)

• Bradley's map of the United States (1804)

  Map of the United States : exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connexions & distances of the post-offices, stage roads, counties & principal rivers /

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States