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Historical Maps of Iowa

Digitized collection of selected map holdings from several sources including the University of Alabama Map Library.

Iowa Counties Historic Atlases - The University of Iowa Libraries

County atlases from the late 1800s and early 1900s are currently being digitized from the collections of the University of Iowa Libraries Map Collection and The State Historical Society Library, Iowa City. Nearly all of Iowa's 99 counties are available in the digital collection, and some are available via the Library of Congress.

Iowa Ghost Towns

This site lists towns in Iowa that are extinct or just not what they once were in their prime.

Keokuk County, Iowa 1861 Maps

Keokuk County, Iowa 1875 Map

Library of Congress - Panoramic Maps - Iowa

Library of Congress - Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 - Iowa

Library of Congress - Sanborn Maps - Iowa

The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000. The online collection now features maps published prior to 1900. The states available include Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Alaska is also online, with maps published through the early 1960s. By 2020, all the states will be online, showing maps from the late 1880s through the early 1960s.

List of former United States counties - Iowa (Wikipedia)

Mahaska County, Iowa 1875 Map

Map Geeks - State & County Maps of Iowa

Map of Iowa for 1922 from from Standard Atlas of Wapello County Iowa compiled and published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, Ill.

MAPofUS.org - Iowa Maps and Atlases

Origin and Naming of Iowa Counties

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

From The University of Texas at Austin.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Iowa

From the University of Iowa Libraries, Map Collection.

U.S. Census Bureau - Iowa County Outline Map

USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library

Wapello County 1922 Plat Maps

Wapello County, Iowa 1875 Map