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Mississippi Department of Archives and History - Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi

Free historic maps of Mississippi web site is now available to researchers. The site references over 1,000 maps, 75% of which contain a high resolution image. Each map reference contains up to fourteen categories of information. They are: title, author, scale, situation date, publication date, type of map, features, comments, geographic coverage, repository, language, publisher, size, links to scanned images and color status. The data set is unique in that all natural and cultural features on a map are listed, along with the geographic area covered by the map. These and other data categories can be searched in combination with each other.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

From The University of Texas at Austin.

U.S. Census Bureau - Mississippi County Outline Map

USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library

Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS - Mississippi

Search the USGS Geographic Names Database. You can limit the search to a specific county in this state and search for any of the following features: airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods.