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1895 U.S. Atlas - Tennessee

Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

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 - 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.

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.

Cherokee Country. East Tennessee. 1762 Map. TNGenWeb Project (TNGenNet)

A Draught of the Cherokee Country, On the West Side of the Twenty four Mountains, commonly called Over the Hills; Taken by Henry Timberlake, when he was in that Country in March 1762. Likewise the Names of the Principal or Headmen of each Town and what Number of Fighting Men they send to War. This is a map of Cherokee towns along the Tennessee River, drawn in 1762 and published in Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake in 1765. Cherokee towns include Tellassee, Chilhowey, Halfway Town, Settacoo, Chote the Metropolis, Tennessee, Toqua, Tommotley, Toskegee, and Mialoquo or the Great Island. The site of Fort Loudon is also included.

Clickable Map (Image Map) of the Three Grand Divisions of Tennessee

From the TNGenWeb Project.

Color Landform Atlas: Tennessee

Including a map of counties and a map for 1895.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Tennessee ^FREE

This free collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps from around the world. The collection dates from about 1700 to the 1950s. There are now more than 48,000 items online, with new additions added regularly.

FamilySearch Wiki - Tennessee Maps

Genealogical Fact Sheets about Tennessee Counties

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

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

Geology.com - Tennessee Lake Map, River Map and Water Resources

Note the waterways displayed on a map with county boundaries. Migration paths from county to county can often be traced along these waterways.

Historic Tennessee County Maps

A free collection of individual historic county maps of all 95 Tennessee Counties. These maps are helpful in locating numerous small, early settlements that have long ago disappeared. All maps in this collection are over 100 years old.

Historical Maps of Tennessee

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

Introduction to Tennessee Land History

Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.

Library of Congress - Panoramic Maps - Tennessee

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

List of former United States counties - Tennessee (Wikipedia)

Map Geeks - State & County Maps of Tennessee