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HISTORICAL COUNTY LINES

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Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from the Newberry Library. Editor. Download GIS data, GoogleEarth file, and PDF files for each State. Free s/w for GIS data:here.
Family History 101
American Indian Territorial Losses - <1850-1890. Maps.com.
Animated presentation of the Formation of the 48 contiguous states by Ed Stephan. Click "back" to return here. Ed's animation page.
Animated presentation of the Formation of the counties in the 48 contiguous states by Ed Stephan. Click "back" to return here.
U.S. territorial expansion. These maps are found at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. There are 13 maps in this series covering from 1775 to the present. Don't overlook other historical maps at this site that might relate to part of your family's history.
United States of America, by H.S. Tanner, 1834, from University of Connecticut Library. Existing county lines are highly visible.
- Mini-version of map 34k.
- MrSid version of map16.2mb. Works with IE if ExpressView plug-in installed. No luck so far with Firefox.
An old file directory of color state maps showing counties from the US Census Bureau. These are sometimes useful in personal genealogy atlases. Files in all lower case are the map images of primary interest. Those in upper case are state flags. Some will recall these as among the first state/county maps available on the Internet.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
AniMap software from Gold Bug. Source of many of the maps linked from this website. Recommended.
SiteFinder Online from Gold Bug (above). Great for old town names, old post offices, Native American village sites. Many of the sites on this map came from AniMap SiteFinder.
Global Gazetteer of the American Revolution. "Where (Almost) Everything Happened in the War of American Independence, World-wide".
Links to other websites by John Robertson containing historical maps.

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