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Maps Map Collections in the State Archives. Archives Map Collection - A guide to Manuscript Group 11, which describes over 1,000 maps. The maps are grouped into seven sections: Colony and Commonwealth; Counties; Townships; Cities and Boroughs; Boundaries, Topography, Geology, Parks; Transportation (including Indian trails, roads and turnpikes, rivers and streams, canals, railroads, air routes ...
Apr 8, 2024 · This project includes recommended Pennsylvania historic maps and geospatial datasets from a period of 1800 to present organized by thematic categories of geographic names, landmarks, transportation, hydrography, municipal boundaries, land ownership, elevation, land use/land cover, and remote sensing.
- Heather Ross
- 2015
Based on the Historical Maps of Pennsylvania website, links were added to freely available scans from the Library of Congress, the David Rumsey Collection, Penn State University Libraries, the Pennsylvania State Archives, the Free Library of Philadelphia and others.
- Online Resources
- Internet Sources
- Printed Sources
- Atlases
- Maps Showing County Boundaries
- City Ward Maps
The David Rumsey Map Collection contains 306 Pennsylvania maps.To see the progression of Pennsylvania county borders over time, see the PA Genweb Project's rendition of Department of Internal Affairs. Thomas A. Logue, secretary. Genealogical Maps of the counti...Ancestor Tracks has posted free, downloadable 19th-century landowner maps and atlases for about 85% of all the counties of PA and will eventually post at least one landowner map or atlas for every...The Pennsylvania State Library has an excellent collection of maps and county atlases for almost all counties. Most of these atlases were published from 1850 to 1880. You can write to the library to order a map for a particular town or county. A helpful guide to the holdings at the State Archives is Martha L. Simonetti, comp., Donald H. Kent and Ha...
The FamilySearch Library has many maps of Pennsylvania. Atlases for the years 1790, 1810, 1823, 1838, 1857, 1862, 1878, 1884, and 1917 on FS Library film 2083 Another useful atlas is H.F. Walling and O.W. Gray, Historical Topographical Atlas of the State of Pennsylvania (1872; reprint, Knightstown, Indiana: Bookmark, 1977. FS Catalog book 974.8 E3w...
Long, John H., ed. Pennsylvania: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996. FS Catalog book 974.8 E3p Long, John H., ed. Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980. Vol. 1, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1984. FS Cat...
Wards were civil subdivisions of cities that divided services such as police, fire and rescue, utilities, and voting. Ward maps can be helpful when using census records. See Ward Maps of United States Cities: Microfilm Reproduction of 232 Maps Described in Ward Maps of United States Cities. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, [1975?]. FS Librar...
Journey back in time with 6,708 historical maps of Pennsylvania, dating from 1888 to present day. Explore and discover the history of Pennsylvania through detailed topographic maps, featuring cities, landmarks, and geographical changes.
May 7, 2024 · The following online map collections include maps and views of Pennsylvania cities, battlefields, and geography. Explore each collection using the search box on the upper-right. Type in Gettysburg , Harrisburg , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , and other city or town names to view related items.
Overview. Pennsylvania historic base map layers are a set of historic maps and geospatial datasets intended to collectively provide comprehensive thematic and temporal coverage of the state for the period between 1800 and the present day.
