Pittsburg County Genealogical and Historical Society, Inc.
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31 Land Records & Maps

 

Training Tool

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Process/Presentation

Presentation
National Archives Links to cartography, gazetteers, and maps.
 
 
Topview
 
 

Podcast/Training Courses

Ancestry - Maps: A Path to Your Ancestors - 2012
Ancestry - World Atlas of Genetic Ancestry - 2012
Plat Map - 2008
How to Overlay Plat Maps on Google Earth - 2013
An Introduction to TopoView 2015
 
 

Gazetteer

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® Online
           

Wiki/URL

Cyndi's List
Plat Map
Lot and block survey system
About Land Records
 
 
 

BlogsHandouts

Using Maps in Genealogy
PDF
Maps n More OK Genweb
General Land Office Primer
PDF
US Military Bounty Land Warrants
Land Records Research Guide
American Indian Land Research Guide
Public Lands - how to plot property on Orginal township/range survey from BLM
10 Cool Things You Can Learn from Deeds
Locating Land Records on the BLM's General Land Office Records Website
Historic Land Ownership Maps and Atlases Online
Digging for Deeds
Land Records Online
Timeline of U.S. Public Land Acts
 

Books

Lloyd Bockstruck’s, Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments
           

The Tobucksy News

What is a Plat Map - 2012 September - Vol. 29 #3
Family History and Maps - 2013 May - Vol. 29 #2
Pittsburg County Map prior to lake Eufaula - 2007 January - Vol. 24 #1
Pittsburg County Map Locations - 2006 September - Vol. 22 #3
State of Oklahoma Map - 2005 May - Vol. 22 #2
   

Family Tree Magazine

Land Records January 2014 page 33
           

Maps

USGS
David Rumsey
Sanborn in PCGHS library - need to visit to use
OHS
Lib of Congress
MapWorks - some are free
10,000 Maps in the Oklahoma Historical Society
 
David Rumsey Map Collection
Maps of United States Indians by State
 
       

For fee Databases

Free at Tulsa Library Getting started with HistoryGeo
Mark Lowe Genealogy Subscription Databases
         

Perryville

1850
           

Pittsburg County

CHOCTAW AREA 1895
Oklahoma Maps from 1915 Atlas
1972 USGS Maps of Counties in Oklahoma
Modern Maps
Matrix
Coal map of the McAlester District, Pittsburg and Latimer Counties, Oklahoma
From Life and Times of the Choctaw Orginal Enrollees
2015 Map
Pittsburg
 
1978 McAlester UT
Cemeteries in Pittsburg Co. OK
Peabody GNIS Service - Oklahoma
Pittsburg Co. Quick Links
1915 RR
1972 USGS
Township
1950 Census ED map
#2 Mcalester specific list wards
   

Jefferson Highway

Jefferson Highway
           

Oklahoma/ Oklahoma Territory/Indian Territory

Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850
Indian Territory, Northern T …
1844
Exploration Book
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
A New Map of Texas Oregon an …
1846
Pocket Map
 
 

1856-66 Oklahoma Map

Book - Oklahoma - A history of the Sooner State by Edwin C. McReynolds

54-10052

p214 Great map

Room 1 PCGHS Library

Google Books

Books - Oklahoma - Its Origins and Development by Victor E. Harlow 1949

p 176 Map Indian Country during the civil war - Good for Battles

World Cat

Google Books

PCGHS Library - 5th edition Room 1

Old
Territory of Louisiana 1805 - 1812
Wikipedia
Missouri Territory Before Indian Territory 1812
Wikipedia
1819 Territory of Arkansas Before Indian Territory
Wikipedia
Need 1824 Indian Territory map
Civil war map with Native american key locations page 27
 
 
 
 
1857
Indian Territory 1834 - 1907
Wikipedia
Oklahoma: Consolidated Chronology of State and County Boundaries
1875
1881 Indian Territopry
1883
1885 1891
1885
 
1887
1889
1891
 
1892
1894
1895 Atlas
1898
#2 1898
1902
#2 1902
#3 1902
#4 1902 with townships
1903
#2 1903 Railroads
1904
1905 good Tobucksy County
#2 1905
1906
1909
1913 Highway road map
1913 Nat Archives
1914
1915 Atlas
Index to Post Offices
Index to Towns
Index to Townships
1919
1919 2
1920
1920 2
1920 3
1920 4
1922
OSU 1936 WPA Land Ownership Maps
1972 USGS Maps of Counties in Oklahoma
         
Maps 'n' More
Territorial Counties
         
Cemetary Maps - many in publication: "Graves moved for Lake Eufaula"
Oklahoma Department of Transportation Map Archive 1866-1953
Oklahoma 2014-2015 State Railroad Map
Tribal Jurisdictions in Oklahoma 2015
OSU Luna Library
9005 maps
Oklahoma Petroleum Information Center
Coal Mines 1979 takes time to down load - can be expanded
The Oklahoma State Archives
Not on-line
Oklahoma Maps UT
Newberry Oklahoma
Newberry Library Map collection - Oklahoma -
Tobucksy News Map
OSU Digital Serial Set back to 1703
My Genealogy Hound
Historic Oklahoma County and indian Territory Maps 1905 Choctaw Nation
Oklahoma 2015 maps

Changing US (county) Boundries

Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundries
Map of the 13 Original States
also includes Orginal english Grants 1606-1732
Free Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Library of Congress Sanborn Maps
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - Texas
Census scope
 
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805; …
Map of the Middle British Co …
1776
[Exploration Book, Geography
           

Native American

2014 National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair Day 2- Overview of American Indian Records and Resources on Archives.gov
Agenda
YouTube
State of Sequoyah
Sequoya
1850 Choctaw Nation
Source
OSU Choctaw Nation page 2 has Sequoya Maps
NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears 2
1900 Cherokee Country
Indian Land Cessions
Tribes
Interactive Time-Lapse Map
Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas,
Indian Terr
Native Indian Tribes
1836
1776
Teaching With Documents:
Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers' Enrollment Case File
Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs search on Maps
 

Black Americans

Slave Trade
How Slavery Expanded
         

German

Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT
Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire
Family search German Gazetteer
How to Use Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire 2012
Rhine River
Rhine River 2
Baden
Austrian
Kingdom of Prussia
Political Borders of Europe from 1519 to 2006
German migration routes
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT
1801 Baden
German Maps (Topographische Karte 1:25,000)
Karlsruhe
           

Pennsylvania

Sotzmann, Daniel Friedrich
Pennsylvania.
1797
National Atlas
Finley, Anthony
Pennsylvania.
1831
[Classical Atlas, World Atla …
Author Finley, Anthony
Full Title Pennsylvania. Philada. Published by A. Finley,


         

(West) Virginia

Hutchins, Thomas
The Western Parts of Virgini …
1778
Case Map
Lewis, Samuel; Arrowsmith, A …
Virginia.
1812
World Atlas
Carey, H. C.; Lea, I.
Map of Virginia.
1822
National Atlas
Colton, G.W.
Virginia.
1856
World Atlas
Appleton, D. & Co.
Map of Virginia, West Virgin …
1891
World Atlas
   

Ohio

Arrowsmith, Aaron; Lewis, Sa …
Ohio.
1812
World Atlas
Finley, Anthony
Ohio.
1831
[Classical Atlas, World Atla …
         

Illinois

Finley, Anthony
Illinois.
1831
[Classical Atlas, World Atla …
1833 Illinois
1895 Platt Book Pike county
ILLINOIS DIGITAL ARCHIVES
     

Indiana

Finley, Anthony
Indiana.
1831
[Classical Atlas, World Atla …
           

Kansas

Cram, George Franklin
New Rail Road & township map …
1869
Pocket Map
Asher & Adams
Kansas.
1874
National Atlas
         

Missouri

Finley, Anthony
Missouri.
1831
[Classical Atlas, World Atla …
           

New Jersey

Baker, Harriet E.
New jersey
1819
[Manuscript Map, National At

           

Texas

Bradford, Thomas G.
Texas.
1838
National Atlas
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
A New Map of Texas Oregon an …
1846
Pocket Map
Bartholomew, John; Black, Ad …
Texas, Part of New Mexico.
1856
National Atlas
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - Texas (1877-1922)
Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT
 
Texas General Land Office
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Eastern European

Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT
Also see: 05 Eastern European Ancestors - Lemko
         

Ireland

Ireland's History in Maps
           
               
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