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Maps of Virginia
State Antique Maps & Atlases • State Map Description & Links • Further Reading
Virginia Maps are an crucial piece of family history research, particularly in case you live faraway from where your ancestor lived. Because Virginia political boundaries sometimes changed, historic maps are important in helping you discover the exact specific location of your ancestor's home, what land they owned, just who their neighbors ended up being, and much more.
Virginia Maps typically are likely to be an excellent resource for getting started with your own research, because they give significantly important information and facts quickly. Virginia Maps can be a major resource of considerable amounts of information and facts on family history.
In the 1500s the first Virginia maps, were made. More and more maps, gazetteers, and atlases have been created over the years since then. The Library of Virginia collection consists of in excess of 40,000 maps and is also managed online and also also links to the Map Collection Index. See also Using the Map Collection in the Archives of The Library of Virginia. The number of easily available maps of Virginia is rather lengthy. Maps displaying watercourses are essential for tracking down land grants and property referred to in deeds. Pinpointing no longer used place-names furthermore troubles researchers.
Virginia County Formation Map
Virginia Antique Maps & Atlases
See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.
These are scanned from the original copies so you can see Virginia and Virginia counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Virginia maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Virginia.
- 1795 Map of Virginia
- 1804 Virginia Map
- 1814 Atlas of Virginia
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of District of Columbia
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of Virginia
- 1827 Map of Virginia and Maryland (inset) Plan of Washington City & Georgetown
- 1836 A New Atlas Map Of Virginia With Its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes
- 1845 Virginia Atlas Map
- 1856 Virginia Atlas Map. (with) two inset maps: Richmond Henrico County, Manchester and Springhill Chesterfield Co.; Norfolk, Portsmouth And Gosport
- 1880 County map of Virginia and West Virginia
Virginia Map Description & Links
- Virginia Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Virginia Civil War Maps - Maps, charts, and atlases depicting battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications in Virginia during the Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Virginia Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
- Virginia Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Historical Maps of Virginia (alabamamaps.ua.edu)
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (memory.loc.gov) extensive selection from the Library of Congress Map Collections, focusing on Americana and cartographic treasures.
- Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895 (amazon.com)
- Maps Relating to Virginia in the Virginia State Library and other Departments of the Commonwealth (amazon.com)
- Index of Kentucky & Virginia maps, 1562 to 1900 (amazon.com)
- Map collection of The Library of Virginia (lva.virginia.gov)
Further Reading
- Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development (2000; Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. McKee) records the finding, settlement and growths of the commonwealth as a result of the introduction of European explorers to the modern state and consists of 187 maps, quite a few in several plates, making it an important resource for all genealogists.
- A Description of the Country: Virginia’s Cartographers and Their Maps, 1607–1881 (1975; Eugene Michael Sanchez-Saavedra) offers a brief history of Virginia’s cartographic trends and early maps.
- Index of Kentucky & Virginia maps, 1562 to 1900 (1976; James W. Sames III, comp.), indexes the maps on file at the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society.
- Maps Relating to Virginia: In the Virginia State Library and Other Departments of the Commonwealth, with the 17th and 18th Century Atlas-maps in the Library of Congress (reprint; 1989; Earl Gregg Swem, comp.) describes the Library of Virginia's map collection and additionally points out maps in other repositories
- Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895 (1987; Michael F. Doran) points out changing boundaries of Virginia’s counties
- A Historical Atlas of Colonial Virginia (1978; John S. Hale)
- Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer (Virginia Atlas & Gazeteer) (DeLorme Mapping Co., 2000)
- A Map of Virginia and Maryland (1676. Reprint. Ithaca, N.Y.: Historic Urban Plans, n.d.)
- Carte de la Virginie et Maryland (1755. Reprint. Fry, Josue, and Pierre Jefferson)
- John Smith’s Map of Virginia with a Brief Account of Its History. (1981; McCrary, Ben C.)
- The John Henry County Map of Virginia, 1770 (1977; Wright, Louis B.)
- Virginia Post Offices, 1798– 1859 (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 81 (1973): 49–97)
- Virginia place names: Derivations, historical uses (1969, by Hanson, Raus McDill.)
- A List of Places Included in 19th Century Virginia Directories (1960. by Hummel, Ray O., Jr., ed).
- A new and comprehensive gazetteer of Virginia, and the District of Columbia (1835 by Martin, Joseph)
- Virginia Map Books (amazon.com)
