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Maps of Michigan
Michigan Maps are an invaluable element of genealogy and family tree research, especially in the event you live faraway from where your ancestor was living. Because Michigan political borders sometimes changed, historic maps are generally important in helping you find out the precise location of your ancestor's home, just what land they owned, just who their neighbors ended up being, and a lot more.
Michigan Maps generally tend to be an excellent source for getting started with your research, given that they provide considerably useful information and facts immediately. Michigan Maps can be a major resource of significant amounts of information on family history.
Michigan County Formation Map
Michigan 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 Michigan and Michigan counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Michigan maps years (not all) have cities railroads P.O. locations township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Michigan.
- 1822 Geographical Historical And Statistical Map Of Michigan Territory
- 1827 Map of the States of Ohio Indiana & Illinois and Part of the Michigan Territory
- 1836 Map Of Michigan with its Canals Roads & Distances
- 1845 Michigan Map
- 1856 Michigan Map
- 1856 Lake Superior And The Northern Part Of Michigan
- 1866 Sketch of the Public Surveys in Michigan
- 1880 County and township map of the states of Michigan and Wisconsin
- 1880 Plan of Detroit
Michigan County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps
The Michigan Highway Department has prepared a series of county road maps. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps. In addition to roads and boundaries these maps include rural communities churches and cemeteries.
To View the Map: Just click the Image to view the map online. In order to make the Image size as small as possible they were save on the lowest resolution.
Michigan Map Description & Links
- Michigan Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Michigan Maps Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com) Maps are an invaluable part of family history research especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because political boundaries often changed historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor's hometown what land they owned who their neighbors were and more.
- USGenWeb Archives Michigan Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Michigan Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (loc.gov) extensive selection from the Library of Congress Map Collections focusing on Americana and cartographic treasures.
- Michigan Gazetteer 1839 (search.ancestry.com)
- U.S. Indexed County Land Ownership Maps 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Historical Maps of Michigan (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.
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Bibliography of the printed maps of Michigan 1804-1880 : with a series of over one hundred reproductions of maps constituting (search.ancestry.com)
- Michigan Map Books (amazon.com)
