USGS Historical Map Browser

[AndyHall]

The U.S. Geological Survey has an historical map browser here:

http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/

Click an area on the map or type in the name of a location, and the server will display a list of archived maps covering that area in a ribbon along the bottom of the page. Click one and it will be superimposed on the modern map. You can adjust the transparency of the historic map to compare features, or download a high-res PDF as a ZIP file for use on your own computer.

I haven't found any maps that go back before the 1880s, but still this is a very useful tool to see how a given location has changed over the years.

Enjoy!

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Thanks.
Too cool.
And now I have yet another bookmark.

 

[Barnesville Blues]

Thanks Andy,

I have been looking for a topographical map of the Beech Grove/Hoover's Gap area of Tennessee that was done prior to the Construction of the interstate. I have been trying to map the positions of the units of Bate's Brigade during the Battle of Hoover's Gap using the land marks Bate mentions in his Report. Most of the landmarks are nothing but hills.

 

[timk]

Really cool!!

 

[nitrofd]

Hey andy, that site is pretty interesting, I also have a new bookmark but I haven't really figured it out yet.working on it though

 

[MRB1863]

Thanks.
Too cool.
And now I have yet another bookmark.

7th,
Exactly what I would have posted if I had not seen your post. You beat me to it!

 

[John Hartwell]

There is also the commercial Historic Mapworks, where there are thousands of old maps and "bird's eye" views in very high definition, which you can examine free online with proprietary watermark, or purchase as prints or downloads without watermark. You can enlarge details of them up to full size. Here's Georgia, 1864:
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/9104/Georgia 1864 State Map/