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United States -- Maps

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19th Century Maps by Children

Map collector and cartographer David Rumsey has done a fine public service by placing thousands of his own maps online over the past decade. In the past few years, he and his colleagues have introduced new additions to the site via their friendly and interesting blog. This particular addition features some two dozen remarkable maps created by children during the 19th century. Many of these old...

https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2010/1/7/19th-century-maps-...
Alabama Maps

Maintained by the Cartographic Research Laboratory at the University of Alabama, this collection of 3540 different scanned and digitized maps offers a valuable resource for persons doing research on the history of Alabama, or looking for contemporary thematic maps of the state. The historical maps of Alabama are divided into time periods ranging from 1803 to 1942, and can be enlarged to focus in...

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/index.html
American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850

Drawing on the holdings of the New York Public Library (in particular the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection), and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this online exhibit is devoted to offering a number of historically significant maps of the Mid-Atlantic region up to 1850. The site begins with a brief essay on the nature of the items featured on the site and continues with three...

http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/midatlantic/
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Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

The Birmingham Public Library has a marvelous trove of maps in their collection and this site is the perfect place to explore almost 1,000 cartographic gems. As might be expected, the maps housed here depict various sections of Alabama, along with maps and atlases from Europe, Africa, and other regions of the world. First-time visitors might start by giving close attention to the Persia sive...

https://bplonline.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p401...
Climate Atlas of the United States

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has published (for purchase) a new CD Atlas containing 737 color maps of climatic elements, such as temperature, precipitation, snow, wind, pressure, etc., of the contiguous US from 1961 to 1990. Five of these maps can be previewed at NOAA's online store: Annual Mean Daily Average Temperature, Total Precipitation, Snowfall, Sea Level...

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/nespls/olstore.prodspecific?prodnu...
Conservation and Environmental Maps

American Memory, the Library of Congress' "gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States," offers this gem of a site on exploration and land use in the US. These historic and recent maps will be of great interest to ecologists, as they show "changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas,...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/general-maps/about-this-coll...
David Rumsey Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection, which is provided by Cartography Associates, "contains to date over 7,180 maps online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials." The vast material provided for viewing and printing for personal use includes atlases, globes, books, maritime charts, and a great deal more. Because of the large number of pieces,...

https://www.davidrumsey.com/
Ecological Subregions of the United States

The electronic (interactive) version of a 1994 publication by the US Forest Service (USFS), this companion site is based on the National Hierarchical Framework of Ecological Units, designed to provide "a standardized method for classifying, mapping, and describing ecological units" in the US. Ecological Subregions of the United States, contains the biophysical descriptions for the color-coded...

https://www.fs.usda.gov/land/pubs/ecoregions/
Federal Township Plats of Illinois, 1804-1891

The passage of the Land Ordinance of 1785 created the rectangular survey system for the mapping and subsequent sale of the western public lands of the United States. In 1803, the first survey of the lands, which would later become the state of Illinois, began. After moving northwards from southern Illinois in 1806, the federal surveyors finished surveying the last townships in 1843, but for four...

https://idaillinois.org/digital/collection/IllinoisPlats/sea...
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Leventhal Map Center: Land Ownership Maps

The Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library has over 100,000 maps and they include renderings of British Palestine, West Africa in the 17th century, and many, many others. This corner of their collection brings together 122 maps that show land ownership in Boston, Pennsylvania, Haiti, and more. The maps of Boston are a real treat and they show the original Shawmut peninsula in 1645....

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections/commonwealt...
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