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	Points of Interest Browse Find maps by browsing millions of points of interest within our collection including buildings, cemeteries, churches, schools, and much more.

Cadastral Maps The largest online collection of American maps showing property owner names, contemporary histories, town, and county plans. A visual trip back in time.	Directories View the text searchable collection of directories listing residential names and occupations, yearbooks, phonebooks, and other historical books.
Illustrations Contemporary views of American buildings, towns, and people of prominence. Searchable by both family and business names.	Antiquarian Maps A global collection of antiquarian maps detailing five centuries of exploration, the result of an exclusive arrangement with the Osher Map Library.

Location Search Search for maps of towns, cities, and counties by name and state.	Family Name Search Search illustrations and portraits by entering family and business names.
Address/GPS Search Browse a list of all maps associated with a modern street address or by the latitude / longitude coordinates from your handheld GPS device.	Geocode A visual comparison of our collection's historical maps against modern day satellite imagery.

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About HistoricMapWorks.com

Drawing on the world's most extensive collection of American land ownership maps, it is now easier than ever to research the history of almost any location. The website presently contains 480,623 digital maps and views from the 19th and early 20th centuries searchable by name and geographic location. In many American locations, you can search by modern address to access many temporal layers spanning decades of change and growth. Each layer, a distinct slice of time, describes that area's development visually and contextually.

Viewable alongside our ever growing collection of American maps are the antiquarian World maps in our Osher Map Library Collection which includes works from 500+ years of history's most notable cartographers. A few of the more recognizable names from the collection include: Waldseemuller, Ortelius, Mercator, Hondius, Blaeu, Visscher, Coronelli, Speed, Bellin, and Des Barres. We now offer our members the ability to print maps at home, download images from our maps and overlay the geocode boundaries of many of our cadastral maps on top of a modern world map.

Historic Map Works Library Edition

Would you like free premium access to the maps on this site including free prints, free downloads, and free address lookup?

       

Ask your local public library or university if they subscribe to Historic Map Works Library Edition, distributed by ProQuest.

Review of Historic Map Works Library Edition from this November's Library Journal.