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Maps of Vermont
Vermont Maps are generally an important piece of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor resided. Due to the fact Vermont political borders often changed, historic maps are generally significant in helping you find out the precise specific location of your ancestor's hometown, exactly what land they owned, just who his or her neighbors had been, and a lot more.
Vermont Maps often tend to be an excellent source for how to get started with your research, since they give considerably valuable information and facts quickly. Vermont Maps can be a major resource of significant amounts of information and facts on family history.
There are many excellent old maps of Vermont that can help with genealogical research. These maps can be used to retrace the residences and various steps taken by any ancestors who lived in Vermont. In fact, that process is fairly easy because of the relatively low population of the state.
The Vermont Atlas and Gazetteer is an excellent choice for both travel and research. Its maps list road surfaces, cemeteries, transportation routes, town divisions and even building locations (in older editions). The Vermont Road Atlas and Guide can also be a great Vermont map and information resource.
Another excellent map resource is the Beers Atlas. It lists owners and structures in each county in the late 1800s. Tuttle Publishing has reissued the county editions in their original forms. Also, several Windsor maps are still available in printed form. However, the Vermont Historical Society and other research libraries in the state hold the entire Beers Atlas series on file.
Town lotting maps are full of valuable genealogical data. Each town's land was split into numbered lots during the granting process. Families can be found and relationships to the community and to close neighbors can be determined using the lot numbers or the names of the original proprietors, which are listed in multiple land descriptions and records. The Vermont Public Records Division, the Vermont Historical Society, various town offices, and other agencies across the state have lot maps available for researchers to look at.
Vermont County Formation Map
(Vermont maps made with the use AniMap Plus 3.0 & with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)
Vermont 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 Vermont and Vermont counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Vermont maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Vermont.
- 1795 Map of Vermont
- 1804 Vermont Atlas Map
- 1814 Map of Vermont
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of Vermont
- 1827 Map of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
- 1836 Atlas Map Of New Hampshire & Vermont
- 1845 New Hampshire and Vermont Map
- 1856 Vermont Map
- 1880 County and township map of the states of New Hampshire and Vermont
Vermont Map Description & Links
- Vermont Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Vermont Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
- Vermont Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Historical Maps of Vermont (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.
- Vermont Maps Description (ancestry.com) from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Vermont Map Books (amazon.com)
