Maps of Georgia

State Antique Maps & Atlases  •  State D.O.T. County Highway Maps  •  State Map Description & Links

Georgia Maps tend to be an very helpful piece of family history research, particularly if you live faraway from where your ancestor resided. Due to the fact Georgia political boundaries oftentimes changed, historic maps are significant in assisting you uncover the exact specific location of your ancestor's hometown, what land they owned, just who their neighbors ended up being, and much more.

Georgia Maps generally are likely to be an outstanding reference for getting started with your research, since they provide you with significantly valuable information and facts quickly. Georgia Maps are usually a major source of considerable amounts of information and facts on family history.

One of the best ways to trace colonial ancestors is to use early maps of Georgia. Maps showing militia districts and land lottery information can be purchased from the Georgia Archives. The Georgia Archives is also home to a large collection of detailed count and state maps. The collection contains over 30,000 documents. The Map Room, Georgia Department of Transportation offers modern city and county maps for a small fee.

Georgia County Formation Map

(Georgia maps made with the use AniMap Plus 3.0 & with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)

Georgia 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 Georgia and Georgia counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Georgia maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Georgia.

Disclaimer: All Georgia maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution.Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Georgia County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

The Georgia 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.

These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format (Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so loading may be slow if using a dial-up connection). The main use of these are the locations of all known cemeteries in a county and of course the various roads and church locations. These Maps are Free to Download

Georgia Map Description & Links

  • Georgia Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
  • Georgia Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
  • Georgia Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
  • District Plats of Survey  (sos.state.ga.us) Original surveys of land districts in counties made prior to distribution of land by lottery, 1805-1833, plus resurveys or renewed surveys of districts. These records are from Record Group 003-03-024, Surveyor General -- Survey Records -- District Plats of Survey.
  • Historic Maps  (sos.state.ga.us) The Historic Map File consists of maps focusing on Georgia collected by the Office of Surveyor General. They include maps of the State of Georgia, Georgia towns, and of the southeastern United States, dating from the 1740s. In addition to illustrating Georgia's growth, the maps show how the state's boundaries have changed over the years.
  • County Maps  (sos.state.ga.us) The County Map File consists of maps of Georgia's 161 (now 159) counties collected by the Office of Surveyor General. Many of the maps in this collection were produced under the direction of the state between 1866 - 1935, including those created by Acts of the General Assembly and the State Highway Department; some maps were created in conjunction with the United States Post Office Department and the Department of Agriculture. The several types of county maps show cities, towns, roads and highways, watercourses, and other geographic and topographic features.
  • Headright and Bounty Plats of Survey, 1783-1909  (sos.state.ga.us) Original plats of survey for headright and bounty land plats. The documents in this collection are from RG 3-3-26, Surveyor General – Headright and Lottery Loose Plat File.
  • U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
  • Historical Maps of Georgia (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.
  • Map of Colonial Georgia, 1773–1777 (georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu)
  • University of Georgia Rare Map Collection (libs.uga.edu)
  • University of Alabama Historic Map Archive (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.
  • Georgia Map Books (amazon.com)
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