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Minnesota Antique Maps & Atlases

See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Maps & 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 the Minnesota and Minnesota counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Minnesota maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Minnesota.

Images are between 1 meg and 5 megs in size so allow a few moments to load if you are using a dial-up connection. Disclaimer: All Minnesota 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

Minnesota Maps

• 1856 Minnesota Atlas Map - Minnesota extends from Lake Superior to the Missouri River (the middle of the present day Dakotas). Proposed route of the Pacific Railroad shown.
• 1866 Sketch of the Public Surveys in the State of Minnesota - The "6 mile limits" are shown in pink. The seat of the Surveyor General's Office is shown in green.
• 1880 County map of Minnesota. - Shows settlements, rivers, railroads, etc. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.

Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers - Maps are an invaluable part of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because political boundaries often changed, historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor's hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and more.

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

The Minnesota Highway Department has prepared a seriesof 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. Paper copies of these maps can be obtained at Mn/DOT's Map and Manual Sales

To View the Minnesota 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. If you order an image they are printed at the highest resolution. (Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so loading may be slow if using a dial-up connection). PLEASE READ!! These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format. 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 Arkansas Maps are Free to Download

Minnesota Map Description & Links

A. T. Andreas, An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota (Chicago: the author, 1874) was the first county atlas of Minnesota. It includes the county maps, cities and townships, illustrations of private homes and businesses in the state, portrait sketches of important citizens, and statistical information. The original atlas is quite scarce, with the only existing copies sometimes available through dealers of rare books. It has, however, been republished as Winona County Historical Society’s Atlas of the State of Minnesota, Andreas, 1874 (Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1976), providing an excellent genealogical reference tool. A companion to it is Paul J. Ostendorf’s Every Person’s Name Index to An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota (Winona, Minn.: St. Mary’s College, 1979).

County atlases for Minnesota include maps for the respective county and for townships within that county. The names of property owners are frequently included on these maps. The Minnesota Historical Society has microfilmed many of these atlases, which makes them accessible on interlibrary loan.

Library of Congress Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress; Plans of North American Cities and Towns Produced by the Sanborn Map Company (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1981) states that the earliest map of this type for Minnesota is for 1884. There is, however, a Sanborn map for the city of St. Paul for 1875; this map is located at the map library of the Minnesota Historical Society.

The map collection of the Minnesota Historical Society consists of over 35,000 individual maps and 1,300 atlases, the majority of these for Minnesota and the Midwest. The society is a five-state regional depository for the U.S. Geological Survey maps. It has extensive collections of Minnesota territory and state maps, county and city maps, and fire insurance maps of over 950 Minnesota towns and cities. There are random maps and plat maps in the county records at the Minnesota Historical Society Research Center. The map library of the Wilson Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, is an outstanding cartographic repository, not restricted to Minnesota. It includes worldwide maps and associated material. For further information, see the following references:

Treude, Mai. Windows to the Past: A Bibliography of Minnesota County Atlases. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 1980.

Upham, Warren. Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. 1920. Reprint. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1969. This is also online at <http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham>.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation, Room B-20, St. Paul, MN 55155, provides a series of current state, county, and city maps.

Below is a list of online resources for Minnesota Maps. Email us with websites containing Minnesota Maps by clicking the link below:

• Submit a website for Minnesota Maps
• U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918
• Minnesota County Subdivision Outline Map and County Location Index
• Minnesota USGenWeb Archives Digital Map Library
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Minnesota Maps
• Minnesota Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers - Maps are an invaluable part of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because political boundaries often changed, historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor's hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and more.
• Minnesota Map Books at Amazon.com

On-Site County Court Records Search - Find nearly any Minnesota court record online!