Alabama County Maps and Atlases

Several books of Alabama locations, place-names, boundaries, and maps exist. The most important are discussed in Robert S. Davis, Tracing Your Alabama Past . Changes in county boundaries are shown in detail on modern county maps in Peggy Tuck Sinko, Alabama: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Alabama). Volume 1 of W. Craig Remington and Thomas J. Kallsen, Historical Atlas of Alabama (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, Department of Geography, 1997) locates historical sites on modern maps.

All of Alabama has been mapped in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Alabama . These topographic quadrangle maps show selected man-made and natural features as well as the shape and elevation of features. Features include state, county, and municipal boundary lines; townships, ranges, roads, railroads, and buildings; and mountains, valleys, streams, and rivers. The earliest survey maps for Alabama are dated from 1901. Modern maps are indexed in volume 4 of Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America: National Edition (Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1991) and at the USGS website.

Another important series of maps for incorporated municipalities is the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. These maps, dating from 1884 to 1950, include 110 Alabama communities. The maps indicate street names, property boundaries, building use, and, in some cases, property owners. Originals are available in the Library of Congress and in the University of Alabama Library. They were microfilmed (twelve reels) in 1982 by Chadwyck-Healy of Alexandria, Virginia.

Sara Elizabeth Mason’s bibliography, A list of nineteenth century maps of the State of Alabama (Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library, 1973) is very helpful in identifying and locating early Alabama maps. The list includes the holdings of the library of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Auburn
University in Auburn, the University of Alabama, Samford University, Mobile Public Library, and Birmingham Public Library . Descriptive annotations as well as detailed physical descriptions add to the usefulness of the list.

The Rucker Agee Map Collection, a privately acquired donation at the Birmingham Public Library, is an incomparable collection of maps documenting the cartographic history of the southeast and in particular Alabama.

Rotating Formation Alabama Boundary County Maps

(Maps made with the use AniMap Plus County Boundary Historical AniMap 3.0 and with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)

County Formation years
1799	1800	1803	1804	1807	1808	1809	1810	1811	1812	1813	1814	1815	1816
1817	1818	1819	1820	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831
1832	1833	1834	1837	1839	1840	1841	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1850
1852	1854	1858	1860	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875
1876	1877	1879	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1889	1890	1893	1894	1895	1897
1898	1899	1903	1906	1907	1915	1923	1931	1932	1943	1953	1976	1980

Map Abbreviations
unorg. = unorganized g. = gained w. = with fr. = from atmt. = attachment exch = exchanged nca.= non county area ch. = changed Au - Autauga Bal - Baldwin Bar - Barbour Bi - Bibb Bl - Blount Bul - Bullock But - Butler	Cal - Calhoun Cha - Chambers Che - Cherokee Chi - Chilton Cho - Choctaw Cle - Cleburne Clk - Clarke Cly - Clay Cof - Coffee Col - Colbert Con - Conecuh Coo - Coosa Cov - Covington Cr - Crenshaw Cu - Cullman	DK - De Kalb Dle - Dale Dls - Dallas El - Elmore Es - Escambia Et - Etowah Fa - Fayette Fr - Franklin Ge - Geneva Gr - Greene Hal - Hale He - Henry Ho - Houston Ja - Jackson Je - Jefferson	Lam - Lamar Lau - Lauderdale Law - Lawrence Lee - Lee Li - Limestone Lo - Lowndes Mac - Macon Mad - Madison Mgo - Marengo Mob - Mobile Mor - Morgan Mrn - Marion Mro - Monroe Msl - Marshall Mty - Montgomery	Pe - Perry Pic - Pickens Pik - Pike Ra - Randolph Ru - Russell SC - St. Clair Sh - Shelby Su - Sumter Tld - Talladega Tlp - Tallapoosa Tu - Tuscaloosa Wal - Walker Was - Washington Wil - Wilcox Win - Winston

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

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

The Alabama 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. The maps are available for a nominal fee from the Alabama Highway Department, Bureau of Planning and Programming, Montgomery, AL 36130.

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Alabama Atlases

Disclaimer: All maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution

These are scanned from the original copies so you can see the states and counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in North America.

All formats are pdf. Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so allow a few moments to load if you are using a dial-up connection. It may take up to 6 months to complete the website for all years available so check back often for daily updates. See Disclaimer Below.


1822 Alabama	1836 Alabama	1845 Alabama	1856 Alabama


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