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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I searched in vein looking for old highway/road maps for my area. I couldn't find anything.Then somehow I came across a antique railroad site. That gave not only railways,roads,but also churches,old farm houses,churches and schools. It's pretty hard to find the places that match with today,But if you look at the rivers and compare that to google earth, Then you can get a basic idea.BTW it took me 3 days to get earth to launch! First I had to have chrome,then my proxy ,etc! I hope this helps! I'm going out tomorrow for my first out of my land search so wish me luck!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Great idea. Good luck on your hunt.
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Rest in Peace
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Ever thought of checking old Plat information at the county courthouses in your area? That may at least have building info. I know from wife's family background that on the family farm, right in the front 20 field corner was a blacksmith's shop and across the road was the store. These buildings were there up until 1970's when they came down. Those only show up on land maps of the 40's and earlier. And yea, some amatuer idiot (brother-in-law) went half*** searching with a $80 used POS wand...did find a rusty horseshoe...i went into the barn and grabbed a couple really nice mule shoes without the rust!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you can overlook the obnoxious watermark plastered all over the maps, this might be a useful tool to view old aerial imagery and maps: https://www.historicaerials.com/viewerI think most areas in the US have aerial imagery on there from the 60s/70s or even earlier sometimes. Edited by Kefiroth
10/15/2017 5:31 pm
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New Member
United States
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I found loads of maps at my state college website. Most are printable JPEGs. Some dating back to 1600s. I'd just type "historical maps of [yourstate]" into your preferred internet search engine and sift through it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have in the past used web maps that have a modern overlay used on top of historical maps, pretty cool.
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Valued Member
United States
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I found a site "historicalmaps.com " That shows topo maps and roads from about 1875. I used it to locate old farm sites and roads that are no longer used. It included an small community that had been bought by the state to put in a reservoir. There was a store , a tannery, and about 10 houses ....all gone. Of course NYS wont give permission to go MDing there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
575 Posts |
You can go to the local town offices as they have old maps on file in cabinets or micro computer files. Good luck!
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Valued Member
United States
372 Posts |
A lot of Detector's users look at Old Sanborn Fire Maps for future area's goldnugget
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use the Library of Congress' website. Any map, any year range and they're free to print. In your case, which I've done for the dot on a map town I live in, the county historical society is the best source.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Old maps are great historical documents in their own right.
It would very useful if you are able digitally overlay the latest map of the same area, and get a combined print off that, and take it with you into the field for your on ground search. Google Maps could also be useful.
Would need to do some scale manipulation for the overlay print to make any sense.
Is there the equivalent of British Ordnance Survey Maps that cover the USA? For use in the UK, these maps are excellent for field searching. Ordnance Survey Maps cover the whole of the UK.
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