Map of Florida county boundaries and county seats
Maps of Florida are an vital part of ancestors and family history research, notably in the event you live faraway from where your ancestor resided. Because Florida political boundaries often changed, historic maps tend to be significant in helping you find out the precise location of your ancestor’s home, what land they owned, just who his or her neighbors had been, and a lot more.
Maps of Florida often have a tendency to be an outstanding reference for starting out with your own research, simply because they provide you with substantially useful information and facts immediately. Florida Maps can be a major resource of important amounts of details on family history.
Florida’s 10 largest cities are Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Port Saint Lucie and Pembroke Pines. Learn more about Historical Facts of Florida Counties.
The P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida Libraries in Gainesville owns one of the largest collections of Florida and Caribbean maps, and many of them are original prints or drawings. An online search is available of over 2,300 images from 1564 to 1926, which includes the Sanborn maps of Florida. See http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/fhmaps.html. The Florida Historical Society Library in Cocoa has many original maps from early-to-modern Florida, although they do not have an online catalog at this time. Some universities outside of Florida have excellent resources for maps on the Internet, such as University of Alabama, Cartographic Research Laboratory, at http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/florida/index.html; and University of Texas at Austin—Perry-Castañeda Library at www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/florida.html.
The PALMM World Map Collection at http://palmm.fcla.edu/map includes maps from the following contributors: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of North Florida, and the University of South Florida.
Sanborn maps, which date late 1800s to early 1900s, and other fire insurance maps should not be overlooked for urban areas. The Map Department, University of Florida Libraries (see above) has an excellent set of Sanborn original duplicate copies transferred from the Library of Congress. Many public and academic libraries now own the microfilm collection. Check the online catalogs or the reference department at local libraries.
Interactive Map of Florida County Formation History
Old Antique Atlases & Maps of Florida
- 1776 Coast Of West Florida and Louisiana…with the Bahama Islands
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Atlas Map Of Florida
- 1827 Map of Florida according to the Latest Authorities. The West Indies from the Best Authorities. Comparative Elevation of the Principal Mountains, Cities, &c. in North and South America
- 1836 Florida Atlas map (with) three inset maps: Pensacola, Tallahassee, Harbour of St. Augustine. Entered … 1833
- 1845 Florida Atlas Map
- 1856 Florida Atlas Map
- 1866 Map of the State of Florida
- 1880 County map of Florida. (with) Mobile
D.O.T. County Road and Highway Maps of Florida
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.
Florida Map Links
- Florida Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- Florida Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
(ancestry.com)
- Florida Maps – The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (lib.utexas.edu)
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918
- Historical Maps of Florida (alabamamaps.ua.edu)
- American Memory Map Collection: 1500-2004 (memory.loc.gov)
- Florida State and Regional Maps: 1500-1599 (5 maps), 1600-1699 (6 maps), 1700-1799 (59 maps), 1800-1849 (32 maps), 1850-1874 (44 maps), 1875-1899 (55 maps), 1900-Present (21 maps).
- PALMM Florida Map Collection (palmm.fcla.edu)
- P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida Libraries in Gainesville (web.uflib.ufl.edu)
- Florida USGenWeb Archives Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
- “A Chronology of Florida Post Offices”, 1993 by Bradbury, Alford G.
- “Provisional Historical Gazetteer with Locational Notes on Florida Colonial Communities”, 1974 by Cline, Howard F. .
- “Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Florida”, 1996 by Long, John H., ed. .
- “English Topographic Terms in Florida, 1563–1874”, 1953 by McMullen, Edwin Wallace.
- “Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs” by Morris, Allen.
- Florida Map Books (amazon.com)
[…] One of the best sources of early settlers of the Florida panhandle is the Congressional Record from May 26, 1824 in which claims to land in West Florida are listed, including names of claimants, number of acres cultivated, and the period of time in which the land was cultivated for each person listed. The majority of these men and their families migrated into Florida between 1819 and 1820. There are a total of 74 families listed in the Congressional Record in Escambia County, Florida whose land claim was recognized. These two pages from the Congressional Record are available through the link at the end of this article. It is important to remember that in 1823 there were only two counties in the panhandle: Escambia and Jackson. These two counties extended to the eastern boundary of the modern day counties of Jackson, Calhoun and Gulf. A good website for seeing the counties in any given year of our history is located at Map of U. S. – Florida. […]