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Maps of Vermont

Map of Vermont Counties

Map of Vermont county boundaries and county seats

Maps of Vermont are generally an important piece of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor resided. Due to the fact Vermont political borders often changed, historic maps are generally significant in helping you find out the precise specific location of your ancestor’s hometown, exactly what land they owned, just who his or her neighbors had been, and a lot more.

Maps of Vermont often tend to be an excellent source for how to get started with your research, since they give considerably valuable information and facts quickly. Vermont Maps can be a major resource of significant amounts of information and facts on family history.

Vermont borders Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Canada. Vermont’s 10  largest cities are Burlington, Essex, South Burlington, Colchester, Rutland, Bennington, Brattleboro Milton, Hartford, Springfield, Barre, Williston and Middlebury. Learn more about Historical Facts of Vermont Counties.

Excellent maps exist for use in solving genealogical problems in Vermont. Because it is still a sparsely settled state, it is possible to retrace many an ancestor’s steps, or at least his or her places of residence.

For research and traveling, one superb atlas details town divisions, geographical details, road surface types, routes of transportation, cemeteries and, in older editions, locations of buildings (including those no longer occupied). It is The Vermont Atlas and Gazetteer (Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping, 2003), published in updated versions. A smaller alternative publication is The Vermont Road Atlas and Guide (Burlington, Vt.: Northern Cartographic, 1985– ), in its sixth edition includes the names of all roads and geographic features in relief.
For an excellent bibliography of maps, see David A. Cobbs’s “Vermont Maps Prior to 1900: An Annotated Carto-bibliography,” published as a special double issue of Vermont History 39 (Nos. 3 and 4), 1971.

The Beers Atlas, detailing the structures and owners in the late nineteenth century in every county, has been reissued in the original county editions by Tuttle Publishing, Box 541, Rutland, VT 05701. Only Bennington, Chittenden, and Windsor maps still remain in print, but the entire series is available at the Vermont Historical Society and other research libraries. Originally published by F. W. Beers between 1869 and 1873, these atlases provide a valuable portrait of communities. The same details exist in a set of maps ten years earlier, but the Wallings Map Series from 1858 is only available for reference in large, wall-sized versions at the Vermont Historical Society and other research libraries.

For solving early genealogical problems in Vermont, the most important maps are the town lotting maps. When each town was granted, the land was divided into lots and numbered. Either the lot’s number or the original proprietor are so often used in land descriptions that they are essential for locating a family in relationship to neighbors and the broader community. Lot maps may be found in town offices, the Vermont Historical Society, the Vermont Public Records Division, or other state agencies.

Contact us if you have a map of Vermont or link to a Vermont Map you would like to see listed.

Vermont County Formation Map

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


Antique Atlases & Maps of Vermont

Disclaimer: All Vermont 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


Vermont Map Links