Collections of free old historical maps of Ohio online. Free 19th century Ohio gazetteers. Historic birds-eye views of Ohio towns.
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The Great Lakes States Directory
Old Ohio Maps – Collections
Columbus and Ohio Map Collection
Columbus Metropolitan Library
61 historic maps of Ohio; mainly of Columbus and Franklin County.
Historic Map Works
The Historic MapWorks Company
A very large collection of maps of the U.S. and the world. The Ohio portion of the collection has 440 atlases that contain 21,000 historical maps. There are a number of atlases here for almost every county.
Old Maps Online
This is a collaborative portal for accessing a number of online map collections worldwide. U.S. collections include;
The David Rumsey Collection
Harvard Library Collection
New York Public Library Collection
Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
46 Panoramic maps or Birds-eye views of various Ohio cities and towns
Library of Congress
Various publishers and years of publication
Many of these are highly detailed pictures showing all buildings. The viewer at this site enables high-resolution zooms.
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Historic Transportation Maps – Historical Maps of Ohio
Rails and Trails.com
This online collection consists of both county and transportation historic maps, including many railroad maps. The majority are for Ohio. You’ll need to download a free DjVu browser plug-in to view most of them. Railroad maps, transportation maps.
Railroad Maps of Ohio 1828-1900
LOC Geography and Map Division
Various Publishers
Eighteen 19th century railway maps.
LOC Atlases and Maps of Ohio – Historical Maps of Ohio
LOC Geography and Map Division
Various Publishers
100 Library of Congress Atlases and Maps for Ohio. Most show landowners in counties.
Sanborn Maps at Library of Congress – Ohio
The Sanborn maps are extremely detailed maps of cities and villages produced by the Sanborn Company for use by fire insurance agents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The maps are at a scale of 50-feet to one-inch. Some of the maps for the largest cities in the U.S. were over 100 pages. Maps show individual buildings, the construction materials used, and the purpose of the building. Sometimes the company name is included for business buildings.
This Library of Congress free online collection has over 35,000 online Sanborn maps for thousands of U.S. cities and villages. Many towns have more than one map produced over several decades. When searching for a town in Advanced Search, choose a state first to see the complete list of cities in that state. See “About this Collection” (at the Sanborn page) for a full explanation of the symbols and conventions used in the maps.
Maps and Atlases of Historic Ohio
Map of Ohio (1804)
David Rumsey Map Collection
Author Samuel Lewis
A very early historical map, published only a year after statehood.
Ohio (1806) – Old Ohio Maps
Darlington Digital Library
Another map of Ohio, published shortly after it became a state.
See our Century Past collected links to free online map sites. We have 5 pages of links: for the U.S., North America, UK & Ireland, Worldwide, & Military maps.
The State of Ohio, with part of Upper Canada (1814)
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Published by Carey Mathew
State of Ohio 1815 – Historical Maps of Ohio
David Rumsey Map Collection
Chillicothe: A. Bourne etc. 1815
One of many historical maps of Ohio on this webpage.
Atlas Map of Ohio 1833
David Rumsey Map Collection
London: Chapman and Hall. 1833
A somewhat interesting detail of this historical map of the State is that, despite the State preparing to go to war to insist that the area of Toledo, where the Miami River empties into Lake Erie north of Perrysburg, was Ohio territory, this 1833 map places that location in Michigan.
County & Township Map of the States of Ohio and Indiana – Old Ohio Maps
Mitchell 1880
Map of Counties.
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Map of The Western Reserve Including the Fire Lands In Ohio
David Rumsey Map Collection
Nelson, OH: Alan Taylor. 1833
Historic map of Western Reserve.
An Explanation of the Map which Delineates that Part of the Federal Lands, Comprehended between Pennsylvania West Line, the Rivers Ohio and Sioto, and Lake Erie: confirmed to the United States by sundry tribes of Indians, in the treaties of 1784 and 1786, and now ready for settlement
Cutler, Manasseh
Salem: Dabney and Coshing 1787
Vintage map.
Ohio State Railroads and Townships 1854 – Historical Maps of Ohio
Historic Map Works
NY: J. H. Colton. 1854
Ohio Railroad Map, Ohio Township Map
Ohio Interactive Map of Historical Boundaries of Counties from Creation of the First County through the Year 2000 – Old Ohio Maps
The Newberry
The Newberry Library. Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture
Historical county map of Ohio.
Atlas of the state of Ohio: to which is added an atlas of the United States
Darlington Digital Library
Henry Francis Walling. Pittsburg, H.H. Lloyd & Co. 1869
Maps of counties.
Mills and Boon free online reads here at Century Past
Indian Land Cessions in Ohio Land. Ohio Land Map 1
Indian Land Cessions in Ohio. Ohio Map 2
18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress
Smithsonian Institution: Bureau of American Ethnology
GPO 1896-97
The 18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology contains, in the latter portion of Volume 2, a “Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress Authorizing Allotments of Land in Severalty”. Included in this is a “Schedule of Indian Land Sessions” that provides summary descriptions of each case throughout the U.S. in which a tribe ceded land (whether by sale or not) to the U.S. Federal government. The Schedule is followed by maps of every U.S. state that contained such land cessions. These maps show the locations of land ceded. A number on each land cession corresponds to an entry in the “Schedule of Indian Land Sessions”, which begins on page 648 of the Annual Report.
How to use this: Click the link for Ohio Map 1, which is at images 680-681 of the Report, or Map 2, at 684-685. Note the number of the land cession you wish to read about, and search for that number in the Schedule (3rd link above) that begins on page 648 of the Annual Report. This Schedule is organized as a table that spans 2 pages, so look on odd-numbered pages for the land cession number that corresponds with the map location. The preceding page contains a description for that cession, plus a reference to the legal statute.
Archeological Atlas of Ohio: Showing the Distribution of the Various Classes of Prehistoric Remains in the State, with a Map of the Principal Indian Trails and Towns – Historical Maps of Ohio
Paper
Mills, William C.
Columbus, Ohio 1914
This atlas contains a map for each Ohio county showing the distribution of earthworks. The link for “Paper” leads to a 1984 paper about Mills’ Archaeological Atlas, describing the research and methodology behind it and evaluating its importance.
Ohio Historic Gazetteers
The Ohio Gazetteer, and Traveller’s Guide
containing a description of the several towns, townships, and counties, with their water-courses, roads, improvements, mineral productions &c, &c.
Jenkins, Warren
Columbus: Whiting 1841
(title page continued) “Together with an appendix, or general register; embracing tables of roads and distances; of post offices, their location and distance from the capital of the state and of the U.S.; of works of internal improvement; of the several officers of state, their residence, &c; of the colleges and their officers; of banks, their officers and capital, &c. Appendix containing the census of the state for 1840.”. Ohio historic gazetteer.
The Ohio Gazetteer; or Topographical Dictionary …
describing the several counties, towns, villages, canals, roads, rivers, lakes, springs, Mines, &c in the State of Ohio
Kilbourne, John
Columbus: Kilbourne 1829
The 9th edition of this gazetteer, which served as an emigrant guide for many settlers.
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Conclin’s New River Guide, or, A Gazetteer of all the Towns on the Western Waters …
containing sketches of the cities, towns, and countries bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and their principal tributaries; together with their population, products, commerce, &c., &c., in 1848; and many interesting events of history connected with them.
Conclin, George
Cincinnati: Conclin 1849