Indiana County Maps and Atlases

County maps can be found in the surveyor’s office of most courthouses and may sometimes be purchased or photocopied.They include historical county maps and contemporary county, township, and city maps. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Indiana (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996) may also be helpful.

A. T. Andreas, Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876 together with the plat of Indianapolis and a sampling of illustrations (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1968), a reprint of the 1876 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Chicago: Baskin, Forster, 1876), has been published by and is available from the Indiana Historical Society.

Indiana topographical and geological survey maps are available through the Indiana Department of Conservation, State Office Bldg., Indianapolis, IN 46204.

The earliest Sanborn fire insurance map available for the state of Indiana is 1883. The Indiana State Library has a few Sanborn fire insurance maps on microfilm; the Indiana University Geography and Map Library in Bloomington, however, has an almost complete collection of these maps. Atlas and plat maps for each county and township dating 1875 to present are at the Indiana State Library. County maps show roads, railroads, churches, cemeteries, and schools.

You can view a list of maps for other states at U.S. State & County Boundry Maps and Antique Maps & Atlases.

Rotating Formation Indiana 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
1790	1795	1796	1798	1800	1801	1803	1805	1808	1809	1810	1811	1813	1814
1816	1817	1818	1819	1820	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829
1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1844
1845	1846	1847	1850	1851	1852	1853	1859	1861	1868	1873

County Census years
1790	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	-1930

Map Abbreviations
unorg. = unorganized g. = gained w. = with fr. = from atmt. = attachment exch = exchanged nca.= non county area ch. = changed Ad - Adams Al - Allen Ba - Bartholomew Be - Benton Bl - Blackford Bo - Boone Br - Brown Car - Carroll Cas - Cass Cli - Clinton Clk - Clark Cly - Clay	Cr - Crawford Da - Daviess Dea - Dearborn Dec - Decatur Del - Delaware DK - De Kalb Du - Dubois El - Elkhart Fa - Fayette Fl - Floyd Fo - Fountain Fr - Franklin Fu - Fulton Gi - Gibson Gr - Grant Gre - Greene Ham - Hamilton Han - Hancock Har - Harrison Hdk - Hendricks	Ho - Howard Hry - Henry Hu - Huntington Jac - Jackson Jas - Jasper Jay - Jay Jef - Jefferson Jen - Jennings Jo - Johnson Kn - Knox Ko - Kosciusko Lak - Lake Law - Lawrence LG - La Grange LP - La Porte Mad - Madison Mgn - Morgan Mi - Miami Mrn - Marion Mro - Monroe	Msl - Marshall Mtn - Martin Mty - Montgomery Ne - Newton No - Noble Oh - Ohio Or - Orange Ow - Owen Pa - Parke Pe - Perry Pi - Pike Por - Porter Pos - Posey Pul - Pulaski Put - Putnam Ra - Randolph Ri - Ripley Ru - Rush Sc - Scott Sh - Shelby	SJ - St. Joseph Sp - Spencer Sta - Starke Ste - Steuben Su - Sullivan Sw - Switzerland Tcn - Tippecanoe Tpn - Tipton Un - Union Va - Vanderburgh Ve - Vermillion Vi - Vigo Wab - Wabash Was - Washington Way - Wayne We - Wells Wrk - Warrick Wrn - Warren Wte - White Wty - Whitley

Indiana Atlases

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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.

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