Maps
The Lay of the Land
This is an index of maps we use at this web site to illustrate our family history. They are organized into three broad categories:
- Europe — principally maps of Germany
- USA — principally maps of the middle western states, where family memembers first settled
- South America — principally maps of Brazil
Europe
- Two maps of territories in the region of Westphalia when the area was occupied by the 1st French Empire:
- Landesherrschaften im Jahre 1801 [Territorial Domains in 1801]
- Französische Neuschöpfungen 1812 [New French Creations 1812]
- Grand Duchy of Berg, 1808—1810, a creation of the First French Empire.
- First French Empire, Hanseatic & Rhine Departements, 1811 — territories in northwestern "Germany".
North America
Missouri
Missouri Department of Transportation
- The Missouri Department of Transportation has available on their web site a archival collection of state highway maps (in PDF format) dating back to 1926. Also included is a portion of the 1918 map, "which is considered the first official highway map." As of 2016, the most recent state highway map was published in 2013 and it is also available in digital format.
- Current Missouri county maps
- Current Missouri city maps
Lafayette County
- From Plat Book of Lafayette County, Missouri; Drawn from Actual Surveys & County Records (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: North West Publishing Company, 1897):
- Township 49 North Range 26 West — page 22; showing parts of the civil townships of Washington and Davis between and south of the town of Mayview and the city of Higginsville.
- From Tuttle and Pike, Atlas of Lafayette County, Missouri 1914 (Higginsville, Missouri: George Scott, 1914):
- Township 49 North Range 26 West — page 33; showing parts of the civil townships of Washington and Davis between and south of the town of Mayview and the city of Higginsville.
- From Atlas of Lafayette County, Missouri (Rockford, Illinois: W. W. Hixson & Company, [1920? — 1928?]): 1
- Township 49 North Range 26 West — page 23; showing parts of the civil townships of Washington and Davis between the town of Mayview and the city of Higginsville south to U.S. Route 40.
- From Plat Book of Lafayette County, Missouri (Rockford, Illinois: W. W. Hixson & Co., 1930):
- Township 49 North Range 26 West — page 23; showing parts of the civil townships of Washington and Davis between the town of Mayview and the city of Higginsville south to U.S. Route 40.
St. Charles County
- Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum's land — 40 acres — 1840 St. Charles County, Missouri.
Warren County
- Adolph Heinrich Fiegenbaum's land — 81.47 acres — 1844 Warren County, Missouri.
- Selected maps from An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Warren County, Missouri, Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations and Surveys by Edwards Brothers, of Missouri (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Edwards Brothers, of Missouri, 1877):
- Map of Warren County, Missouri — page 5; showing both the survey townships and the civil townships: Camp Branch, Bridgeport, Elkhorn, Hickory Grove, Pinkney and Charrette.
- Township 44 North Range 1 West and Townhship 48 North Range 2 West — page 18; Township 44 North Range 1 West is the very southern tip of Charrette Township, bordering the Missouri River to the south and St. Charles County to the east. Townhship 48 North Range 2 West is the most eastern part of Camp Branch Township.
- Township 45 North Range 1 West — page 13; the eastern portion of Charrette Township where it borders St. Charles County, including the town of Marthasville and the German Evangelical Missouri College.
- Township 45 North Range 2 West — page 27; southwest corner of Charrette Township, including the villages of Holstein and Hopewell Academy .
- Township 45 North Range 3 West — page 27; southern portion of Pinkney Township, including Pinkney and Pinkney Landing on the Missouri River. Insets show details of Pendleton in Elkhorn Township (Township 47 North Range 3 West) and of Marthasville (Township 45 North Range 1 West) and Holstein (Township 45 North Range 2 West) in Charrette Township.
- Township 46 North Range 2 West — page 26; northwestern Charrette Township & southeastern Elkhorn Township, including the Lippstadt Gemeinde.
- Township 48 North Range 3 West — page 39; a portion of the norther section of Camp Branch Township.
- Township 49 North Range 3 West — page 43; the extreme northern portion of Camp Branch Township.
South America
I am working of adding maps relevant to the family history in South America, specifically Brazil.
Notes
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Determining when this atlas was published is not easy. No date or reference to time was printed in the book itself.
The bibliographic record for the copy held by the Library of Congress supposes the date of publication to be "[1920?]."
In a copy of the atlas held by the Mid-Continent Public Library, at Independence, Missouri, the year '1928' has been added by hand after the publisher's information on the title page of the book. A digitized version of this particular copy of the book is available at Family History Books on the FamilySearch web site.