Historical Online Maps

Maps are a major resource when researching history of any place.  Online Maps, while lacking the touch of a printed map, offer zoom, scaling, and sometimes search features to facilitate using the map.  There are many kinds of maps. Most maps show political divisions (country, state/province, county, township, etc.).  There are specialty maps that focus on an aspect of the location; Topographical maps, Road, Railroad, River maps are common.  While we are most familiar with sheet maps, maps bound in books and atlases present a collection of maps.

The Delaware County Historical Society’s Cryder Research Library collection includes maps and atlas books along with directories for both Delaware City and Rural areas.  The Society’s Online Catalog lets you search for available resources, for example   Search for Maps.  Visitors are welcomed to the Library, during open hours, view and research with our maps and other resources.

In our research, our volunteers have found Online other Maps of Ohio, Delaware County, and places in the county.  To assist our members, friends, and visitors we offer this page of online maps that we found useful.

Delaware County Ohio Maps

1849 Delaware County Ohio - Online Map - Library of Congress
Delaware Co. 1849

1849 – Delaware County Ohio  

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Townships, Landowners, Includes a list of voters in Delaware County.

Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

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1890 Sanborn Fire Ins Map -Delaware Oh - Online Map
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1895 Sanborn Fire Ins Map - Delaware Oh -Online Map

1895 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio

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Oct 1895. Fifteen Images.

Ohio State Maps

Ohio 1814 Map - Carey's American Pocket Atlas

1814 Ohio – Carey’s American Pocket Atlas  

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From: Carey’s American pocket atlas. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1814.

1820 Ohio – American Antiquarian Society

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Shows counties, major roads, and important settlements in each county, including the Black Swamp of NW Ohio and the Unbroken Sandstone Region in SE Ohio.

Ohio Map 1828 - A Finley

1828 Ohio – A Finley

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Colored Counties.

Ohio Map 1840 - Lewis Robinson & Co.

1840 Ohio  – Lewis Robinson & Co

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Ohio–Administrative and political divisions, Canals

1851 Ohio Townships – Colton

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Hand-colored. Table of “Census of the State of Ohio” 1840,1850.

Ohio Transportation Maps

Ohio Railway Postal Map 1882

1882 Ohio Railway Postal Map

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Map shows county boundaries, cities and towns, and the railroad network with names of lines along the railroads.

1898 Ohio Railways

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Shows counties, cities and towns, railroad network with named lines, and a list of “Railways operating in Ohio” and “Electric railways operating in Ohio.”

1976 Ohio Transportation Map

1976 Ohio Transportation Map

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Shows transportation zones, trackage rights, principal stations, distances between rail intersections, major U.S., Interstate, and State highways, and navigable waterways.  Includes “Index to railroads.”

About the Source

Library of Congress

Map Collections of the Library of Congress The Geography and Map Division (G & M) has custody of the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world with collections numbering over 5.5 million maps, 80,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, over 500 globes, and globe gores, 3,000 raised relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including over 19,000 CDs/DVDs. The online Map Collections represents only a small fraction that has been converted to digital form.