Allen County, Indiana

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  2. 1846 Post Offices on Internet Archive United States Official Postal Guide
  3. American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps. Several interesting maps on Canals, Migration of Enslaved People, Overland Trails, Redlining and Urban Renewal. Redlining was posted February 28, 2028 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook
  4. Atlases of Indiana by county - over 450 maps and atlases at Historic Map Works
  5. April 5, 2017 Facebook post shows a black ink used by draftsmen when preparing maps on a cloth "paper" or "vellum". Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors show a bottle of ink by THE ROBERTS NUMBERING MACHINE COMPANY out of Brooklyn, New York that you can inspect and even have your photo taken at Their Wall.
  6. Explore America’s History With These Richly Interactive Maps “American Panorama” delves into the social, political and economic movements that define this country by Maris Fessenden on Smithsonian Magazine. From a September 14, 2022 by Smithsonian Magazine on Facebook stating: The wealth of digital tools available to mapmakers today means that these stories have now evolved to take viewers into the past, show changes over time and serve as detailed sources of information.
  7. BLM Bureau of Land Management - How to Search Family History in BLM Records - Online Patent Searches - Automated Records - National Park Service Homestead Records.
  8. Digital Public Library of America Announces Partnership with David Rumsey Map Collection on Digital Public Library of America blog April 30, 2013. The 38,000 digital map and image collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America.
  9. Discussion of 1876 map February 20, 2017 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
  10. Drive Time map to other cities on Our Story Made Here
  11. Early Indiana Trails and Surveys on Archive.org published 1919 by George R. Wilson- Indiana Historical Society Publications Vol. 6 No. 3.
  12. Gazetteer at USGS Geographic Names Information Services GNIS
  13. Indiana county boundary changes over time at the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project at The Newberry Library includes interactive maps, shapefiles, chronologies, and metadata for each State.
  14. Indiana County Maps and Altlases - FamilyHistory1010.com clicking years shows county boundary changes
  15. Indiana Historical County Boundaries - Newberry Library
  16. Indiana Historical Counties 1778 - 2000 on Newberry Library Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
  17. Northeast Indiana Township maps - Census 2000 IU Kelley School of Business
  18. IndianaMap.org - Indiana Map and Data Downloads for counties
  19. Indiana Map at QuickFacts from the U.S. Census
  20. Interactive Map of Indiana County Formation History at MapsOfUS.org shows county changes over time.
  21. Map of Indiana County Formations 1758-1932 on MapGeeks.org an interactive series of maps showing county changes over time.
  22. Maps of Indiana posted Feb. 13, 2016 on Archives of Hoosier History Live podcast on Saturdays, noon to 1 p.m. ET on WICR 88.7 FM introduction begins with: On a map created in 1778, the name "Indiana" appears for a region that later became part of West Virginia. Other maps from the late 1700s and early 1800s reflect border disputes between Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and the Hoosier state. A detail from the 1918 map How to Drive to Brown County Best Routes provides an early glimpse of roadways for auto travelers.During the early auto era, the first so-called "highway map" of Indiana may have been one distributed in 1919. A map of Indiana's gravel roads was produced in 1895, while a bicycle route map helped 1901 travelers. All of them will be among the historic maps we will explore when Nelson is joined in studio by two Indiana Historical Society staff members. Eric Mundell and Amy Vedra are co-authors of Mapping Indiana (IHS Press), a new book that features 107 of the more than 1,700 maps in the society's collections.
  23. maps in public domain #united+states #indiana at picryl.com
  24. Historical Topographic Maps - Preserving the Past - USGS has over 193,000 topographical maps that will eventually be online. As of July 2013 Indiana was NOT listed in their Progress since April 2012 pdf.
  25. Indiana State Library Map Collection part of Indiana State Library Digital Collection in their Map Collection.
  26. Maps in the Indiana Historical Society Collections About this collection Maps augment and complement information found in books and manuscript collections. They show expansion of settlement, document legal boundaries, highlight transportation networks, report geological findings and more, while at the same time they can be works of art themselves. This collection contains some of the maps in our holdings. At We Do History online digital collection by the Indiana Historical Society.
  27. The Easy Way to Add Maps to Your Family History Projects published April 24, 2011 on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - using the National Atlas.gov.
  28. Land Patent Searchat FamilySearch.org.
  29. NARA National Archives - Land Records Introduction and Links to Resources on Land Entry Case Files and Related Records
  30. Convert an Address to Latitude and Longitude discusses converting addresses to Latitude and Longitude for easy GPS use, published December 29, 2009 on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.
  31. Maps - Araphax Publishing shows original land purchasers on land patents from Federal Government using BLM maps and others
  32. Using Maps in Genealogy - USGS
  33. Maps - Vpike.com uses Google Street View and Maps in separate windows to view main highways and city streets
  34. Michigan Road commissioned in 1826 connected Madison on the Ohio River with Michigan City on Lake Michigan. Map of early roads and canals was posted May 8, 2016 on Facebook by Indiana Bicentennial Commission on Facebook.
  35. Post Offices by County United States Postal Service with some establishment dates
  36. TigerWeb US Census Bureau Geography Division has a demo video
  37. USGS Quad Topographic Features in Allen County at TopoZone
    1. Virtual Public Lecture Seriesarchived as videos online: monthly talks are intended for a general public audience that may not be familiar with the science being discussed. Our speakers are encouraged to thoroughly explain the subject matter being presented, and to define any words or terms that may be unfamiliar to those not having a background or familiarity with the material being presented.
    2. USGSalso has a Public Lecture Series channel on YouTube.
  38. The Wabash trade route in the development of the old Northwest (1958) - Benton, Elbert Jay, 1871-1946
  39. Link to Fort Wayne, Indiana images on What Was There. WhatWasThere Our goal is to crowdsource a photographic history of the world -- or at least any place covered by Google Maps. It's fun and it's free. Try it! Copied from their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WhatWasThere/.

    August 31, 2022 post by Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS on Facebook:

    WhatWasThere's goal is to #crowdsource a photographic history of the world -- or at least any place covered by GoogleMaps -- allowing you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past. It's fun and it's free!

    http://www.whatwasthere.com/

  40. Where is that place? explains the USGS mapping service by Judy G. Russell published December 3, 2018 in The Legal Genealogist blog blog pointing out the value of the volunteer The National Map Corps.
    1. More on those place names… by Judy G. Russell published December 4, 2018 in The Legal Genealogist blog. Some more GNIS details.

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