Valley Girl Views: Where To Find The Maps

Where To Find Old Maps Showing The Susquehanna Valley

(A Work In Progress) Index

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WEST BRANCH MAPS

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Map Of The West Branch 1770/1780s

Particularly Fort Locations

The Great Island Path lead from Shamokin (today, the town of Sunbury) to Lock Haven.

1720 Map Of the Susquehanna River

The West Branch as shown on assorted early maps

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COUNTY MAPS & ATLAS

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COLUMBIA & MONTOUR

1872 Columbia Snyder Montour Union & North'd

The 1822 Melish/Whiteside Map

Of Columbia County

LYCOMING

1873 Lycoming County Atlas

Draft of the Larry's Creek Plank Road, Lycoming County 1855

1861 Map of Lycoming Co.

1892 Map of Lycoming County

1969 Map

Showing The Fair Play Territory

The 1822 Melish/Whiteside Map

Of Lycoming County

1896 Map Of Lycoming County

From the Report Of The 1895 Lycoming County Centennial, edited by Meginness

NORTHUMBERLAND

Historic Northumberland County Map

By Charles Fisher Snyder, 1932

The 1822 Melish/Whiteside Map

Of Northumberland County

1872 Columbia Snyder Montour Union & North'd

The Freeland County Proposal of 1850

When Milton & Watsontown almost left North'd County

UNION

1856 Map Of Union County

1872 Columbia Snyder Montour Union & North'd

The 1822 Melish/Whiteside Map

Of Union County

MAP 1

The 1822 Melish/Whiteside Map

Of Union County

MAP 2

SNYDER

	1872 Columbia Snyder Montour Union & North'd

A historic map of Snyder County, also by Charles Fisher Snyder, can be found in The Story Of Snyder County, Edited by George Franklin Dunkleberger.

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TOWN MAPS
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The Fowler Maps Of Central Pa

Sanborn Fire Maps

A List Of Sanborn Fire Map Abbreviations

The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps, dating from 1867 to the present and depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

The maps were designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard associated with a particular property and therefore show the size, shape, and construction of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories as well as fire walls, locations of windows and doors, sprinkler systems, and types of roofs. The maps also indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers and are an incredible resource for historians.

There are two main online databases to search for Sanborn Fire Maps:

Library Of Congress

Penn State University Libraries