Early Minnesota Maps Online

Historical Society makes original public survey documents available to all

The Minnesota Historical Society has scanned and mounted a collection of maps from the days of early European settlement. The collection, housed virtually at http://www.mnhs.org/...igitalmaps/index.htm, allows searching by county, township and range, or provides keyword searches of plat books and old atlases.

The surveys were done by the U.S. Surveyor General’s office between 1848 and 1907. Jonathan Crowe at The Map Room reports that the entire collection owned by the MHS numbers in excess of 19,000 individual maps and 2,000 volumes, but the collection likely contains a fraction of the actual collection at this time.

(Via The Map Room)