Maps of Nebraska

State Antique Maps & Atlases  •  State D.O.T. County Highway Maps  •  State Map Description & Links

Nebraska Maps tend to be an important area of ancestors and family history research, especially if you live faraway from where your ancestor was living. Given that Nebraska political boundaries often changed, historic maps tend to be significant in helping you find out the precise specific location of your ancestor's hometown, exactly what land they owned, exactly who their neighbors ended up being, and more.

Nebraska Maps often are likely to be an excellent source for how to get started with your research, because they provide you with significantly valuable information and facts immediately. Nebraska Maps can be a major resource of considerable amounts of information on family history.

There is a collection of maps called the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which can be found at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Also there is a collection of about 500 plat books and county atlases from almost every Nebraska county for the years of 1885 to around 1947.

Nebraska County Formation Map

(Nebraska maps made with the use AniMap Plus 3.0 & with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)
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Nebraska Antique Maps & Atlases

See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.

These are scanned from the original copies so you can see Nebraska and Nebraska counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Nebraska maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Nebraska.

Disclaimer: All Nebraska maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution.Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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Nebraska County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

The Nebraska Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps. In addition to roads and boundaries, these maps include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries.

To View the Map: Just click the Image to view the map online. In order to make the Image size as small as possible they were save on the lowest resolution.

These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format (Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so loading may be slow if using a dial-up connection). The main use of these are the locations of all known cemeteries in a county and of course the various roads and church locations. These Maps are Free to Download
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Nebraska Map Description & Links

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