Maps of Illinois

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

Illinois Maps are an invaluable area of ancestors and family history research, notably if you live far from where your ancestor was living. Given that Illinois political borders frequently changed, historic maps tend to be important in assisting you uncover the exact specific location of your ancestor's home town, exactly what land they owned, just who his or her neighbors happen to be, and a lot more.

Illinois Maps typically are likely to be an excellent resource for getting started with your research, because they give considerably beneficial information and facts instantly. Illinois Maps are usually a major resource of considerable amounts of information on family history.

Illinois County Formation Map

(Illinois maps made with the use AniMap Plus 3.0 & with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)
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Illinois 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 Illinois and Illinois counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some Illinois maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in Illinois.

Disclaimer: All Illinois 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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Illinois County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

The Illinois Highway Department has prepared a series of county road maps. 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

The Illinois TOWNSHIP General Highway Maps emphasize the display of the road network on a regional basis without regard to specific city and village boundaries.
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Illinois Map Description & Links

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