Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
| Title: | Map of Yazoo County, Miss. containing the public roads, schools, churches, precincts, farms, residences, gins &c., &c. as located by surveys made by Mercer and Fontaine, projected & drawn from the field notes, records, &c. by J. W. Mercer. |
| Author: | Mercer, J.W. |
| Scale: | ca. 1 inch to 4,224 feet |
| Situation Date: | 1874 |
| Publication Date: | 1874 |
| Type: | Original |
| Features: | Drainage showing width and depth of streams, lakes, ridges, sections, beat lines, state owned lands, property boundaries with names of owners/residents and size in acres, some named properties, e.g. Balfore, China Grove, schools, churches, gins, houses, ferries, stage stops,. |
| Comments: | Features Note: Illustrations around map title: railroad station scene at top center; buck deer below it; eagle in upper right corner; and steamship below it. Publication Note: "National Lith. Institute, Chicago." Noted on Mississippi Archives copy-""G. W. Terry. Map colorer & mounter, Rice’s Building, 79 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill." |
| Coverage: | Yazoo County |
| Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Mercer and Fontaine |
| Size (inches): | 57 X 58 |
| Color: | Y |