Historical Maps

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has cataloged over 2,500 maps in its "published information" collection. They include hand-drawn sketches of towns, localities, plantations, and battlefields, as well as published maps from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries.

MDAH staff digitized over 600 paper maps for this online exhibit. The earliest is a triptych printed by the famous Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1588, including La Florida, drawn by Geronimo Chaves. In his book The Southeast in Early Maps, William P. Cumming called La Florida "one of the half-dozen most important mother maps of southeastern North America." Several maps in the exhibit trace the history of Mississippi from early exploration through colonial expansion, the territorial period, and statehood. Others are hand-drawn plans and plats of towns, such as P. A. Van Dorn's original plan for the city of Jackson in 1822.

Many maps can also be found in other MDAH collections, such as government records and personal papers. One such example is included in this exhibit, the colorful map of the town of Washington, Mississippi, hand drawn by B. L. C. Wailes in the town's 1838 Minute Book. Maps that other state government agencies (especially the Mississippi Department of Transportation) have scanned to document work projects and then transferred to MDAH are not included here but can be accessed with other electronic government records.

You may try wrapping a query in double quotes for more specific results (e.g. "de soto county").

Showing results 51-100 of 346 for de soto county

  • 13993-1-map.tif

    Original version: Societe Des Americanistes de Paris.-[Paris : s.n.], 1921. Planche I (photocopy)

    Batz, Alexandre de

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191242

  • 14004-map.tif

    Carte des environs du Mississipi / [by Guillaume de L'Isle, given by M. d'Iberville in 1701] (negative

    L'Isle, Guillaume de

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191244

  • 13923-map.tif

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191224

  • 14135-1-map.tif

    Etats-Unis de l'Amerique : divises en 13 provinces avec leurs limites suivant le traite de paix fait

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191295

  • 67817-01-map.tif

    Mississippi, Clarke County sheet / U.S.

    Clarke County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191328

  • 69691-01-map.tif

    Weathersby, Simpson County, Mississippi / J.F. Thames.

    Simpson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191432

  • 69762-map-01.tif

    T2SR15W county of Marion. Names of landowners handwritten on lots.

    Marion County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191482

  • 72515-map-01.tif

    Ridgeland, Madison County, Mississippi / Highland Colony Company.

    Madison County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191536

  • 72515-map-02.tif

    Ridgeland, Madison County, Mississippi / Highland Colony Company.

    Madison County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191537

  • 72524_map.tif

    Map of Hinds County / Jeff D. Bell, copied by Elsie Timberlake.

    Hinds County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191547

  • 13893-01-map.tif

    Robert de Vaugondy fils de Mr. Robert géog. du roi, 1749.

    Robert de Vaugondy, Didier

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191193

  • 13898-1-map.tif

    La Floride divisee en Floride et Caroline / [Gilles] Robert de Vaugondy.

    Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191198

  • 14120-map.tif

    Etablissement du Poste des Akansas aux Ecores Rouges de 17 Mars 1779.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191288

  • 13899-01-map.tif

    Adams County, land holdings, 1810.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191199

  • 14192-1-map.tif

    Adams County land plat map / [drawn by] Louise Hernandez. Pen-and-ink on trace paper.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191318

  • 67716-map-01.tif

    Map of Adams County, Mississippi / C.W. Babbit, County Surveyor, Natchez.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191324

  • 67818-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Claiborne County / U.S.

    Claiborne County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191329

  • 69300-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Harrison County / U.S.

    Harrison County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191355

  • 69301-map-1.tif

    Map of Hancock County, Mississippi / drawn by B.E.

    Connell's fishing map of Hancock County, Mississippi.

    Hancock County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191356

  • 69314-map-01.tif

    Map of Desoto County, Mississippi / compiled by R. F. B. Logan.

    DeSoto County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191359

  • 69342-map-01.tif

    Hinds County white school map.

    Hinds County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191367

  • 69679-map-01.tif

    Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, 1930 / James D. Bryan, delineator.

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191426

  • 69680-map-01.tif

    Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, 1930 / James D. Bryan, Delineator.

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191427

  • 69681-map-01.tif

    Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, 1930 / James D. Bryan, Delineator.

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191428

  • 69725-map-01.tif

    Redistricting plan : Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

    Wilkinson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191458

  • 69740-map-01.tif

    Map of Washington County, Mississippi / Board of Supervisors, side 2.

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191468

  • 69740-map-02.tif

    Map of Washington County, Mississippi / Board of Supervisors, side 1.

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191469

  • 69743-map-01.tif

    Simpson County, map no. 4. T2N R4E.

    Simpson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191471

  • 69750-map-01.tif

    Map of Pearl River County.

    Pearl River County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191473

  • 69764-map-01.tif

    Madison County : white school map.

    Madison County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191483

  • 69772-map-c1-01.tif

    Map of Lee County, Mississippi / Board of Supervisors, Tupelo, Mississippi, copy 1.

    Lee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191487

  • 69772-map-c2-01.tif

    Map of Lee County, Mississippi / Board of Supervisors, Tupelo, Mississippi, copy 2.

    Lee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191488

  • 69773-map-01.tif

    Map of Lee County, Mississippi / compiled by the Board of Supervisors, Tupelo, Mississippi.

    Lee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191489

  • 69774-map-01.tif

    Map of Lee County, Mississippi. Jeff A. Hopkins' map showing trails, etc.

    Lee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191490

  • 71041-map-01.tif

    General highway map : Sunflower County.

    Sunflower County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191498

  • 85530-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Clay County / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils.

    Clay County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191640

  • 85545-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Greene County / U.S.

    Greene County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191645

  • 85586-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Hancock County / U.S.

    Hancock County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191646

  • 85653-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Jackson County / U.S.

    Jackson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191647

  • 85654-1-map.tif

    Soil map : Mississippi, Jasper County / U.S.

    Jasper County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191648

  • 85743-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Marion County / U.S.

    Marion County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191657

  • 85875-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi: Rankin County / U.S.

    Rankin County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191668

  • 67712-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Alcorn County sheet / U.S.

    Published originally as an attached map with Soil survey of Alcorn County, Mississippi / E.

    Alcorn County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191321

  • 69333_map.tif

    Jefferson County, Mississippi : general highway map / prepared by Mississippi State Highway Department

    Jefferson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191363

  • 69340-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi: Grenada County sheet / U.S.

    Grenada County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191366

  • 69345-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi, Adams County sheet / U.S.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191369

  • 69689-map-01.tif

    City of Vicksburg, Warren County, Vicksburg / by O.M.

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191430

  • 69760-1-map.tif

    Monroe County under law 1829 : schematic.

    Monroe County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191480

  • 69777-01-map.tif

    Bolivar County, Mississippi : survey of townships.

    Bolivar County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191493

  • 85198-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Chickasaw County sheet / U.S. Dept.

    Chickasaw County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191636