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 101-150 of 346 for de soto county

  • 85370-1-map.tif

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

    Amite County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191637

  • 85503-1-map.tif

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

    Choctaw County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191638

  • 85529-1-map.tif

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

    Clarke County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191639

  • 85541-1-map.tif

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

    Coahoma County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191641

  • 85542-1-map.tif

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

    Covington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191642

  • 85543-1-map.tif

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

    Forrest County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191643

  • 85544-1-map.tif

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

    George County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191644

  • 85684-1-map.tif

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

    Jones County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191650

  • 85688-1-map.tif

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

    Lafayette County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191651

  • 85689-1-map.tif

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

    Lamar County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191652

  • 85690-1-map.tif

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

    Lauderdale County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191653

  • 85738-1-map.tif

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

    Lee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191654

  • 85739-1-map.tif

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

    Lincoln County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191655

  • 85741-1-map.tif

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

    Lowndes County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191656

  • 85839-1-map.tif

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

    Monroe County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191658

  • 85840-1-map.tif

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

    Montgomery County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191659

  • 85841-1-map.tif

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

    Newton County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191660

  • 85842-1-map.tif

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

    Noxubee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191661

  • 85843-1-map.tif

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

    Oktibbeha County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191662

  • 85868-1-map.tif

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

    Perry County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191664

  • 85869-1-map.tif

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

    Pike County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191665

  • 85871-1-map.tif

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

    Pontotoc County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191666

  • 85873-1-map.tif

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

    Prentiss County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191667

  • 85878-1-map.tif

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

    Simpson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191669

  • 85879-1-map.tif

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

    Tharp, in charge, and William De Young.

    Smith County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191670

  • 85883-1-map.tif

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

    Wayne County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191671

  • 85884-1-map.tif

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

    Wilkinson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191672

  • 85885-1-map.tif

    Soil map [Mississippi] : Winston County Sheet / U.S.

    Winston County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191673

  • 377-1-map.tif

    Carte de la Louisiane et pays voisins : pour servir a l'Histoire general des voyages / Par M.

    B., ing. de la marine. Tom XIV. No. 12.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191026

  • 14081-map-01.tif

    Indian cessions in upper Mississippi / by Baron de Carondelet (photocopy).

    Carondelet, Francois Louis Hector Baron de

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/256158

  • 67711_1.tif

    Historical Copiah County : charter January 21, 1823 / by Robert W. Bell, Jr.

    Copiah County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191320

  • 69640-map-01.tif

    Map of Meridian, Mississippi, and Lauderdale County, side 1.

    Lauderdale County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191415

  • 69640-map-02.tif

    Map of Meridian, Mississippi, and Lauderdale County, side 2.

    Lauderdale County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191416

  • 69671-map.tif

    Map of Tishomingo City, Tishomingo County, Miss. / Jno. I. Pierce.

    Tishomingo County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191423

  • 69730-1-map.tif

    Township 15, range 3 east : Warren County.

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191462

  • 69766-map-01.tif

    Columbus Separate School District : Lowndes County, Miss. / D.E. Field, civil engineer

    Lowndes County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191485

  • 85683-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Jefferson Davis County sheet / U.S.

    Jefferson Davis County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191649

  • 85844-1-map.tif

    Soil map, Mississippi : Pearl River County sheet / U.S.

    Pearl River County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191663

  • 67723-1-map.tif

    Choctaw County, Mississippi

    Rural delivery routes [map] : Choctaw County, Miss. / United States Post Office Department.

    Choctaw County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/897298

  • 450-1-map.tif

    Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des isles de l'Amerique : pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages

    Bellin, ingr. de la marine, 1754.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191028

  • 67720-map-01.tif

    Department of Education : Calhoun County, May 19, 1928 / by Q.T. Crowson, Supt. of Ed.

    Calhoun County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191326

  • 8204-01-c2-map.tif

    County map of the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana / drawn and engraved by W. H.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191134

  • 8205-1-map.tif

    County map of the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191135

  • 69666-01-map.tif

    Map of the city of Natchez suburbs : Adams County, Mississippi, 1891 / Chs. W.

    Babbitt, C.E., city and county surveyor.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191421

  • 72490-1-map.tif

    New rail road and county map of Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi / George F. Cram Co.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191516

  • 13881-01-map.tif

    Emboucheres du Mississipi [sic] / Philippe van de Maelen.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191182

  • 13892-1-map.tif

    Sketch of the operations of Major General Quitman's Division before Chapultepec and La Garila de Belen

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191192

  • 14059-1-map.tif

    Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend le Canada, la Louisiane, le Labrado, le Groenland,

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191259

  • 14059-2-map.tif

    Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend le Canada, la Louisiane, le Labrado, le Groenland,

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191260

  • 69741-map-01.tif

    Problem areas in soil conservation Mississippi : Simpson Soil Conservation District, Simpson County,

    Simpson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191470