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. "pearl River county").

Showing results 151-200 of 364 for pearl River county

  • 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

  • 14111-4-map.tif

    Southern boundary from the Pearl to the Mobile River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191277

  • 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

  • 72491-01-map.tif

    Bird's eye view of the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, 1883 /

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191517

  • 14111-3-map.tif

    Southern boundary from the northeast branch of Thompson's Creek to the Pearl River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191276

  • 13855-1-map.tif

    Mississippi River, Rodney, St.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191164

  • 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

  • 14111-B-map.tif

    Ohio River from Cincinnati to the Mississippi River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191283

  • 72605-map-01.tif

    Mobile / Mississippi River Commission, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Miss.

    Mobile County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191581

  • 14111-C-map.tif

    Mississippi River from the Ohio to the Arkansas River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191284

  • 14111-D-map.tif

    Mississippi River from the Arkansas River to Willing's Bayou.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191285

  • 13900-01-map.tif

    . : showing the changes wrought by the river above and below Vicksburg by the cut-off at Vicksburg /

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191200

  • 457_map.tif

    Course of the river Mississipi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres : taken on an expedition to the Illinois

    Ross of the 34th regiment ; improved from the surveys of that river made by the French.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191033

  • 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

  • 14191-1-map.tif

    Plat of land in Adams County : surveyed for Samuel Chamberlain and James F. McCaleb / I.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191317

  • 69739-map-01.tif

    Map of Washington County, Mississippi : showing drainage canals, public roads, railroads and public levee

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191466

  • 69739-map-02.tif

    Map of Washington County, Mississippi: showing drainage canals, public roads, railroads and public levee

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191467

  • 72670-map-01.tif

    The alluvial valley of the Mississippi River : to accompany report of Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191614

  • 14151-1-map.tif

    Map of Elliot Mission, Grenada County, Miss. / drawn by Loring S. Williams (photocopy).

    Grenada County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191300

  • 14045-1-map.tif

    A map of part of West Florida : from Pensacola to the mouth of the Iberville River, with a view to shew

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191256

  • 72534_MS_River_Flood_Map.tif

    Mississippi River Flood of 1927 : showing flooded areas and field of operations under Herbert Hoover,

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191551

  • 67719-1-map.tif

    A Sketch of Carroll County showing the lands of the state bid in for taxes for 1861 / by S. Moore.

    Carroll County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191325

  • 72518-01-map.tif

    Scarborough's new county post office map of Louisiana and Mississippi : with complete index giving population

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191541

  • 13964-1-map.tif

    Lovisiana by de Rivier Missisippi.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191237

  • 14111-7-map.tif

    Lower portion of the Chattahoochee River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191280

  • 14111-A-map.tif

    Ohio River from Pittsburg to Cincinnati.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191282

  • 14111-5-map.tif

    Southern boundary from the Mobile to the Conecuh River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191278

  • 14111-6-map.tif

    Southern boundary from the Conecuh to the Chattahoochee River.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191279

  • 14111-8-map.tif

    Mary's River from its source in the Okefenokee Swamp.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191281

  • 13990-1-map.tif

    The territory between the Chattahoochee and Mississippi Rivers / Baron de Crenay.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191241

  • 72516_map.tif

    Map showing southern portion of Harrison County from Bay St.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191538

  • 14111-2-map.tif

    Southern boundary from the Mississippi River to the north branch of Thompson's Creek.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191275

  • 14111-E-map.tif

    Southern Boundary of the United States and the Mississippi River from Fort Adams to its mouth.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191286

  • 72541-map-01.tif

    Shows counties, county seats and county supervisor beats.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191553

  • 8063-1-map.tif

    The Chickasaw country in 1796-1800 / G.H.V. Collot.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191055

  • 13910-1-map.tif

    Township no. 24 range no. 1 west [Tallahatchie County, Miss.].

    Tallahatchie County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191210

  • 72539-map-01.tif

    Shows county population, percentage of total state population, illiteracy.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191552

  • 13840-01-map.tif

    Map of the country between Milliken's Bend, La., and Jackson, Miss. : Vicksburg campaign.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191156

  • 71108-1-map.tif

    Dougherty, surveyor of Adams County (photographic copy).

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191501

  • 14033-map.tif

    A map of the country comprised in the state of Mississippi : as known in the year 1764 / by Eman.

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191254

  • 14154-1-map.tif

    Dougherty, surveyor of Adams County. Hand drawn on trace paper by Louise Hernandez.

    Adams County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191302

  • 13947_1_map.tif

    the Mitchell map (1755) to show the trail probably followed by De Soto's army from the Chickasaw country

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191231

  • 72513-01-map.tif

    Exhibit map to cross-bill in case state of Louisiana versus state of Mississippi : Supreme Court of United

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191534

  • 72484-1-map.tif

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/193043

  • 8062-01-map.tif

    Warren County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191054

  • 8108-1-map.tif

    Mobile County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191077

  • 8163-map-01.tif

    Arkansas County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191109