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. "rankin county").

Showing results 1-50 of 297 for rankin county

  • 85875-1-map.tif

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

    Rankin County

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

  • 69304-map-01.tif

    Grenada County.

    Grenada County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191357

  • 69320-map-01.tif

    Humphreys County.

    Humphreys County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191360

  • 69323-map-01.tif

    Itawamba County.

    Itawamba County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191361

  • 69332-map-01.tif

    Jefferson County.

    Jefferson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191362

  • 69335-map-01.tif

    Jefferson County.

    Jefferson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191364

  • 69337-map-01.tif

    Jones County.

    Jones County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191365

  • 69724-map-01.tif

    Wilkinson County.

    Wilkinson County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191457

  • 69728-map-01.tif

    Washington County. The reverse contains a January 21, 1921, letter to Dunbar Rowland from W. A.

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191460

  • 69728-map-02.tif

    Washington County. The reverse contains a January 21, 1921, letter to Dunbar Rowland from W. A.

    Washington County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191461

  • 69734-01-map.tif

    Tishomingo County / Joe Bell, former Secy of State.

    Tishomingo County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191463

  • 69735-map-01.tif

    Tippah County.

    Tippah County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191464

  • 69752-map-01.tif

    Panola County.

    Panola County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191474

  • 69755-map-01-c2.tif

    Noxubee County.

    Noxubee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191476

  • 69756-map-01.tif

    Noxubee County.

    Noxubee County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191477

  • 69757-map-01-c1.tif

    Neshoba County.

    Neshoba County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191478

  • 69759-map-01.tif

    Montgomery County.

    Montgomery County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191479

  • 69761-map-01.tif

    Marshall County.

    Marshall County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191481

  • 69765-map-01.tif

    Madison County.

    Madison County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191484

  • 69775-map-01.tif

    Lafayette County.

    Lafayette County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191491

  • 82424-01-map.tif

    County highway maps (annotated), 1938-1996. Marion County map.

    Marion County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191634

  • 69307-map-01.tif

    George County, Mississippi.

    George County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191358

  • 69344-map-01.tif

    Hinds County, Mississippi / Richard I. Scott, del.

    Hinds County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191368

  • 69737-map-01.tif

    Tippah County, Mississippi.

    Tippah County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191465

  • 69748-1-map.tif

    Pontotoc County, Mississippi / historians of Pontotoc County.

    Pontotoc County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191472

  • 69753-map-01.tif

    Oktibbeha County, Mississippi / by John H.

    Oktibbeha County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191475

  • 69776-map-1.tif

    Bolivar County, T17R5W.

    Bolivar County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191492

  • 69779-map-01.tif

    Claiborne County, Mississippi.

    Claiborne County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191494

  • 69723-map-01.tif

    Winston County, Mississippi [map] / LaSueur.

    Winston County

    https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/928318

  • 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

  • 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