ALABAMA MAPS INDEX

Posted on November 21, 2019June 18, 2020 by Staff

Alabama Maps Index

In addition to our collection of historical maps, we have created maps of some Alabama counties and several special purpose maps. Please remember that our maps normally contain only locations we have personally visited or researched for some reason or other. With this said, you will find points of interest overlooked or ignored by other mapmakers.

1718 Map of Gulf Coast Region

Historical map in possession of Chicago’s Historical Society. The map is titled “PORTION OF DE LISLE’S CARTE DE LOUISIANA, 1718.” Shows (a) De Soto’s wanderings in 1540; (b) La Salle’s landing, his hourney to the interior, and the place of his death; (c) Tonti’s Journey to the Chickasaws; (d) the old forts at Biloxi, on Mobile Bay, and on the Mississippi River Below New Orleans; (e) route of Bienville from Tensas village to Red River.

Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l’Isle was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.

1733 Map by Baron de Crenay

Detail of Baron de Crenay’s 1733 map of French colonial Louisiana, showing Indian trails (in red) in the area that would later become southwestern Alabama (courtesy of the Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris).

1734 Map of La Louisiane

1760 Map of Colonies

This is a map of eastern section of North America showing the establishment and growth of British, French, and Spanish settlements up to 1760. Different colors are used to show the settlements. A legend is provided for explanation. The map shows states divisions, military forts, cities and towns, and some important roads. The map also shows physical features like lakes, rivers, and mountains. Relief is shown by hachure. In the lower right margin has a statement “The Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, N.Y. The Complete Press.” This map is an original printed copy and is laminated. Besides, a small torn part on the left margin, the map is in a fairly good condition.

1798 – 1817 Mississippi Territory

1804 Map of Mississippi Territory

1813 General Jackson’s Campaign against the Creek Indians, 1813 & 1814

1813 – 1814 Creek War Map

1814 Mississippi Territory Map

1815 Mobile Alabama Map

1823 Alabama Map

1826 Alabama Map

1826 Map of Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama

1835 Alabama and Mississippi

Bradford Map of 1835 Alabama and Mississippi showing Cherokee and Creek Nations before the secession of those territories.

1836 Alabama Map

1839 Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads

1841 Map of The City of Old St Stephens

1850 Alabama

From an atlas published by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., including steamboat routes, railroads, and “roads and distances.

1859 Alabama Map

1863 Streight’s Raid Route

Route of Streight’s Raid through Northern Alabama, which started at Nashville and was eventually headed for Rome, GA. Streight’s Raid included the Battle of Day’s Gap.

Straight-lines simply connect the places in chronological order and should not be considered anywhere near accurate route paths.

1875 Madison County Alabama Map

1878 Gray’s New Map of Alabama

1887 Map if Montgomery Alabama

1888 Map of Alabama

Shows drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, and the railroad network in colored lines. Prepared expressly for the Tenth (10th) Annual report of the Railroad Commissioners of Alabama.”

1895 Map of Alabama

1915 Map of Alabama

General Land Office map.

1919 Mobile Alabama

1943 Chickasaw Alabama Topo Map

1945 Alabama Points of Interest

1975 Alabama Historic Roads and Trails

Alabama North-East Region Maps

Alabama North-West Region Maps

Alabama Central-East Region Maps

Alabama Central-West Region Maps

Alabama Regions Map

Alabama South-East Region Map

Alabama Airports Map

Alabama Counties and County Seats

Alcohol Sales in Alabama

American Indian Nations Map

Battle of Horseshoe Bend Map

Bankhead National Forest Recreation Map

Bankhead Forest Topo Map

Bankhead National Forest Map

Bibb County Alabama Map

Bibb County Historic Sites

Blount County Alabama Map

Butler County Alabama Map

Baldwin County Alabama Map

Bankhead Forest Topo Map

Bankhead Forest Recreation Map

Blue Creek Alabama Placer Gold Deposits Map

Calhoun County Alabama Map

Capture of Mobile Alabama Civil War Map

A regional view of Mobile and environs, encompassing Mobile, Blakely, Spanish Fort, Alabama City, Williamsburg, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, and Fort Orwell. Also shows defenses of Mobile Bay, including use of torpedoes (mines), spikes, and sunken logs. The city of Mobile was abandoned by the Confederates on the night of April 11-20th, 1865.

Caverns and Caves Map

Caves in Alabama

Conecuh National Forest Recreation Map

Chambers County Alabama Map

Cherokee County Alabama Map

Chilton County Alabama Gold Mines Map

Chilton County Alabama Map

Choctaw County Alabama Map

Civil War Sites Map

Cleburn County Alabama Map

Colbert County Alabama Map

Day’s Gap Battlefield Map

The Battle of Day’s Gap, fought on April 30, 1863, was the first in a series of American Civil War skirmishes in Cullman County, Alabama, that lasted until May 2, known as Streight’s Raid. Commanding the Union forces was Col. Abel Streight; Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led the Confederate forces.

Military Map No. 54

Military map no. 54, prepared as basis for additional surveys

Scale 1:380,160. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 102.8 General map of southern Alabama and West Florida showing roads, railroads, towns, drainage, and a few names of residents along the Tensaw River. Description derived from published bibliography. Map is incomplete; the bottom border is missing. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

Contributor: Hains, Peter C. (Peter Conover) – Holtz, Helmuth – Hains, Peter C.
Date: 1864

Rebel Defences of Mobile

Rebel Line of Works at Blakely

Scale 1:14,400. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 104 Union positions are colored blue, and Confederate works are red. Includes roads, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures. Description derived from published bibliography.

Selma Alabama and Vicinity Civil War Map

Shows fortifications. Relief shown by hachures. Printed on blue paper. Mounted on paper. In pencil in top right hand corner: 1864, 61. Pencil notes in right margin. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S17, 111

Seige Operations At Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay

Siege operations at Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay, by the U.S. forces under Maj. Gen. Canby : captured by the Army of West Miss. on the night of April 8 & 9, 1865

Clarke County Alabama Map

Clay County Alabama Map

Cleburne County Alabama Gold Mines

Colbert County Alabama Map

Conecuh National Forest Recreation Map

Coosa County Alabama Map

Coosa Valley of Alabama

Counties by Race Percentage

County Seats of Alabama

Covington County Alabama Map

Cullman County Alabama Map

Dale County Alabama Map

Dallas County Alabama Map

Day’s Gap Battlefield Map

DeKalb County Alabama Map

Early American Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Lingustic Stocks Map

by William C. Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, 1966

Early Forts of Alabama Map

Early Roads and Routes in Alabama circa 1800-1839

Elmore County Alabama

Escambia County Alabama Map

Farmers’ Markets & U-Picks

Fayette County Alabama Map

Federal Lands and Indian Reservations in Alabama

Franklin County Alabama Map

Ghost Towns of Alabama Map

Golf Courses Map

Great Appalachian Valley Map

Greene County Alabama Map

Gulf Coast Region Map

Haunted Places Map

Historic Landmarks Map

Historic Roads and Trails

Houston County Alabama Map

Hunting Camps & Hunting Guides Map

Huntsville Alabama Map

Indian Land Areas Judiciay Established 1978

The “Indian Land Areas Judicially Established 1978” map was prepared by the United States Geological Survey at a scale of 1:4,000,000, Albers projection from information provided by the Indian Claims Commission. The map portrays the results of cases before the commission in which an Indian tribe proved its original tribal occupancy of a tract within the continental United States.

Indian Locations & Land Cessions

Indian Villages and Forts Map

Indian Villages and Forts of the Coosa-Tallapoosa River Region

Source: Hstorical Atlas of Alabama, Volume 1, Historic Locations by County
Produced by Cartographic Research Lab, University of Alabama

Indian Trails: Catawba and Unicoi Trails

Catawba and Unicoi Road map from Saluda Gap to Knoxville together with the Great Indian Warpath, and Great Valley Road, the main pathways into East Tennessee. Shows Great Indian Warpath in to and out of North Alabama.

Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi

Indian-Tribes-of-the-Lower-Mississippi by John R. Swanton, 1909. Bureau of American Enthology, Bulletin 43

Jackson County Alabama Map

Lakes in Alabama

Lamar County Alabama Map

Lauderdale County Alabama Map

Lawrence County Alabama Map

Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 brought into the United States about 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known at the time as the Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. Part or all of 15 states were eventually created from the land deal, which is considered one of the most important achievements of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency.