Georgia County Maps and Atlases

Early Georgia maps are crucial for tracing colonial families. Map of Colonial Georgia, 1773–1777 (Atlanta: Georgia Surveyor General Department, 1979), which shows parish boundaries before 1777, and his Georgia Early Roads and Trails, Circa 1730–1850 (Atlanta: Georgia Surveyor General Department, 1979), which shows migration trails in the state. The Georgia Department of Archives and History also has maps of Georgia for sale showing the land lottery and the militia districts.

For changes in Georgia county boundaries, see William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790–1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), and Pat Bryant and Ingrid Shields, Georgia Counties: Their Changing Boundaries (Atlanta: Georgia Surveyor General Department, 1983).

The largest collection of historical Georgia maps includes some 30,000 items, with many county maps, and large, detailed state maps can be found at the Georgia Department of Archives and History.

Rotating Formation Georgia Boundary County Maps

(Maps made with the use AniMap Plus County Boundary Historical AniMap 3.0 and with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)

County Formation years
1758	1763	1777	1783	1784	1785	1786	1788	1790	1793	1796	1798	1801	1802
1803	1805	1807	1808	1809	1811	1812	1818	1819	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825
1826	1827	1828	1830	1831	1832	1833	1837	1838	1850	1851	1852	1853	1854
1856	1857	1858	1860	1870	1875	1905	1906	1912	1914	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920	1924	1932

Map Abbreviations
unorg. = unorganized g. = gained w. = with fr. = from atmt. = attachment exch = exchanged nca.= non county area ch. = changed Ap - Appling At - Atkinson Bac - Bacon Bak - Baker Bal - Baldwin Ban - Banks Ber - Berrien BH - Ben Hill Bib - Bibb Bl - Bleckley Bra - Brantley Bro - Brooks Brw - Barrow Bry - Bryan Btw - Bartow Bul - Bulloch Bur - Burke But - Butts Cal - Calhoun Can - Candler Car - Carroll Cat - Catoosa Cbl - Campbell Cdn - Camden Chn - Charlton	Clb - Columbia Cli - Clinch Clk - Clarke Cly - Clay Cob - Cobb Cof - Coffee Coo - Cook Cow - Coweta Cqt - Colquitt Cra - Crawford Cri - Crisp Crk - Cherokee Cte - Chattahoochee Ctg - Chattooga Ctm - Chatham Ctn - Clayton Dad - Dade Daw - Dawson Dec - Decatur Dgs - Douglas DK - De Kalb Dod - Dodge Doo - Dooly Dty - Dougherty Ea - Early Ec - Echols Ef - Effingham El - Elbert Em - Emanuel Ev - Evans Fan - Fannin Fay - Fayette Fl - Floyd Fo - Forsyth	Fr - Franklin Fu - Fulton Gi - Gilmer Gla - Glascock Gly - Glynn Go - Gordon Gra - Grady Gre - Greene Gw - Gwinnett Hab - Habersham Hal - Hall Han - Hancock Hea - Heard Hen - Henry Ho - Houston Hrs - Harris Hrt - Hart Hsn - Haralson Ir - Irwin Jac - Jackson Jas - Jasper JD - Jeff Davis Jfn - Jefferson Jkn - Jenkins Joh - Johnson Jon - Jones Lam - Lamar Lan - Lanier Lau - Laurens Lee - Lee Lib - Liberty Lin - Lincoln Lon - Long Low - Lowndes	Lu - Lumpkin Mac - Macon Mad - Madison Mar - Marion McD - McDuffie McI - McIntosh Me - Meriwether Mit - Mitchell Mlr - Miller Mor - Morgan Mro - Monroe Mtn - Milton Mty - Montgomery Mur - Murray Mus - Muscogee Ne - Newton Oc - Oconee Og - Oglethorpe Pa - Paulding Pe - Peach Pic - Pickens Pie - Pierce Pik - Pike Po - Polk Pul - Pulaski Put - Putnam Qu - Quitman Rab - Rabun Ran - Randolph Ri - Richmond Ro - Rockdale Scr - Screven Se - Seminole Sp - Spalding	Spn - Stephens Su - Sumter Swt - Stewart Tat - Tattnall Tay - Taylor Tbt - Talbot Tel - Telfair Ter - Terrell Tfo Taliaferro Th - Thomas Ti - Tift Too - Toombs Tow - Towns Tre - Treutlen Tro - Troup Tu - Turner Tw - Twiggs Un - Union Up - Upson Was - Washington Way - Wayne Wcx - Wilcox We - Webster Wfd - Whitfield Whe - Wheeler Wkr - Walker Wks - Wilkes Wo - Worth Wre - Ware Wrn - Warren Wsn - Wilkinson Wte - White Wtn - Walton

Georgia County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

PLEASE READ!! These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format. The main use of these are the locations of all known cemeteries in a county and of course the various roads and church locations

The Georgia Highway Department has prepared a seriesof county road maps. These maps contain more detailed information about man-made features than the geological survey maps. In addition to roads and boundaries, these maps include rural communities, churches, and cemeteries. The maps are available for a nominal fee from the Georgia Department of Transportation, 2 Capitol Sq., Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

To View the Map: Just click the Image to view the map online. In order to make the Image size as small as possible they were save on the lowest resolution. If you order an image they are printed at the highest resolution. (Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so loading may be slow if using a dial-up connection)

Georgia Atlases

Disclaimer: All maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution

These are scanned from the original copies so you can see the states and counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in North America.

All formats are pdf. Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so allow a few moments to load if you are using a dial-up connection.


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