Can anyone help me find maps

L0S3R · Sep 21, 2019

I’m trying but failing. I need old maps for cabell county West Virginia and Lawrence county Ohio. The older the better. I’m no good at this so please help?!

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AirmetTango · Sep 21, 2019

Here’s 1887 for Lawrence County:

Historic Map Works, Lawrence County, OH: 1887

L0S3R · Sep 21, 2019

AirmetTango said:
Here’s 1887 for Lawrence County:

Historic Map Works, Lawrence County, OH: 1887

Those are great I’ll have to look them over, looking for old farm fields... particularly in kitts hill

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AirmetTango · Sep 21, 2019

I’m not sure how comfortable you are with Google Earth or how tech savvy you are in general, but I have great success finding farm fields to hunt by superimposing old county maps for my area into Google Earth using the “overlay” feature of the program.

It seems intimidating at first, but it’s easy once you figure out how to do it...and well worth the effort! For my area at least, I’ve identified literally hundreds of former home sites, farmsteads, and ghost towns that are nothing but farm fields now thanks to those overlays...enough to keep me busy for several lifetimes of detecting!

Here’s an example of a print out I made of a map overlay I did using 1886 maps - all I do is look up the owner of any field that has black box in it from the 1886 map for permission, then go find old stuff :yes:

I take the print with me when I ask permission so the owner knows exactly where I’m talking about:

L0S3R · Sep 21, 2019

AirmetTango said:
I’m not sure how comfortable you are with Google Earth or how tech savvy you are in general, but I have great success finding farm fields to hunt by superimposing old county maps for my area into Google Earth using the “overlay” feature of the program.

It seems intimidating at first, but it’s easy once you figure out how to do it...and well worth the effort! For my area at least, I’ve identified literally hundreds of former home sites, farmsteads, and ghost towns that are nothing but farm fields now thanks to those overlays...enough to keep me busy for several lifetimes of detecting!

I know the farms I just need old maps of them. I have a certain field I have 100% access anytime I want... just need to know what was there before and where

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AirmetTango · Sep 21, 2019

Ah, I see! Still, overlays can sometimes help, depending how big the area is. I sometimes use an app called Maprika in the field - you can overlay a photo of any map onto a live Google map, and using your phone GPS you can practically walk up to the former front door of whatever location you’re trying to find. I once was wondering around a farm field trying to find the debris field from a long gone home site. After quite a while of fruitless searching, I loaded the overlay into Maprika, and was able to immediately walk straight to the right location - I had been at least 100 yards off target!

L0S3R · Sep 21, 2019

AirmetTango said:
Ah, I see! Still, overlays can sometimes help, depending how big the area is. I sometimes use an app called Maprika in the field - you can overlay a photo of any map onto a live Google map, and using your phone GPS you can practically walk up to the former front door of whatever location you’re trying to find. I once was wondering around a farm field trying to find the debris field from a long gone home site. After quite a while of fruitless searching, I loaded the overlay into Maprika, and was able to immediately walk straight to the right location - I had been at least 100 yards off target!

But where do you get the good, old maps to overlay? If you can’t tell this is definitely not my specialty. I know this farm was a dairy farm way back when, but I have no dates or locations. I know where the well was/is and 1 barn.

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Silver_Seeker · Oct 3, 2019

When you zero in on a farm, Google your state, county, or town and LIDAR. It can show you exactly where the holes are.

B-B · Oct 3, 2019

Try this website, I use it all the time. You can get aerials and topos going back many years.
https://www.historicaerials.com/

cellrdwellr · Oct 3, 2019

B-B said:
Try this website, I use it all the time. You can get aerials and topos going back many years.
https://www.historicaerials.com/

I use it almost daily, I have found so many good spots using that site.

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