Compiled from Government Surveys,
County Records and Personal Investigations
Everts & Kirk, 1885
The
Official State Atlas of Nebraska... CD is an abridged digital version that contains high resolution (400 dpi) scanned images of vintage 19th century maps that are presented in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). All of the 1885 Nebraska county maps are included on this CD, as are 297 city and village plat maps from this period.
Unlike many digital reproductions created from aged and worn originals, these scans are crisp, clean and completely legible throughout. The example maps of a section of
Dakota County and the
Village of Waverly plat are representative of the content found on this Atlas CD. Please note: image quality purposely reduced for web presentation.
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The Nebraska atlas maps include the following 19th century features:
- roads, railroads and canals
- cities, towns and villages
- post offices and government sites
- one-room schoolhouses, churches and cemeteries
- rivers, streams and ferries
- race tracks, fair grounds and picnic groves
- industrial sites, furnaces and mills
- early homesteads and farms (occasional)
-and much more
The 1885
Official State Atlas of Nebraska is an invaluable aid to Genealogists, Historians and all researchers in search of 19th century Nebraska places and place names.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader for MS Windows is needed to view, zoom, pan and print from the PDF map images contained in this atlas; and is included free on each CD.
No other software is necessary. The map data has been created and configured using the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (6.0) for MS Windows (98, 98SE, XP, NT and 2000). The maps may be viewed in earlier versions of the software as well; however, optimum use of the data can be expected using the Adobe Reader 6.0 that is included on this CD.