North Carolina State and County Maps and Atlases

North Carolina Maps are an invaluable part of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because North Carolina political boundaries often changed, historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor’s hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and more.

North Carolina County Formation Map

(North Carolina maps made with the use AniMap Plus 3.0 & with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)

North Carolina Antique Maps & Atlases

See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.

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

Disclaimer: All North Carolina maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution.Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

North Carolina County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. 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. Official NCDOT County Maintenance Maps are being generated into TIF and PDF. In each county, sheet number "MAIN" always shows the entire county. Each supplemental sheet shows area insets, usually congested areas. A sheet key is shown for any county that requires more than 2 sheets.

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.

These maps are downloadable and are in PDF format (Images are between 500k and 1.5 meg so loading may be slow if using a dial-up connection). The main use of these are the locations of all known cemeteries in a county and of course the various roads and church locations. These Maps are Free to Download

Alamance [1] – [2] – [3]
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Alexander [1] – [2]
Alleghany [1]
Anson [1] – [2]
Ashe [1]
Avery [1] – [2]
Beaufort [1] – [2] – [3]
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Bertie [1] – [2]
Bladen [1] – [2]
Brunswick [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6] – [7]
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Buncombe [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6]
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Burke [1] – [2] – [3]
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Cabarrus [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Caldwell [1] – [2] – [3]
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Camden [1]
Carteret [1] – [2] – [3]
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Caswell [1]
Catawba [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Chatham [1] – [2] – [3]
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Cherokee [1] – [2] – [3]
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Chowan [1]
Clay [1]
Cleveland [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6]
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Columbus [1] – [2] – [3]
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Craven [1] – [2] – [3]
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Cumberland [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Currituck [1] – [2]
Dare [1] – [2] – [3]
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Davidson [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6] – [7] – [8]
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Davie [1] – [2]
Duplin [1] – [2] – [3]
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Durham [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Edgecombe [1] – [2] – [3]
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Forsyth [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6]
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Franklin [1]
Gaston [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Gates [1]
Graham [1] – [2]
Granville [1] – [2]
Greene [1]
Guilford [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]- [7]- [8]- [9]- [10]
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Halifax [1] – [2]
Harnett [1] – [2]
Haywood [1] – [2] – [3]
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Henderson [1] – [2] – [3]
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Hertford [1]
Hoke [1]
Hyde [1] – [2]
Iredell [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Jackson [1] – [2] – [3]
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Johnston [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Jones [1]
Lee [1] – [2]
Lenoir [1] – [2]
Lincoln [1] – [2] – [3]
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McDowell [1] – [2] – [3]
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Macon [1] – [2]
Madison [1] – [2] – [3]
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Martin [1] – [2]
Mecklenburg [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6] – [7] – [8]
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Mitchell [1] – [2]
Montgomery [1] – [2]
Moore [1] – [2] – [3]
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Nash [1] – [2]
New Hanover [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6]
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Northampton [1] – [2]
Onslow [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Orange [1] – [2]
Pamlico [1] – [2]
Pasquotank [1]
Pender [1] – [2] – [3]
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Perquimans [1]
Person [1]
Pitt [1] – [2] – [3]
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Polk [1]
Randolph [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Richmond [1] – [2] – [3]
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Robeson [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Rockingham [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Rowan [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Rutherford [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Sampson [1] – [2]
Scotland [1] – [2]
Stanly [1] – [2] – [3] – [4]
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Stokes [1] – [2]
Surry County [1] – [2] – [3]
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Swain [1] – [2]
Transylvania [1] – [2]
Tyrrell [1]
Union [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5] – [6] – [7]
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Vance [1]
Wake [1]-[2]-[3] – [4] – [5] – [6] – [7] – [8] – [9]
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Warren [1] – [2]
Washington [1]
Watauga [1] – [2]
Wayne [1] – [2] – [3]
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Wilkes [1] – [2] – [3]
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Wilson [1] – [2] – [3] – [4] – [5]
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Yadkin [1]
Yancey [1] – [2]

North Carolina Map Description & Links

North Carolina Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.net)
North Carolina Maps (lib.unc.edu) North Carolina Maps is a comprehensive, online collection of historic maps of the Tar Heel State.
North Carolina Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com) Maps are an invaluable part of family history research, especially if you live far from where your ancestor lived. Because political boundaries often changed, historic maps are critical in helping you discover the precise location of your ancestor’s hometown, what land they owned, who their neighbors were, and more.
North Carolina Maps (lib.utexas.edu) The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
Historical Maps of North Carolina (alabamamaps.ua.edu)
North Carolina Maps Description (ancestry.com) from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
North Carolina USGenWeb Archives Digital Map Library (usgwarchives.org)
North Carolina Map Books (amazon.com)

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Maps of North Carolina

North Carolina County Formation Map

North Carolina Antique Maps & Atlases

See U.S. State & County Boundary Maps and Antique Atlases to view free map images of antique maps & atlases maps during the years 1732 to 1897 for the entire United States as well as other states and countries.

North Carolina County D.O.T. Road and Highway Maps

North Carolina Map Description & Links

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