WY State Facts |
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Territory: Jul 25, 1868 |
Statehood: Jul 10, 1890 |
Counties: 23 |
Borders: CO, MT, NE, SD, UT and ID |
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Maps of Wyoming are a great resource to help learn about a place at a particular point in time. Old Wyoming maps are effective sources of geographical information and useful for historical, genealogical and territorial research.
Our collection of Wyoming maps includes many different historic and modern types of maps. The maps date from the 19th century to the present and include:
- Wyoming Township maps, including maps showing the progress of the original government surveys
- Wyoming Road, Highway and railroad maps
- Wyoming Maps showing the state’s geological features
- Wyoming Nautical charts
- Wyoming timeline of county boundaries changes
- Wyoming Military maps
- Wyoming Maps of specific towns, counties, islands, harbors, and bodies of water
- Colonial era maps of Wyoming
- Bird’s eye views of Wyoming cities and towns
Historical Maps of Wyoming are a great resource to help learn about a place at a particular point in time. Wyoming Maps are vital historical evidence but must be interpreted cautiously and carefully.
Wyoming Maps can be very useful in conducting research, especially in light of the now extinct communities. Also, because old Wyoming maps were usually commissioned by the county seat, they often display information about the county, including town names.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation provides detailed county maps. These maps contain more detailed information about roads and boundaries, rural communities, churches, and cemeteries.
Old Historical Atlas Maps of Wyoming
This Historical Wyoming Map Collection are from original copies. Most historical maps of Wyoming were published in atlases and spans over 200 years of growth for the state.
Some Wyoming maps years have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines, and other features useful to the Wyoming researcher.
| Asher & Adams’ 1874 State Map of the Wyoming Territory
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| 1876 State Map of the Wyoming Territory
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| Mitchell’s 1880 State, County and Township Map of Wyoming Territory
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| Cram’s 1883 Map of the Wyoming Territory
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| Cram’s 1893 State Map of Wyoming
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| Rand, McNally & Co.’s 1897 State Map of Wyoming
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Map of Wyoming County Formations 1852 to 1983
This Interactive Map of Wyoming Counties show the historical boundaries, names, organization, and attachments of every county, extinct county and unsuccessful county proposal from the creation of the Wyoming territory in 1848 to 1965.
Wyoming County Maps of Road and Highway’s
The Wyoming D.O.T. Highway Department does not have Wyoming County Maps available at this time.
External Wyoming Map Resourses
- Old Historical Maps of Wyoming (wyomingmaps.ua.edu)
- Wyoming Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers (ancestry.com)
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 (ancestry.com)
- Library of Congress Wyoming Map Collections (loc.gov)
- Wyoming Antique Maps and Historical Atlases (historicmapworks.com)
- Old Maps of Wyoming (old-maps.com)
- Wyoming Antique Maps and Historical Atlases (historicmapworks.com)
- Historical Wyoming State Maps (mapsofthepast.com)
- Antique Maps of Wyoming (raremaps.com)
- Wyoming Map Books (amazon.com)