Information was gathered from several checklists (see below) along with historical county information, to create an authoritative listing of early Pennsylvania maps and atlases. Many atlases have not been scanned yet.

Index of Maps and Atlases available at the Chester County Archives research room organized by township.

Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania: from original surveys. [Philadelphia?: s.n, 1847] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2012592159/>. General-content county map showing schools, meetinghouses, smithies, inns, post-offices, etc.; does not show landowners'/householders' names.

Atlas Name: Chester County 1873, Publisher: A. R. Witmer, Publish Date: 1873; Location: Pennsylvania

The ‘very’ earliest county map is the 1687 map of Thomas Holme, A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pennsylvania in America divided into Countyes Townships and Lotts. This map showed the counties of Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks, the founding counties of the state created in 1682.

Check the Chester County Historical Society, the Tri-County Heritage Society, and Chester County Archives & Records Services for copies. These maps show the tracts according to metes and bounds and include the survey numbers so that the original surveys can be obtained from the Pennsylvania Archives in Harrisburg.

Jan 24, 2017 · LOC Zoomable Map for Chester The ADC Map folks produce county maps divided up on pages of a book about 10X14...because only a small section of the map is on each page, they are able to be wonderfully complete, including churches, cemeteries, historic sites, Quaker meeting houses, POs, points of interest, museums, libraries, all roads and ...

Map #189 - Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1847 From Original Surveys, by S. M. Painter & J. S. Bowen, West Chester, 1847

The Chester County Archives is administered by the Chester County Historical Society in cooperation with the County of Chester. Chester County Archives staff has produced a tutorial on how to access early Chester County maps and deed books online. You …

Links to Pennsylvania county maps dating from the 1850s through the 1870s are included below. The maps on this page were specifically chosen because they depict a plethora of surface and subterranean features, such as businesses, churches, …