Mapping Virginia

Wow, what a topic. There are maps of Virginia from 500 years ago, and maps just produced today for new "enhanced 911" programs. (It's hard to dispatch a fire truck or ambulance to an address like PO Box 1234, so most Virginia counties are creating new addresses for houses on rural mail routes and providing maps to emergency personnel...)

> Source: Ray Sterner, Applied Physics Lab of Johns Hopkins University

Boundaries of Virginia

Find a Particular Place in Virginia

GIS Data Layers - Virginia

Locate Virginia on the Globe - and in the Galaxy

Surveying in Virginia

Links

• 1895 State and County maps
• A Map of the Plan of the Investment and Attack of York in Virginia (1781)
• About.com Geography
  • animated map of evolving state and county boundaries from Ed Stephan
  • Mason-Dixon Line
• American Gazetteer (first gazetteer in America)
  • notice what Virginia locations he included in his 1797 map of North America...
• American Library Association: Maps and mapping resources
• Ancestry.com maps of Virginia
  • Ll oyd's Official Map of Virginia, 1828 and 1859
  • Map of Northern Virginia, 1861
  • Map of Eastern Virginia, 1864
  • Map of counties, county seats, and independent cities in Virginia
• Applied Physics Lab of Johns Hopkins University (Ray Sterner): Virginia Maps
• Arlington County online maps
• Association of American Geographers
• Middle Atlantic Division of the
• Census Bureau
• Gazetteer
Tiger Mapping Service
• Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic from Space (at Towson University)
• county boundaries in Virginia
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• Maps, Gazetteers & Geographical Information
• Virginia
• "Confluences" of Virginia
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• DeedMapper : Deed Data Pool (for viewing boundaries of colonial patents)
• Digital Atlas of Washington D.C. and Vicinity (by Bill Bowen)
• Directions Magazine
• Fundamentals of GPS
• Eastern Shore of Virginia Network
  • Eastern Shore
  • Accomack
  • Northampton
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Envirofacts maps
• Enviromapper
• Maps by River Basin (BASININFO)

• eParka.com
  • online mapper for Virginia
• ESRI
  • Community Atlas
  • Geography Network
  • Virtual Campus
• Fairfax County Maps
• Fairfax County GIS Themes and Attributes
• Fairfax Time Machine"
• Fairfax Estate (in "History of Mt. Storm Community" - Grant and Mineral Counties, West Virginia)
• George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker
• including his survey of Belhaven(Alexandria)
• Geography - George Mason University
• Geologic maps:
  • Simplified Geologic Map of Virginia (also in PDF and with cities and major highways))
• GeoStat (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) at University of Virginia Library
• Virginia Specific GIS Data and Links
• GIS Cafe - Maps 101 - Topographic Maps, The Basics
• GIS Lounge
• Global Land Cover Facility
• GlobeExplorer imagery
• GoogleEarth
• Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web
• Hargrett Library (University of Georgia) Rare Map Collection
  • A map of the British empire in America [Popple 1733]
  • A Map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Maryland with part of New Jersey [for R.Baldwin 1755]
  • Virginia A.D. 1607 [and] Cherokee county prior to 1776 [2 maps by Woolley 1776]
  • A map of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia [Purcell 1788]
  • Map of battles on Bull Run near Manassas (Bamberger 1861)
  • Seat of war. Manassas and vicinity. (Baumgarten 1861)
  • Map of the seat of war in Virginia (Duncan 1862) Note: the "seat" is in Northern Virginia..."
  • [General Joseph] Johnson's map of the vicinity of Richmond, and Peninsula Campaign (Johnson 1862)
  • Map of Richmond, Virginia and surrounding country showing rebel fortifications. (Sholl 1864)
• Historical Maps of Virginia (University of Alabama)
• "How far is it between..."
• I-Maps Outdoor Adventure Guide
• LandNet Corp. - LandViewer
• Library of Congress
• Civil War Maps
• railroad maps
  • A map of the internal improvements of Virginia prepared by C. Crozet:
  • Consolidated Southern Railway map shows Virginia RR's in 1883
• Library of Virginia
• Board of Public Works
• Maps
• map projections
• Maplink
• Maps101
• Maptech Mapserver
• NASA
  • Astronaut Photography of Earth
  • Blue Marble
  • Destination Earth
  • Visible Earth
• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA):
  • Buffalo
  • Maine
  • Santa Barbara
• National Geographic:
  • physical geography maps
  • National Geographic - Virginia
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency
• New River Valley - 1835 Map
• Newberry Library - Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
• Virginia
• Consolidated Chronology of State and County Boundaries
• Individual County Chronologies
• NOAA
  • Civil War Maps of Virginia
  • National Geophysical Data Center: The Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project
  • compute the magnetic declination
  • Virginia topography (and flat West Virginia...)
  • National Virtual Data System
  • nowCoast
• North American Numbering Plan - telephone area codes
• Oddens Bookmarks - The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Virginia maps
• Historical US City Maps
  • Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee (in 1919)
  • Charlottesville (in 1919)
  • Fredericksburg (1920)
  • Lynchburg (1920)
  • Norfolk (1920)
  • Norfolk and Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton and Old Point Comfort, Fortress Monroe (1919)
  • Petersburg (1920)
  • Richmond (1919)
  • Roanoke (1919)
  • Staunton (1919)
• Prince William County Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Division
• Spatial News
• Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, by Richard Edwards (NOTE: an 1854 publication)
• TerraFly
• Terraserver
• TopoZone
• University of Virginia
  • Virginia Digital Map Library
    • Statewide Maps
    • Regional Maps
    • Charlottesville Area Maps
  • US Geological Survey (USGS)
    • Blue Ridge topography (image)
    • Downloading and Formatting Earth Images from Terraserver for Recreational, Scientific, Educational, and GIS Use
    • Earth Explorer
    • GISData
    • Global Visualization
    • Land Cover Characterization Program
    • National Atlas
    • National Mapping Applications
    • National Geologic Map Database
    • Temporal Urban Mapping [showing changes in Baltimore-Washington area]
    • Web Mapping Portal
  • Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
    • Virginia Maps
• US Minerals Management Service (MMS) - summary graphic to explain offshore boundaries
• VARGIS
• Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions - Geographic Information Systems
• Virginia Geographic Alliance
  • Atlas of Virginia: 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries
  • Generalized landforms
  • Native Americans about 1600
  • Colonial trade patterns
  • Settlement between 1607-1700
  • Settlement, 1700-1775
  • Territorial claims, 1763
  • Overland trade patterns
  • Industry and Slavery (about 1860)
  • Transportation links about 1860
• Virtual Earth (Microsoft) - Virginia
• Virtual Jamestown
• The Jamestown Experience: Original Maps
• Washington Post
• 1997 election
• Election Maps
• WEBGIS.net
• West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection - Interactive Mapper