The URL below is a website that finds locations of US places. If you can't find a map with your ancestor's home area on it, try this website. I tested it with the Minnesota place name where I went to High School and it worked well, providing a map and latitude and longitude. I then tried other place names like Severance (a township in Sibley County), St. George, Sibley County and West Newton, Brown County. I got no result on any of those searches. I am guessing that it works only with names of cities, towns and villages found in a current US Atlas or Gazetteer.` http://www.goldbug.com/map/sitefinder.html