Does anyone know if there are any maps that could show the exact location someone lived at in 1880 by using the 1880 Census info. My GrGrGrandparents are listed, not living in a town, how could I find out exactly where they lived, I know they lived on a farm & didn't own the land. I would appreciate any help. Thanks Stan Howen [email protected]
The top of the census page should give you a township. Say Godfrey Township [6-10] or township 06 north by range 10 west. Townships are divided into 36 sections. Sections are 640 acres. With all that using http://www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/data_lan.html searching a section at a time, you maybe able to bracket him with neighbors in the census. Kent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: [ILMADISO-L] 1880 Census Maps > Does anyone know if there are any maps that could show the exact location someone lived at in 1880 by using the 1880 Census info. My GrGrGrandparents are listed, not living in a town, how could I find out exactly where they lived, I know they lived on a farm & didn't own the land. > I would appreciate any help. > Thanks > Stan Howen > [email protected] > > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Difference between ILMADISO-L and ILMADISO-D: > ILMADISO-L mailing list allows you to receive every posting made to ILMADISO as a separate email. > ILMADISO-D mailing list allows you to receive several postings as a single large message. >
Here are some urls to try for maps. Otherwise you need to have someone who has a Madison Co plat book to look it up on a plat map. You will need the township, range and section to get an exact point of the farm. Probably old plat maps at the courthouse or libraries in Madison. If you are looking at an original copy of the 1880 census, it may have the township, range and section at the top of the pages. If you use the cd one from LDS, they didn't use the range, etc, just used the post office the person would be using for where they lived. An old map of Madison: http://www.livgenmi.com/madisonIL.htm Another place you might search: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/igis/illinois/counties/madison2.htm http://george.peabody.yale.edu/gnis/ This would get your approximate degrees for latitude and longitude for Madison: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/maps1/il_c.gif Be sure and copy and paste this whole url in your browser window: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=38.8318&lon=-89.9082&wid=.3&ht=.3&mlat=38.8318&mlon=-89.9082&msym=redpin&mlabel=Madison+County,+Illinois If you have the lat and long for your place, you can use this url to search for the exact location by using the lat and long (turn it on) then keep zooming in. Latitude 38.8318, Longitude 89.9082 degrees for Madison Co IL Good luck. At 10:46 AM 5/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone know if there are any maps that could show the exact >location someone lived at in 1880 by using the 1880 Census info. >My GrGrGrandparents are listed, not living in a town, how could I >find out exactly where they lived, I know they lived on a farm & >didn't own the land. >I would appreciate any help. >Thanks >Stan Howen >[email protected] > > >==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== >Difference between ILMADISO-L and ILMADISO-D: >ILMADISO-L mailing list allows you to receive every posting made >to ILMADISO as a separate email. >ILMADISO-D mailing list allows you to receive several postings as >a single large message.