This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/1915.5 Message Board Post: Kay, I found an 1874 geological map of Jasper County posted at http://198.209.227.6/maps/data/DM55228959.asp. I couldn't get it to print well, but I can make out most details when I "zoom in" Another interesting site I found is one in which a genealogy hobbyist posted photos of the mines in Ottawa County, OK. This site is located at http://www.homestead.com/schehrer2/. The pictures will give you a flavor of what the boomtown Tri State area looked like--most all the mines in the tri-state area were built and closed down at roughly the same times. Both my father and my grandfather (when living) repeatedly mentioned that miners were always moving around to different employers in the area between Ottawa County, OK, Cherokee County, KS, and Jasper County MO. . As a child my father moved around between Picher, OK, Baxter Springs, KS and Galena/Joplin MO. When I went to "look" for my great-grandfather in the 1900 census (he had died very young and no one knew anything about that side of the family), I "found" him working and living in Cherokee County KS while his parents and younger siblings lived in Joplin. So if you are having any trouble locating relatives that you knew were in the area and worked the mines, try "looking" for them in all of those states/counties.