Did you try the on-line USGS topographical maps ? I found maps for my ancestral Virginia Swamps. A handy search engine for hard to find places is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names at http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ The results for my Swamps were expressed in Longitude and Latitude co-ordinates and indicated the maps were USGS and indicated what the feature types were (i.e. streams, creeks , etc). The maps are NOT at the Getty site. The next step is to go to the USGS site : http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html At this site you can enter the name and "feature type"......but , be careful....when I entered "Hunting Quarter Swamp" (as I had in the Getty d'base)....it came back with a 'no match'.......it had been described as a 'stream' as one of the features...so when I input that descriptor ("stream" instead of "swamp").....voila !.....my map appeared......searchable , downloadable, zoomable, movable....very dynamic. You might want to give it a try. Good luck..............Malinda Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: Deborah L. Mangen <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:04 AM Subject: [NCMECKLE] Creeks and Steams > I have had several responses to my question about a map listing the names of > streams and creeks. Most of them have been people looking for the same > information. For that reason, I am responding to the list as I feel it is a > topic of interest to many of you. > > I found a map in the front of the book, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina > Deeds and Abstracts, 1763-1779 by Brent H. Holcomb, C.A.L.S. and Elmer O. > Parker. It does give a lot of the names of the steams and creeks, but the > writing is very small and didn't enlarge well on a copier. It covers an > area much larger than today's boundaries, including Polk, Rutherford, > Cleveland, Lincoln, Gaston, Cabarrus, Union, and Mecklenburg Cos. in NC and > Spartanburg, Cherokee, Laurens, Union, Chester, Lancaster and York Cos. in > SC. > > Some of the names are spelled differently than the documents I have to > compare them with. Most notably is McAlpin's Creek. I have found 5 > different references to that creek all spelled differently. > > I will not scan this map to the net as I do not have permission, but it > would be a good one for someone to add to the Mecklenburg Co. GENWEB page. > And it might be a good project for someone living in Mecklenburg Co. to > check this with map an old map in the deeds office to see how it matches up. > > I hope this has helped. > > Merry Christmas. > > Debbie Mangen > Anthony, KS > [email protected] >