This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReB.2ACI/114.2 Message Board Post: I was able to find an old email I sent to a listserv years ago regarding enumeration district maps with some details in it. I hope this helps you and others.... =========== To: afrigeneas@msstate.edu Subject: Enumeration District maps From: "Damita D. Green" Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Damita D. Green" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever wondered what happened to the county maps used for the Census'? While at the College Park, MD branch of the National Archives I ran across the following FREE publication: "The National Archives of the United States - Preliminary Inventories - Number 103 - Cartographic Records of the Bureau of the Census"; compiled by James Berton Rhoads and Charlotte M. Ashby; National Archives Publication No. 58-6; published by The National Archives - National Archives and Records Service - General Services Administration, Washington: 1958, reprinted 1981. This booklet has an index of the Enumeration District ("Office Copy") Maps, 1880-1940 that are available for each state and county. It's wonderful if you have no idea if these maps are available for your research. The 1880-1890 maps are few and far between. These maps are on file at National Archives at College Park Cartographic Reference 8601 Adelphi Road College park, MD 20740-6001 (301)713-7040 - Cartographic Reference Room I was able to get copies of the 1900, 1930, & 1940 Enumeration District Maps for Clarendon County, SC. The 1900 ad 1930 maps are especially helpful to me because the township and enumeration district boundaries hadn't changed much during that time frame. The maps vary in size and detail. The 1930 Clarendon County maps has excellent detail, and is roughly 3x3 feet, whereas the 1900 map shows very little detail other than the major cities/towns and the townships, and is small in size (less than 7" wide). Now i know where those no longer existing townships are in relation to present day areas. They also have mail order service thru vendors. Contact the Archives for more information. Damita Drayton Green