This mapping information came to me from another list and I thought it would be useful for many on this list. The color coding for the maps at the http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/ site is really slick. I used it today to chart where certain family lines lived in WV. Enjoy, --Dick Ross This site allows you to make a state map with selected counties highlighted in six different groups, each with a separate color. http://monarch.tamu.edu/~maps2/ An old favorite is the Hamrick site which shows the distribution of surnames by state and certain decades. http://www.hamrick.com/names/index.html John Hopkins site offers a useful variety of maps http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/ Site has: Shaded relief map // County map // Black and white map Satellite image // 1895 map (Big: 1.82 Mb) // PostScript map USGNIS http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html topozone Locations of features such as airports, beaches, cape, canal. cemetery, river, populated place -- by state and county http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form Peabody Museum at Yale appears to have same database. http://george.peabody.yale.edu/gnis/