If you are looking for a specific person or family in Patrick County, there are ways to find them without the kind of map that is available for other counties. Tax records and deeds contain information about where people lived. My "Places Named in Deed Book I 1791-1801" might be helpful. It lists places named in early Patrick County deeds with the surnames of people named in deeds for each place. _http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/patrick/deeds/deedbk01-places.txt_ (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/patrick/deeds/deedbk01-places.txt) Charles Leon Harris