Family Maps of Monroe County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition: With Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More

Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Monroe County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries.

Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds.

The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 484 pages with 137 total maps

What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .
9066 Parcels of Land
(with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)
73 Cemeteries plus . . .
Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.

What YEARS are these maps for?
Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued:
Decade Parcel-count
1820s 677
1830s 2416
1840s 395
1850s 2082
1860s 953
1870s 78
1880s 843
1890s 1123
1900s 295
1910s 86
1920s 22
1930s 15
1940s 7
1950s 30
1960s 20
1970s 4
1980s 4
1990s 2

What Cities and Towns are in Monroe County, Alabama (and in this book)?
Axle, Beatrice, Buena Vista, Chestnut, Chrysler, Claiborne, Drewry, Eliska, Excel, Finchburg, Fountain, Franklin, Frisco City, Goodway, Halls Crossroads, Hixon, Homewood, Hybart, Jeddo, Kalem, Keith, Manistee, Megargel, Mexboro, Mexia, Mexia Crossing, Midway, Mineola, Monroeton, Monroeville, Mount Pleasant, Nadawah, Natchez, Old Salem, Old Texas, Ollie, Packards Bend, Palmers Crossroads, Perdue Hill, Peterman, Pine Orchard, Pineville, Puryearville (historical), Renson, Riley, River Ridge, Scotland, Scratch Ankle, Tinela, Tunnel Springs, Turkestan (historical), Turnbull, Uriah, Valley Estates, Vredenburgh, Wainwright, West Monroeville