Family Maps of Greene County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition

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 Greene 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. 384 pages with 107 total maps

What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .
5972 Parcels of Land
(with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)
126 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 1309
1830s 4933
1840s 88
1850s 128
1860s 24
1880s 3
1890s 21
1900s 21
1910s 19
1920s 266
1930s 1
1950s 16
1960s 5
1970s 4
1990s 1

What Cities and Towns are in Greene County, Alabama (and in this book)?
Allison, Birdeye, Boligee, Braggville, Clinton, Crawford Fork, Eutaw, Five Points, Forkland, Fowler, Gosa, Guinea, Hycutt, Jackson Quarters, Jena, Knoxville, Lewiston, Lizzieville, Mantua, McClure, Merriwether, Miller, Morrows Grove, Mount Hebron, New Mount Hebron, New West Greene, Pleasant Ridge, Ridge, Rosemont, Snoddy, Thornhill, Tishabee, Union, Walden Quarters, West Greene