Author: Illinois State Library

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781396133619

Excerpt from A Checklist of Illinois State Library's Complete Holding of Illinois County Land Ownership Maps and Atlases: December 1992 As is well known, the county plat book, and the sheet map before it, was created by private concerns and sold by subscription. Unlike the original government surveys or plats (which the Illinois State Library owns on circulating microfilm) before them, the plat maps or books show who owned the land parcels. The earliest example of the county land ownership map that the State Library owns is 1859, one for Hancock and one for Stephenson County. Because these maps and atlases were sold by subscription as commercial ventures, some Illinois counties were mapped several times over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creating quite a historical run. Those counties less populated may have had no map or atlas published for tjmmn For those counties, the only county level mapping available at the Illinois State Library, after the original government plat, may be the county page in the 1871 and 1876 state atlases. This information, of course, will be less detailed than the township pages in the county atlas and do not show detailed land ownership. The State Library also owns the circa 1923-1925 Hixson state atlas which has township mapping showing land owners, except for Johnson County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.