Family Maps of Cherokee County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition,Used

Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy taskuntil now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Cherokee 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 citycenters 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 placename, 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 hardtofind cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patentmaps 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. 322 pages with 80 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 4846 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patentdates labeled in the relevant map) 97 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Smalltowns (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 Parcelcount 1840s 1487 1850s 1411 1860s 149 1870s 24 1880s 637 1890s 835 1900s 181 1910s 92 1920s 28 What Cities and Towns are in Cherokee County, Alabama (and in this book)? Adams Crossroads, Alexis, Alpine Shores, Anderson (subdivision), Antioch, Antioch Estates, Aubrey Isle, Ball Flat, Bay Springs, Bay View Estates (subdivision), Berry Springs, Big Nose Creek Subdivision (subdivision), Billy Goat Hill, Blanche, Blue Pond, Bluffton, Bomar, Bristow, Brooks Estates (subdivision), Broomtown, Burgess, Burkhalter Subdivision, Cedar Bluff, Centre, Chesterfield, Congo, Coosa River Subdivision (subdivision), Cornwall (subdivision), Cornwall Furnace, Dewey, Dixon Shop, Ellisville, Elrath, Estes Crossroads, Ewing, Exie, Farill, Ferguson, Five Points, Forney, Frog Mountain, Fullerton, Gaylesville, Gnatville, Grassland, Griffin (subdivision), Grover, Hall Valley, Hopewell, Howells Crossroads, Hurley, Jamestown, Key, Kirks Grove, Lawrence, Leesburg, Leonard, Little River, Lookout Valley Acres (subdivision), Mackey, Maple Grove, McCord Crossroads, McElrath Subdivision (subdivision), McFrey Crossroads, McGhee, McWorther Subdivision (subdivision), Meadows Estates (subdivision), Moshat, Mountain Acres, Mountain Lake Estates (subdivision), New Moon, Newberry Cove, Newberry Crossroads, Noah, Northwood Estates (subdivision), Oceola, Old Coloma, Pathkiller Cove, Pine Grove, Piney, Plano, Pleasant Gap, Pope, Rhinehart, Richardson, Ringgold, Roberts Subdivision, Rock Run, Round Mountain, Sand Rock, Sandy Springs, Sanford Springs, Sewell Subdivision (subdivision), Shangrila, Sidhart (historical), Slackland, Spring Garden, Sterling (historical), Summer Estates (subdivision), Taft, Tecumseh, Tecumseh Furnace, Tennala, Tucker Crossroads, Waterhouse, Waterloo Springs, Watson, Weiss Dam, Whorton, Yellow Creek View Subdivision (subdivision)