{"id":7180,"date":"2018-07-22T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2018-07-22T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:16:29","slug":"tennessee-maps-for-genealogists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/tennessee-maps-for-genealogists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Maps for Genealogists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the ancestors on my father’s side (Smith, Hurt, Lannom, Jordan) were from Tennessee so it’s helpful to be able to consult vintage maps to determine which counties and towns were in existence at a particular time. Here are some of the ones I’ve found for Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\"1817<\/a>
1817 Map of TN, from Samuel Lewis Atlas, 1817. Source: https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2003627040\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1818<\/a>
1818 Map of Tennessee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1825<\/a>
1825 Tennessee Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1826<\/a>
1826 Map of Tennessee, Lucas, Fielding, Jr., (1781-1854). Source: https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2003627038\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1827<\/a>
1827 Finley Map of Tennessee, A New General Atlas, wiki commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1832<\/a>
1832 Map of Tennessee, Columbia, TN, Matthew Rhea. Source: https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2011588000\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"1863,<\/a>
1863, Lloyd’s official map of the State of Tennessee, New York, JT Lloyd. Source: https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/99448806\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of the ancestors on my father’s side (Smith, Hurt, Lannom, Jordan) were from Tennessee so it’s helpful to be able to consult vintage maps to determine which counties and towns were in existence at a particular time. Here are some of the ones I’ve found for Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee","tag-maps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-1RO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9496,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/useful-genealogy-links\/","url_meta":{"origin":7180,"position":0},"title":"Useful Genealogy Links","author":"Karen","date":"September 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Primary Sources Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. 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