Nebraska Maps

This entry was originally written by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FUGA, FASG and Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.

This article is part of the Nebraska Family History Research series.

History of Nebraska

Nebraska Vital Records

Census Records for Nebraska

Background Sources for Nebraska

Nebraska Maps

Nebraska Land Records

Nebraska Probate Records

Nebraska Court Records

Nebraska Tax Records

Nebraska Cemetery Records

Nebraska Church Records

Nebraska Military Records

Nebraska Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscript Collections

Nebraska Archives, Libraries, and Societies

Nebraska Naturalization

Ethnic Groups of Nebraska

Nebraska County Resources

Map of Nebraska

The Nebraska State Historical Society holds the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Nebraska. The society has an excellent collection of early county atlases covering most of the state, including some 500 county atlases or plat books from 1885 to about 1947. For a listing, see Nebraska County Atlases/Platbooks at www.nebraskahistory.org/databases/atlas.shtml. See also:

• Everts and Kirk. The 1885 Official State Atlas of Nebraska. Reprinted in 1976 with 10,000-name index by Margie Sobotka. Fremont, Nebr.: Eastern Nebraska Genealogical Society, 1976.