| Family Maps of Dent County, Missouri Contributor(s): Boyd J. D., Gregory a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1420314343 ISBN-13: 9781420314342 Publisher: Arphax Publishing Co. OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.61 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 304 pages with 68 total maps 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 Dent County, Missouri, 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. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6584 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 79 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: DecadeParcel-count 1830s48 1840s203 1850s4572 1860s1178 1870s133 1880s101 1890s138 1900s128 1910s78 1920s5 What Cities and Towns are in Dent County, Missouri (and in this book)? Anutt, Ark, Bangert, Boscobel (historical), Boss, Condray, Cooksey, Coulstone, Custer, Darien, Deep Ford, Dent Ford, Doss, Falk Mill (historical), Fawn, Gila, Gladden, Halcyon, Hedrick, Hobson, Howes, Howes Mill, Jack, Jadwin, Joy, Junction Lookout (historical), Lake Spring, Lecoma, Lenox, Max, Montauk, Mounce, North Lenox, Ranger, Rhyse, Salem, Short Bend, Sligo, Smoky Hollow, Stone Hill, Turtle, West Bunker |