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1882 AUBURN NY ATLAS
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Links To Maps showing the locations of cemeteries in Cayuga County NY
1747 Map -The Five Indian Nations of Canada by Cadwallader Colden - Larger View (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1771 Map of The Country Of The VI Nations Small Image 9MB - Larger 85MB Image (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1779 Map Of Gen. Sullivan's March from Easton (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Map Showing The 1779 Route Of The Sullivan Expedition (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1787 Map Of Central NY (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht) 
Circa 1790s Military Tract Township Maps

Cayuga County map showing an outline of current Towns and an outline of circa 1790 Military Tract Townships
1792 -1st Sheet of DeWitt's State Map of New York(4.3MB) - Larger Image (17.4MB) - Alternate Image, Yellow(5.3MB) (Courtesy of  Bill Hecht & Bernie Corcoran)
1795 Cayuga Reservation Map  Medium, Supersize (From the NYS Archive-Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1795 Cayuga Reservation Map 2nd Version ; -800dpi 26 MB version (From the NYS Archive-Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1795 Cayuga Reservation Map (Cropped Area Near Union Springs) (From the NYS Archive-Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1795 Cayuga Reservation Map (Tracing of the version of this map in Cayuga Co. Clerk's Office)
1801 Cayuga Village Map-Top, Larger - Bottom, Larger (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1807 Traced copy of an early map of the ‘Residence Reservation’ within the East Cayuga Reservation (South of Union Springs NY) (Courtesy of  Bernie Corcoran)
1812 Map Of NY State (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1812 Cayuga County Portion Of NY State Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1821 Map Buffalo Area, Larger - 1821 Map Rochester Area, Larger - (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1821 Map Montezuma Area, Larger - 1821 Map Syracuse-Oneida Area, Larger -
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1821 Map Oneida Area, Larger - 1821 Map Albany Area, Larger -
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1821 Old Auburn NY Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Statistics of Cayuga County From The 1829 Burr Atlas - 1838 Stats
1826 Map Of Northern Cayuga County NY - Large Version (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1829 Map Of Cayuga County NY From The State Atlas By David Burr (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1829 Map of New York Area From D.F. Robinson and Co. Atlas (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1831 Map of Cayuga County NY (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Cropped Area Of 1831 Tourists Map of NY Published by William Williams - Whole Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1836 Map Of Cayuga County NY From The NY State Gazetteer by Thomas F. Gordon - Medium - Inverted
1837 Auburn NY Map- B&W Version- Center 3X Detail  (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1837 Map of Auburn NY (Small)   (Medium-400dpi) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1837 Map of Auburn (Whole Map) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1849 Map Of Auburn & Cayuga County-2nd Scan (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1850 Seneca County NY map engraved by JOHN E. GAVIT (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Map Of Auburn NY (Whole Map Stitched Together at 200dpi) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Auburn Map (N.E. Quadrant 150dpi  -  600dpi (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Auburn Map (N.W. Quadrant 150dpi  -  600dpi - Around Prison 150dpi - (600dpi)   (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Auburn Map (S.E. Quadrant 150dpi  -  600dpi (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Auburn Map (S.W. Quadrant 150dpi  -  600dpi (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Map of NY From 1851 Book - (Larger Image) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1851 Morgan Map Of NY State-Larger View Alternate B&W Version(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1852 -(Circa) NY Map With Roads, Canal & RR (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1853 Cayuga County Wall Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1856 Seneca Falls NY Map (In Seneca County)  Bigger  Medium  (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1857 Map From French's 1857 Auburn Directory (Courtesy of Joe O'Hearn & Bill Hecht)
Liberty St. and Auburn Prison areas of the above 1857 Auburn map
1857 Village Of Cayuga NY Map Small - Medium - Large (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1859 Cayuga/Seneca County NY Wall Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Seneca County Portion of the 1859 Wall Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
List of early surveys and maps for the former Township of Milton from Mix's Catalog of 1859 (PDF) (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
1860 Onondaga County Map Links (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1862 Canal Map Left Side - Larger View (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1862 Canal Map Right Side - Larger View (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1862 Erie Canal Map showing Montezuma, Kipp Island, Mays Point Areas (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Ontario or Wheat Group Map (Not Dated - May be circa 1860s) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Cayuga Seneca and Chemung Section Of Early Canal Map - Larger View
Old Map Of Triangle Block at Exchange St in Auburn NY Map #1 -(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Old Map Of Triangle Block at Exchange St in Auburn NY Map #2 -(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Old Map Of Triangle Block at Exchange St in Auburn NY Map #3 -(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Old Map Of Triangle Block at Exchange St in Auburn NY Map #4 -(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Old Map Of Triangle Block at Exchange St in Auburn NY Map #5 -(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Tompkins County 1866 Maps (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1870-71 Map showing stitched images of Auburn NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1871 Map showing a cropped portion of Auburn NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1871 Map of Central New York (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1872 (Circa) Map showing a section of the former P & R Railroad at Cayuga Lake shore near King Ferry NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1874 Onondaga County NY Atlas Thumbnails- Large Image Links
1875 Atlas Of Cayuga County NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1875 Color County Map - Displaying Towns & Lots
1875 Cayuga Co. Map Image Showing Military Tract Townships (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
1878 Cayuga Lake Depth Map By Cornell University Engineer Dept. (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1879 County Map from Storke's History Book For O'Hearn's Histories
1879 Map From Storke's County History Book Scanned by Bill Hecht
1880 Canal Map Left Side (Larger View)
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1880 Canal Map Right Side (Larger View)
1880 Western Canal Map Left Side
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1880 Western Canal Map Right Side (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1882 Auburn NY Atlas
(Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
1882 Section Map Showing The Summer Excursion Routes Of The Philadelphia & Reading RR
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1885 Moravia NY Panoramic Map  - (Large 79MB Version)
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1885 Moravia NY Panoramic Map Re-Scan - Red_Numbers, Small, Large 425MB (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1885 Weedsport NY Panoramic Map
(Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
1887 Moravia NY Map Sanborn Fire Ins. Map (Larger) Pg.2 (Pg.2 Larger)
1887 Union Springs NY Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Image1, Image 2, Image 3
Circa 1890s Cayuga Lake Map-Steamboat Flyer
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #6  - Auburn Wollen Mill and Owasco Outlet
(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #7  - South St, Logan, Lincoln and Grover St. (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #8  - D.M. Osborne (Current Wegman's)
 (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #11  - North, Water and State streets and Owasco Outlet
 (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #12 - Water, North, South, and Genesee St
. (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #14 - Birdsall Plant, Armory, McMaster and Owasco Outlet
(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #18 - Dunn and McCarthy and Owasco Outlet
 (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #22 - Auburn Wollen Mill, and Wadsworth Street
(Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map #23 - Nye-Wait
 (Larger View #1 #2) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1892 Sanborne Map Of Auburn NY - Map Area With Auburn Prison (Larger View)
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1893 Sanborne Fire Insurance Maps of Union Springs NY Image 1, Image 2, Image 3
1894 Map Showing Auburn Woolen Co. Property In Auburn - Larger View
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1899 Morgan Map Of NY State - Larger View
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Early Auburn NY Map With Historical References To
Settlement - Alternate Image (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
HistoryForge combines historic maps and photos with census records of the people who lived in Auburn, NY, creating a unique way to visualize the history of this community in the early 1900s. See https://auburn.historyforge.net/
1900 County Map - Foster Ross & Baucus

1902 Map Of E.D. Clapp Mfg. Co. In Auburn NY  (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1902 Map Showing Auburn NY Trolley Routes (Courtesy of Deborah Martin-Plugh)
1903 Owasco Lake Chart Small (Larger Image)
1904 New Century Atlas Of Cayuga County NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1904 Auburn NY Sanborn Insurance Maps (Some maps may be updated to the 1920s) (Courtesy of Don Laxton Est. and Bill Hecht)
1905 Geological Map Of Union Springs & Vicinity (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1906 Union Springs NY Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1908 Watershed Map Of Central NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1908 Watershed Map Of Eastern NY (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1909 USGS Map Chart Of Cayuga Lake (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1909-1910 Auburn NY Map - Large Version (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1911 Cayuga County Map - Large Version (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1912 Map showing contours / topography for Owasco Lake area - Larger View (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1913 Map of LVRR Routes (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
(Some 1914 Maps for NY Sate Areas can be found on Janie Edwards website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shastaca/maps/NY/NYmapsindex.html )
1915 Cayuga County NY Road Map
1916 Auburn NY Engineering Dept. Street Report-PDF File (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Early Map of The Seneca River near the Cayuga-Seneca Canal (From the NYS Archive-Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Early Map of the Cayuga Canal at Aurelius (From the NYS Archive-Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1918 Rochester & Syracuse Electric Railroad Detail Map (Redrawn in 1960) - 1916 RR Freight Service Timetable
1922 Cayuga County NY Soil Map (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1926 Cayuga County NY Rural Directory Map (Larger View)-Northern Cayuga County (Larger View) Name List (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1931 NY Road Map (Small Image)- Medium Size Image- Large Image (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1936 SOCONY Road Map Of The Finger Lakes (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1936-37 Cayuga Co. Rural Directory & Map Images (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Howland Island 1938, 1871, 1954 (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1947 Four Settlements Made A City Map Of Auburn NY - (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Circa 1947- Auburn NY Air Photo (Larger View) &
Circa 1947 Auburn NY Map (Medium View) (Larger View)
(Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Circa 1955 Map - Auburn Area - Cover Page (Auburn Area Map - Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Circa 1955 Map - Cayuga to Skaneateles Section - Larger View (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Circa 1955 Map - Skaneateles Area - (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Circa Late 1950s Auburn NY Map With Business Ads 96dpi- Larger 400dpi (17.4MB) (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Early Railroad Map Of Western New York (Larger View) (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Map Of Land s Of The Cayugas (Medium Size Image) (Large Image)
Cayuga County Postal Route Map Links- Legend; Port Byron & Montezuma Area; Cayuga, Levanna, Union Springs Area; Aurora- Poplar Ridge & King Ferry Area; Venice Center, Moravia, Genoa Area; Weedsport Sennett Area; Owasco, Fleming, Ensenore Area; Cato, Meridian Area; New Hope Area; Montville, Sempronius Area; Fair Haven, Sterling Area; Victory, Ira Area (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
1974 NOAA Depth And Navigation Chart Map Of Cayuga Lake (Courtesy of Bill Hecht)
Deed Research & Deed Description Plots For Original Brutus Township Lot #3 (Now Conquest NY) (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Deed Research with Deed Plots related to Worden Babcock & Babcock Family Cemetery in Scipio NY (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Deed Research With Deed Plots Related To Joseph Gunsaulus - Original Sempronius Township Lots 16 & 17- Now Niles NY (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
Deed Research and Plots Related To Peter or George Ransier- Original Brutus Township Lot 59- Later Mentz & Montezuma NY (Courtesy of Bernie Corcoran)
The HistoryForge Website includes links to some Geo-Rectified Maps of Cayuga County NY and can be viewed at: https://auburn.historyforge.net/forge

Historic U.S.G.S. maps of NY can be found on the 'University of New Hampshire Library' website at:
http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm
The following map image links below are Cayuga County NY portions of maps published online by William Hecht
with permission from
The David Rumsey Collection
Morse 1794 Map
Reid 1796 Map
1804 DeWitt Map
Cayuga County NY Portion Of Eddy 1818 Map
Cayuga County NY Portion Of Lucas 1823 Map
Cayuga County NY Portion Of Tanner 1823 Map
Cayuga County Portion- Vance 1825 Map  Section 1,  Section 2,  Section 3,  Section 4,  
1835 Burr Map
1838 Bradford Map
Cayuga County NY Portion of the 1845 Morse Map
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Cayuga County NY (Library Of Congress Link)
Thanks to Dan Touse, Kathleen Decker, William Hecht , Joseph O'Hearn and Bernie Corcoran for scanning and sharing map images found on websites linked from this page.
The following links  below are a small example of the many Early Maps, Air Photos & Other Items Published On-Line By William Hecht  For a complete listing visit:  W. Hecht's Links To Early Central NY Maps & Images
Early Map showing Owasco Lake Outlet thru the west side of Auburn
Early map showing Auburn area military tract lots
NEAT old map of Auburn area (Aurelius Lot 55) with important historical info
N end Owasco Lake
Burtis Point?
Dunning Av subdivision
Springside and vicinity
Auburn Theater
Owasco "River-1" - Owasco "River-2" - Owasco "River-3" - Owasco "River-4" - Owasco "River-5" - Owasco "River-6"
Auburn-1,  Auburn-2,  
WOODLAND BEACH UNION SPRINGS
Cayuga Lakeshore more 50 foot lots
Allens Point map1,  Allens Point map2,
Union Spings maps of interest1, Union Springs maps of interest2, Union Spings maps of interest3, Union Spings maps of interest4, Union Spings maps of interest5, Union Spings maps of interest6, Union Spings maps of interest7,
Basin Street area
The Willows
Bertram Hotel site
North Mill Pond
Lakeshore and quarry dock
Village of Cayuga maps
Aurora
Cayuga Lock Postcard
Shows Yawger Brook and Cayuga Junction, old quarries, Richardson Cemetery
Powers Corners, Fred Pethybridge, Yawgers Woods, Cat's Elbow
Union Springs, Powers Corners, Center Street Quarry
Detail of Union Springs
Detail of Aurora
Detail of the Village of Cayuga
Union Springs
Union Springs dock showing Frontenac and McDonalds Point
Ad from Everetts Store in Union Springs, New York.
Austin Brothers blacksmith shop located behind Methodist Church in Union Springs
Courtney home in Union Springs
Paines Creek
Cayuga Junction
Yawgers Creek
Emerson Park
Detail of Emerson Park
Levanna
Great Gulley & Farleys
Hibiscus
Longpoint & Paines Creek
Longpoint; south of Aurora
North Aurora
Wells College
1927 image of Cayuga from frozen lake
1927 view of Cayuga, NY
Infa Red Photo of Cayuga & North Cayuga Lake
Color infa red photos of area east of village of Cayuga
Color infa red photos of Cayuga lake from Aurora to Great Gully
Color infa red photos of Union Springs area from Cayuga Junction south to Farleys Point
Color infa red photos of north east Union Springs area
Union Springs AirPhoto
1938 Airphoto of Paynes Creek
Frontenac Island Drawing
1838 Map Legend - 1838 Stats - Stats Chart
Text contained on a 1838 Map of Cayuga County
1838 map of Aurelius
1838 Map of Canal Towns
1838 Map of Genoa
1838 Map of Town of Ira
1838 map of Ledyard
1838 map of Moravia and Lock
1838 Niles Map
1838 Scipio Map
1838 Springport map
1838 Map of Town of Stirling
1838 Map of Northern Cayuga County towns of Stirling, Vitory, and Ira
1838 Map of Venice
1838 Map of Town of Victory
Geological Map Of Union Springs
Print of Cayuga Lake
Cayuga Bridge

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