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Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
The disputed land had generally been administered by Delaware, even electing a member of the Delaware legislature in the mid-19th century, [377] but federal maps had included the land as part of Pennsylvania at least as late as 1900. [378] The states had agreed on a resolution, and it was affirmed by an act of Congress on this date.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
Over the course of the 19th century, land surveying in America transformed from a prestigious, status-driven endeavor derived from the authority of a royal government and administration that had been inherited from the colonial era, to the more practical, and standardized modern field of public service as it is generally recognized today, which ...
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time ...
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Pages in category "19th-century maps and globes" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Early world maps – List of early depictions of the world; Forma Urbis Romae – Marble map of ancient Rome (c.205-208) Geographic information system – System to capture, manage, and present geographic data; Great Trigonometrical Survey – 19th-century survey to measure the Indian subcontinent (India)
Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee "Nation of" Indians Exhibiting Various Cessations Made by Them to the Colonies and the United States, C.C. Royce, 1884. The historic Cherokee settlements were Cherokee settlements established in Southeastern North America up to the removals of the early 19th century.