Carbon County Landowner Resources

Carbon County

Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy researchers to pinpoint where our ancestors lived. The state of Pennsylvania began platting the exact metes-and-bounds tracts of the earliest landowners, township-by-township, starting in 1907, but the Land Office only completed about 1/3 of the state before the project ended. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania did not plat the tracts of the earliest landowners of Carbon County. However, the 1875 County Atlas of Carbon, Pennsylvania From actual surveys by and under the direction of F. W. Beers has been placed online at rootsweb.

In addition to the atlas mentioned above, a landowner map was drafted in 1860, and we are posting completely free, downloadable images of that cadastral map, Map of the Counties of Monroe and Carbon, Pennsylvania From surveys under the direction of H. F. Walling. (New York, 1860). This map, found in the Library of Congress, is in the public domain but the images we have taken of the atlas posted below belong to us and are not to be used for commercial use. For those wishing to use them for personal use (including illustrating a family history you are working on), we give permission to use them, but we would appreciate attribution to Ancestor Tracks. It takes much time and effort to locate, process, and post these and the many other county images we have posted, so we expect and appreciate this courtesy. We hope that you will find this atlas a useful tool for when coupled with the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 census and published county histories. Click on the township of your choice and once the image has downloaded completely, click on it again to enlarge and clarify it. All images may be saved to your computer by right-clicking and selecting "Save Image As..."



Township Maps

 

Banks Township
East Penn Township
Franklin Township
Kidder Township
Lausanne Township (now Lausanne, Lehigh and Weatherly)
Lower Towamensing Township
Mahoning Township
Mauch Chunk Township (now Jim Thorpe, Nesquehoning, and Summit Hill)
Packer Township
Penn Forest Township
Towamensing Township
Boroughs, Towns and Villages Ashton
Beaver Meadow
Lehighton
Mauch Chunk
Nesquehoning
Perryville
Rockport
Summit Hill
Weatherly

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