Cumberland County 1872 Atlas, Warrantee Maps

Cumberland County Warrantee Maps by Eschenmann and Barner
1872 Atlas (scroll down)

Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing genealogy researchers to place more precisely the locations 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 only platted one township within Cumberland County, East Pennsboro Township.

Researchers are indeed fortunate, however, that Hayes R. Eschenmann began to systematically research and map the tracts of the earliest landowners of the county, aligning their surveys with USGS topographic quadrangle maps. He published volumes for four quadrangles before his passing, and his project was taken up by his editor, Paul Barner, who completed the additional volumes.

21 volumes of First Families of Cumberland County have been published, each of which includes a 22" X 30" map showing the tracts, and they may be ordered for $18 each plus $5.00 each for shipping, with a discount if you buy more than 5 volumes. The index to the volumes is available on this site, as well as a key to the Quadrangle abbreviations. Cumberland County Historical Society (click on "Publications") as follows:

Volume I: Shippensburg Quadrangle, including lands in both Cumberland and Franklin Counties.
Volume 2: Newburg Quadrangle, which includes land in Cumberland, Perry, and Franklin Counties
Volume 3: Newville Quadrangle
Volume 4: Walnut Bottom Quadrangle, both for land only in Cumberland County
Volume 5: Plainfield, with lands in Cumberland County
Volume 6: Andersonburg (Doubling Gap) & Landisburg (McClure's Gap) showing lands in Cumberland County only
Volume 7: Dickinson Quadrangle with lands in Cumberland and Adams County
Volume 8: Caledonia Park
Volume 9: Scotland, Franklin County County
Volume 10: Chambersburg, Franklin County
Volume 11: Roxbury, Franklin County
Volume 12: Carlisle, Cumberland County
Volume 13: Waynesboro and Southern Washington Twp., Franklin County
Volume 14: Shermans Dale and Wertzville, Cumberland and Perry Counties
Volume 15 : Greencastle and Stateline, Franklin County
Volume 16: Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland, Adams, and York Counties
Volume 17: South Mountain (Iron Springs) and Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin County
Volume 18: Mechanicsburg and White Rocks (Dillsburg), Cumberland and York Counties
Volume 19: Williamson and Mason-Dixon, Franklin County
Volume 20: The West Shore (Harrisburg West, Lemoyne, Steelton)
Volume 21: Saint Thomas, Franklin County

Ancestor Tracks is proud to bring you free, downloadable images from Atlas of Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, From Actual Surveys by and under the Direction of F. W. Beers which was published in 1872. These maps, found in the Library of Congress, are 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 1860, 1870 and 1880 census and published county histories. Click on the township of your choice and once they have downloaded completely, click on them again to enlarge and clarify them. They may be saved to your computer by right-clicking and selecting "Save Image As..."


Cumberland County Atlas, 1872 Cumberland And Adams Counties, 1886 (click twice to enlarge)

Township Maps	Dickenson Township East Pennsborough Township Frankford Township Hampden Township Hopewell Township Lower Allen Township Middlesex Township Mifflin Township Monroe Township Newton Township North Middleton Township Penn Township Silver Spring Township Southampton Township and Shippensburg South Middleton Township Upper Allen Township West Pennsborough Township
Boroughs, Towns and Villages	Bloserville Boiling Springs Brush Town Camp Hill Carlisle Carlisle, East Ward (part) Carlisle, East Ward (part) Carlisle, West Ward Centreville Churchtown Cleversburg Craighead Station Cummins Greason Hickory Town Hockersville Hogestown Jacksonville Laurel Forge Leesburg Lisburn Middle Spring Milltown (Eberlys Mills) Mill Town (Penn Twp.) Mount Holly Mount Holly Springs Mount Rock New Cumberland New Kingston New Lancaster Newberg Newtown Newville Oakville Pine Grove Plainfield Shepherdstown Shippensburg Shirmanstown Springfield Springville Stoughstown West Fairview West Hill Wormleysburg

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Cumberland County Warrantee Maps by Eschenmann and Barner 1872 Atlas (scroll down)

Cumberland County Atlas, 1872

Cumberland County Warrantee Maps by Eschenmann and Barner
1872 Atlas (scroll down)