McKean County Landowner Resources

McKean County


Our goal at Ancestor Tracks is to publish maps and land ownership information allowing researchers to pinpoint the locations where our ancestors lived. Typically, the Warrantee Maps produced by the Land Office of Pennsylvania have been very helpful for genealogists trying to track down the earliest settlers of the county, but vast areas of McKean County were purchased by land speculators after the Treaty of 1784 (also known as the "Last Purchase--see the explanation on our Elk County page). Thus, these maps are less useful to genealogists than the Warrantee Maps produced for areas outside the Last Purchase. Scroll down this page below the images of the 1856 and 1871 landowner maps for links to these McKean County Township Warrantee Maps which have been posted online by the Pennsylvania Archives.

We are posting free, downloadable images from two landowner maps of McKean County, one from 1856 and the other from 1871. We hope these maps will be helpful when coupled with the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses and published county histories such as the 1890 History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron, and Potter. These maps, on file in the Library of Congress, are in the public domain but the images we have taken 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.


Images of Map of M'Kean County, Pennsylvania 1856. Click on the township of your choice. Once the images are loaded, they will appear to be illegible but they can then be enlarged and clarified by clicking on them. They may also be saved to your computer by right-clicking and selecting "Save Image As..."

McKean County, 1856

Township

 

Bradford Township
Ceres Township
Corydon Township
Eldred Township
Foster Township (part of Bradford Township until 1880)
Hamilton Township
Hamlin Township
Keating Township
Lafayette Township
Liberty Township
Norwich Township
Otto Township
Sergeant Township
Wetmore (created in 1856 from Seargeant and Hamlin Townships)


The 1871 map in the Library of Congress is so fragile and faded that it was necessary to make copies from a negative image of the map so that the names would show up legibly. We hope that these images will enable McKean County researchers to locate their ancestors even though the maps are not as pretty as the others we have posted.

McKean County, 1871

Township

 

Annin Township
Bradford Township (coming soon)
Ceres Township
Corydon Township
Eldred Township
Foster Township (part of Bradford Township until 1880)
Hamilton Township
Hamlin Township
Keating Township
Lafayette Township
Liberty Township
Norwich Township
Otto Township
Sergeant Township
Wetmore

Boroughs, Towns and Villages Alton
Bradford
Ceres
DeGolier
Duke Center
Kane
Kendall Creek
Port Allegheny
Smethport
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Warrantee Abbreviations


The following Warrantee Township Maps have been posted by the Pennsylvania Archives under the direction of Jonathan Stayer.

McKean County Township Warrantee Maps

Township

Annin
Bradford
Ceres
Corydon
Eldred
Foster
Hamilton
Hamlin
Keating
Lafayette
Liberty
Norwich
Otto
Sergeant
Wetmore

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