Map Map of Niagara County, New York

Title

• Map of Niagara County, New York

Names

• Gifford, Franklin.
• Geil, Samuel.
• Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898.

Created / Published

• Wilson, N.Y. : Franklin Gifford, publisher, 1852.

Headings

• -  Landowners--New York (State)--Niagara County--Maps
• -  Real property--New York (State)--Niagara County--Maps
• -  Niagara County (N.Y.)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps
• -  Niagara County (N.Y.)--Surveys--Maps
• -  Lockport (N.Y.)--Maps
• -  Lewiston (N.Y.)--Maps
• -  Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Maps
• -  Wilson (N.Y.)--Maps
• -  United States--New York (State)--Niagara County
• -  United States--New York (State)--Lockport
• -  United States--New York (State)--Lewiston
• -  United States--New York (State)--Niagara Falls
• -  United States--New York (State)--Wilson

Genre

• Cadastral maps

Notes

• -  County map showing towns (townships), numbered town subsections, irregular landholdings, rural buildings, and householders' names.
• -  Also indicates the vertical and horizontal numbering system of the township/range land subdivision system.
• -  Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings.
• -  "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by Robert P. Smith in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
• -  Hand colored to emphasize town boundaries, town territories, and Amerindian land reservations.
• -  Mounted in western/eastern segments (sheets).
• -  Originally printed on 4 sheets (now conjoined).
• -  LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth backing. missing small edge sections, sheets halved to enable folding.
• -  LC Land ownership maps, 522
• -  Includes "Description" (text), statistical tables, and 3 landscape illustrations
• -  Street-map insets: Plan of Lockport -- Plan of the village of Lewiston, Niagara Co., N. York / by Sam'l Geil -- Plan of the village of Niagara-Falls, Niagara Co., New York / surveyed & drawn by Sam'l Geil -- Plan of the village of Wilson / drawn by Franklin Gifford, surveyor [with index of names[.
• -  2 copies

Medium

• 1 map on 2 sheets : color, mounted on cloth backing ; 94 x 131 cm, sheets 101 x 73 cm, folded to 52 x 75 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• G3803.N5G46 1852 .G5
• G3803.N5G46 1852 .G5 Copy 2 Also printed on 2 folding sheets (each halved); also hand colored much the same as Copy 1; sheet margins trimmed before mounting.

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3803n.la00522

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2013593261

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2013593261

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