266 pages with 70 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Jasper County, Missouri, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 3616 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 54 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1840s533 1850s2635 1860s320 1870s67 1880s34 1890s15 1900s2 1910s9 1930s1 What Cities and Towns are in Jasper County, Missouri (and in this book)? Airport Drive, Alba, Asbury, Atlas, Avilla, Belle Center, Belleville, Blendville (historical), Bowers Mill, Brooklyn Heights, Carl Junction, Carterville, Carthage, Carytown, Central City, Chitwood, Cossville, Dudenville, Duenweg, Duquesne, East Joplin, Fidelity, Forest Mills, Galesburg, Gulfton, Iron Gates, Jasper, Joplin, Kendricktown, Klondike, Knights, La Russell, Lakeside, Lone Elm, Maple Grove, Maxville, Medoc, Morgan Heights, Motley, Neck City, Oakland Park, Oronogo, Parshley, Pleasant Valley, Preston, Prosperity, Purcell, Reeds, Rex City, Sarcoxie, Scotland, Smithfield, Stringtown, Thoms, Tuckahoe, Tuckers Corner, Waco, Webb City, West Joplin

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