Historical Map Collections for Payne County

Sanborn maps are great for learning about the area your ancestors lived.
View the downloadable Payne County Sanborn maps

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The Gateway to Oklahoma History has a collection of Clarkson Fire Insurance Maps.

View the Payne County Collection

The US Geological Survey has historical topographical maps to download, as well as online software for overlaying maps.

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The General Land Office has a searchable database that contains not only land patents, but images of survey plats and field notes.

On their site DigitalPrairie you can search through their digital collection for maps and atlases. Here's a copy of an atlas of Payne County that I found while searching:

The Oklahoma Digital Maps Collection contains over 9,200 images from the period 1803-1925.Here are the results from a search I did:

Payne County Maps