Family Maps of Dane County, Wisconsin, Deluxe Edition

Book excerpt: 498 pages with 110 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 Dane County, Wisconsin, 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) . . . 8212 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 65 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 1830s616 1840s3745 1850s3828 1860s11 1870s5 1880s1 1890s2 1910s4 What Cities and Towns are in Dane County, Wisconsin (and in this book)? Albion, Aldens Corners, Ashton, Ashton Corners, Bakers Corners, Basco, Belleville, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Bowens Addition (subdivision), Burgess Corners, Burke, Buss's Corners, Cambridge, Catfish (historical), City View Heights, College Hills (subdivision), Cottage Grove, Cross Plains, Daleyville, Dane, Darwin (historical), De Forest, Deansville, Deerfield, Door Creek, Drovers Woods, Dunkirk, East Bristol, Edgerton Beach Park, Elmside, Elvers, Ethelwyn Park (subdivision), Fitchburg, Five Points, Forward, Foxmoor Hills, Greenbush Addition, Hanerville, Hickory Hills, Highwood, Hillside, Hilton Estates, Hoepkers Corners, Hoffman Corners, Hope, Indian Heights, Kegonsa, Kingsley Corners, Klevenville, Lake Waubesa, Lake Windsor, Lakeview, Little Norway, London, Lutheran Hill, Madison, Maple Bluff, Marshall, Martinsville, Marxville, Mazomanie, McFarland, Mendota (subdivision), Mendota Beach, Middleton, Middleton Junction, Monona, Montrose, Morrisonville, Mount Horeb, Mount Vernon, Nora, North Bristol, Norway Grove, Oak Hall, Oak Knoll, Oakland Heights, Old Deerfi eld, Oregon, Paoli, Pebble Valley, Petty Acres, Pheasant Branch, Pierceville, Pilgrim Village (subdivision), Pine Bluff, Pleasant Hill (subdivision), Prairie View Heights, Preglers Addition (subdivision), Primrose, Raintree, Riley, Riverwood Estates, Rockdale, Rolling Acres, Roxbury, Rutland, Schey Acres, Seminary Springs, Sherwood Forest Heights, Sherwood Glen, Shorewood Hills, South Madison, Springfi eld Corners, Stone, Stoughton, Sun Prairie, Sunburst, Syene (historical), Taylors Corners, Token Creek, Tonyawatha (subdivision), Utica, Vermont, Verona, Vilas, Warrens Addition (subdivision), Waunakee, West Middleton, Windsor, Wingra Park (subdivision), Wynbrooke, York Center