[or-roots] Township and Range Info

[Sharon Ryan]

Hi Les:

You may have been thinking of my website which has all the BLM maps for the
entire state of Oregon from 1850's to 70's.  These show the original land
information such a "Cabin", "Mine", "Deserted", just to name a few of the
notations by the surveyor at that time.

www.HeritageTrailpress.com

It's a subscription site, however nothing like the expense for Ancestry or
others.  Most of the information is pertinent to Oregon.  There are also
some of the Metzger maps which were newer years for a select few counties.

You can preview the site without joining and see actual examples of the BLM
maps.  The Oregon Death Index for years 1903 through 1930 is also on the
site and it is FREE.

If you want any other information about the maps contact me off this list.

Sharon
Sharon at HeritageTrailpress.com







-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:30 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: RE: [or-roots] Township and Range Info


Thanks Barbara;

Shows you how bad my memory is, I used that web site just a couple of weeks
ago in my work and completely forgot about it.

The dwon side of it is that some counties what is available at that link is
all you can get, Lincoln and Coos are two that i deal with that are that
way. The Coos Co surveyyors office just sold a copy of all their digitized
maps to some surveyour for $2000 so they don't seem much inclined to make
them available online for free like Douglas and Lane County do.

What you actually access at most of the counties on the link below are what
are called tax lot maps, which are maps that have "most' of the current
survey info for "most' parts of the county in terms of how they are tax
lotted, which may or may not have any relationship to original homesteads
and DLC's.

Again it depends on the county what is available, I know somewhere I was
able to access a lot of original plats for Oregon, which is the maps that
the original survey created in the period from about 1850 to 1870. Often
those are quite interesting reading as they will have area deemed unpassable
etc. and historic trails and such on them, as well as named ownerships.

Les C


-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
barbhg1221 at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:07 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Township and Range Info


This is a link to the home page of  The Oregon Map.  If you have the
Township and Range, you can get a current plat map of that.  I've used the
site rather successfully.
http://www.ormap.org/index.cfm?opt=maphelp
Barbara Herring
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Bev Reinhardt" <bevr at fmtc.com>

Some time ago there had been a discussion, if I remember right, on how to
find a piece of land based on the Township, Range, etc.  I believe at the
time it was how to find land based on information on ODLC's.  It seems that
there was a website that you could put the information in and it would give
the exact location. Town, etc.  Does any one remember this discussion and/or
know the website to go to?  I've googled til I've run out of ideas (and
patience) and would love to have other ideas.

Bev Reinhardt
Fruitland, ID


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