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''[[United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[New York]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[New York Maps|Maps]]''
''[[United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[New York]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[New_York_Maps|Maps]]''  


The New York State Library, New York State Archives, New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society, and most university and public libraries in major cities have extensive map collections. The Family History Library has few original maps but has many on microfilm and microfiche.  
The New York State Library, New York State Archives, [[New York Public Library]], New-York Historical Society, and most university and public libraries in major cities have extensive map collections. The [[Family History Library]] has few original maps but has many on microfilm and microfiche.  


Detailed patent maps may show where early settlers lived. An inventory of these is David Ellicott Evans Mix, ''Catalogue of Maps and Surveys in the Offices of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor and Comptroller and the New York State Library'' (Albany, New York: Charles van Benthuysen, 1859; Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=341313&disp=Catalogue+of+maps+and+surveys+in+the+off++ 947104 item 5]; or [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=341313&disp=Catalogue+of+maps+and+surveys+in+the+off++ 947853 item 2]). The New York State Archives also has a finding aid that lists the location of specific patent maps.  
Detailed patent maps may show where early settlers lived. An inventory of these is David Ellicott Evans Mix, ''Catalogue of Maps and Surveys in the Offices of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor and Comptroller and the New York State Library'' (Albany, New York: Charles van Benthuysen, 1859; Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=341313&disp=Catalogue+of+maps+and+surveys+in+the+off++ 947104 item 5]; or [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=341313&disp=Catalogue+of+maps+and+surveys+in+the+off++ 947853 item 2]). The New York State Archives also has a finding aid that lists the location of specific patent maps.  
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