Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
| Title: | Map of Mississippi constructed from the surveys in the General Land Office and other documents / by John Melish. |
| Author: | Melish, John, 1771-1822. |
| Scale: | 1 inch to 15 miles |
| Situation Date: | 1819 |
| Publication Date: | 1819 |
| Type: | Original |
| Features: | Drainage, swamps, Public Land Survey of southern part of state (31 to 32.5 degrees latitude), roads and traces, counties, towns, settlements, court houses, forts, some names of residents. Same features in parts of Alabama and Louisiana |
| Comments: | General Note: "Entered according to Act of Congress the 10th of September 1819." "Basis meridian" Link Note: Library of Congress link is an improved 1820 version. Mississippi Archives link is 1819 version. |
| Coverage: | Mississippi and parts of Alabama and Louisiana |
| Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | [Philadelphia] : J. Melish, 1819. |
| Size (inches): | 24.4 x 16.1 |
| Color: | Y |
| Link: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3980.ct000650 http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bibl ionumber=000008081 |