Oxford County Historic Maps

Two cadastral maps of Oxford County—showing dwellings (with names of homeowners), businesses, churches, cemeteries, etc.—were published in the nineteenth century. The 1858 Gillette and Huntington wall map of the county (from a survey by H. F. Welling) is hard to find, but images of individual towns have been reproduced and published as The Old Maps of Oxford County, Maine (Fryeburg, Me., Saco Valley Printing, 1972). The Atlas of Oxford County, Maine by H.E. Halfpenny and John W. Caldwell (Philadelphia, Penn.: Caldwell & Halfpenny, 1880) is more generally available in libraries.

From the 1858 Gillette and Huntington Map:

• Peru
• Rumford — From Rumford MEGenWeb Project
• Stow — From Stow MEGenWeb Project
• Upton — From Upton MEGenWeb Project

Map of Grants and Purchases in Norway

Plan of Buckfield With Settling Lots

Plan of Fryeburg

Original Land Grants of Peru

North Waterford (ca. 1850s)


Maps from the 1911 Town Register for Bethel, Greenwood, Hanover, Woodstock, Gilead:

• Greenwood
• Locke Mills
• South Bethel
• West Bethel
• Woodstock

Maine Memory Network

• Map of towns laid out along the Androscoggin River, ca. 1760 — From the Maine Historical Society. Shows towns as far upriver as Rumford.
• Lakes of Franklin and Oxford counties — From the Maine Historical Society. From surveys made in the winter of 1876. Only the northern part of the county is shown.
• Map of Fryeburg Village, ME in 1878 — From the Maine Historical Society. As drawn and surveyed by Admiral R.E. Peary in 1878.

American Memory: Map Collections: 1500-2004

• Part of Oxford and Cumberland Counties, Me. — Drawn by S. Greenleaf circa 1771, and showing the earliest townships in Oxford County.
• A Plan of the late Province of Main as far as Kennebeck River — Published circa 1778, and showing Fryeburg and the early townships along the Androscoggin.
• A map of the New England states . . . — Published first in 1826, and revised in 1849. Shows town boundaries.
• Map of the Railroads of the State of Maine. . ., 1899
• Panoramic View of Dixfield, Maine, 1896

Maine State Archives: Maps 1674-1989 — A database of maps available at the Archives. Requires MS-Access.

Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York — Detailed topographical maps from the 1890s to the 1950s of every corner of Maine.

David Rumsey Map Collection — Includes dozens of maps of Maine taken from antique atlases. See the maps of Matthew Carey for early views of Oxford County, showing the old division line between York and Cumberland Counties, and the maps by David H. Burr, Joseph Meyer and others which show the extent of Oxford County before the creation of Franklin and Androscoggin Counties. Moses Greenleaf's 1829 map shows town lines and original proprietors.

Oxford County, Maine, 1895 — Detail from an 1895 map of Maine.

1910 Map of Maine — From the C. S. Hammond & Company Atlas.

1922 Map of Maine — From the New World Atlas and Gazetteer.

The Cartographic Creation of New England — From the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine. Includes some of the earliest maps of Maine.

Maine Census and County Formation Maps — Follow the development of Maine counties through the centuries.

View USGS Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online — Links to the free databases of the United States Geological Survey.

Maine Geographical Information System — Links to many free maps.

• Aerial Photography — Free online aerial photographs from MEGIS of every corner of Maine.