Property Research
- Property Research GuideThe steps and resources typically used for researching property.
Warrantee|Land Ownership Maps
Property and land use maps and atlases chronicle residential, business, and industrial development.
- Ancestry Library Edition This link opens in a new windowIncludes land ownership maps for many locations and years. Landowner' names are indexed and searchable.
- Warrantee Township Maps [Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission]A summary and geographical index for the warrants, surveys and patents held by the State Archives
- Connected Draft and other Warrantee-Related Maps [Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission]Maps focus on a limited area of warrant tracts within a particular locality, unlike the warrantee township maps, which depict all tracts present within a particular township
- Land Records [Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission]Various types of land ownership records and maps, including original surveys
- Land Ownership Maps [Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library]This collection includes Pennsylvania maps
- G. M. Hopkins Company Maps, 1872-194047 volumes (1,800+ plates) published by the G.M. Hopkins Company for Pittsburgh
- Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1914Depicts the original land grants that settlers of present-day Allegheny County received from the Commonwealth after William Penn and his descendants vested the land to the legislature
- The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware - Patents or deeds in Northampton County and a portion of Lehigh County, PA (book)By Andrew Dwight Chidsey, published in 1937
- Free Library of Philadelphia Hexamer MapsErnest Hexamer published very large-scale property atlases of [Philadelphia] between the 1880s and 1920, and his successor, D.A. Sanborn, continued the format through today
- Hexamer General Surveys [Philadelphia Architects and Buildings]Prepared by Ernest Hexamer between 1866 and 1895 and consists of 2855 numbered plates depicting various industrial and commercial properties
- Real estate atlas, States of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (book)Also known as Nirenstein's preferred real estate, national location maps, downtown retail business districts, Pennsylvania & Virginia edition. such as the precentage of locations, history of the city, principal industries, chain stores [and] aerial views
Other maps that show property/building level details
- Sanborn and Other Fire Insurance MapsCreated as a product to help insurance companies assess the potential risks involved in underwriting policies - have developed into a tool with myriad uses for multiple industries
- PA Farmline MapsThe term farmline map generally refers to any historic, hand drawn oil and gas well location map. Maps are organized by county and then by quadrangle name. Owner names and well locations are shown.
- PA County Plat booksPlat books with owner names for many PA counties can be borrowed from the collection.