Rutgers Geography | 75 Years | 1949 - 2024

Historical Maps of New Jersey

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 Unless otherwise noted, most of the map images on these webpages are from Rutgers' Special Collections and University Archives
Permission is granted solely to view these map images. No other permission to use the map images on these webpages is granted.

COPIES OF THE MAPS ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE

Pleistocene Ice Movement, Northern NJ Visscher's Map of New Belgium and New England
Svydt Rivier 1639? | source: Library of Congress East and West New Jersey 1706 | source: Library of Congress
Pa, Nova Jersey et Nova York 1748?  | source: Library of Congress  
Barnegat to Cape May 1770   | source: Library of Congress NJ, NY, part of PA Quebec 1775 | source: Library of Congress
New Jersey 1776   | source: Library of Congress Faden New Jersey Provinces 1777 | source:  Library of Congress
Delaware Bay 1778 | source: Library of Congress Trenton New Brunswick Turnpike | source: Library of Congress
New Jersey_1780 | source:  Library of Congress New Jersey boundary lines 1784
New Jersey 1795 | source:  Library of Congress New Jersey 1797 | source:  Rumsey Maps
30 miles around New York 1811 | source:  Rumsey Maps New Jersey 1812 | source:  Rumsey Maps
New Jersey 1826 New Jersey 1834
New Jersey 1835 New Jersey 1836 | source:  Rumsey Maps
NJ Historical Maps | New Jersey 1839 Geologic Map North Half | South Half
New Jersey 1856 New Jersey 1860 (from the Chester Library) | About this map
40 miles around New York 1867| source:   Library of Congress Coal of Pennsylvania to NY via Perth Amboy 1868 | source: Library of Congress
New Jersey 1872 outline map for schools NJ Colton 1878
New Jersey 1878 with terminal moraine NJ Iron Ore & Limestone Districts 1878 West Half | East Half
North New Jersey topographic 1882 | source:   Library of Congress  
NJ/NY Boundary1887 in the Raritan Bay New Jersey 1889 Geologic Map North Half | South Half
New Jersey 1890 New Jersey 1892 with watersheds
Glacial Striae on the Palisade Ridge 1893  
New Jersey 1900 with forests Northern NJ forests 1900 (also mines & quarries); S. Jersey Pines/Oaks
New Jersey 1906 North Half | South Half
New Jersey 1909 North Half | South Half New Jersey Inland Waterways 1911
New Jersey 1913 North Half | South Half New Jersey 1918 North half | South Half
New Jersey Electric companies 1922 New Jersey Electric Companies 1928
New Jersey Inland Waterways 1928 NJ Time Machine – compare 1930 and 2020 Imagery
New Jersey Civil Divisions 1940 | Inland Waterway
New Jersey Geology 1940 New Jersey Turnpike Map ca 1950 (back of map) | NJ Civil Divisions
NJ Postal Routes 1913 New Jersey Postal Routes 1953
New Jersey Land Types 1954 (text on back) New Jersey Invites You - tourist sites and prisons 1955 (?). Note by Rob Fini questioned the 1955 date emailing, "at Lakehurst the map notes the air station is the "home of the Macon;" the USS Macon was in service from 1933 to 1935, wrecking in the Pacific ocean on February 12".
New Jersey Electric companies 1959 New Jersey High Schools 1960s
Atlantic City Expressway || (back of map) 1970s Port Authority District 1979

 THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NEW JERSEY'S COUNTIES

ATLANTIC BERGEN BURLINGTON CAMDEN CAPE MAY CUMBERLAND ESSEX
GLOUCESTER HUDSON HUNTERDON MERCER MIDDLESEX MONMOUTH MORRIS
OCEAN PASSAIC SALEM SOMERSET SUSSEX UNION WARREN

 THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF RUTGERS/NEW BRUNSWICK (campus map images courtesy of Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives)

Douglass and Agricultural Colleges 1930 Douglass Campus (date unknown) Douglass Campus 1962
University Heights 1947 College Ave & University Heights 1951 University Heights 1963 Busch Campus 1973
Kilmer Campus 1973 Camp Kilmer Pamphlet Kilmer Map 1 Kilmer Map 2
CAC campus ca. 1910 CAC campus ca. 1911 CAC campus ca. 1930 CAC campuses pictorial.jpg
Rutgers University ca. 1939 CAC ca. 1939 CAC ca. 1939 rev 1950 CAC ca. 1939 rev 1950 text
New Brunswick & RU Sites

 The maps below are from the 1872 F.W. Beers Atlas of New Jersey -  courtesy of Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives

1872 Atlas of New Jersey - F.W. Beers

1873 G.M. Hopkins Atlas of New Jersey from the Library of Congress

Examples of cartography by John E. Brush

HISTORICAL MAP LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives Library of Congress Geography & Map Division David Rumsey Map Collections
American Geographical Society Digital Collection    
Norman B. Leventhal Map Collections NY Public Library Digital Collections  Newberry Library Digital Collections
Historical USGS Maps NOAA Historical Maps & Charts University of Alabama Map Collections
1895 Rand McNally atlas map of NJ index to data on the 1895 map Perry Castenada Library Map Collections
Historical European Maps Ancient World Mapping Center Images of Early Maps
19th Century Poverty Maps of London Panorama of the Thames project NJ Railroad Retrospective
Genealogy/Local History (NJ State Library) NJ Resources (NJ State Library) Digital Jerseyana collection (NJ State Library)

 

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COPIES OF THE MAPS ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE.
Permission is granted solely to view these map images. No other permission to use the map images on these webpages is granted.

 

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