Olympia and Thurston County, WA History
 

Maps, Charts, and Geographic Information
 
 

• Thurston County Place Names

Transcribed by Roger Easton
 
• Donation Land Claims, Tumwater Vicinity

City of Tumwater Publication
 
• Post Office Sites in Thurston County

from Ramsey, Postmarked Washington, Thurston County
 
• Birdseye Map of Olympia, 1879

view is looking southwest from the east side
 
• Site Map of the Catholic Mission at Priest Point

From Olympia's Forgotten Pioneeers by David Nicandri
 
 

• Automobile Blue Book Map of Olympia, 1917

Historical Maps Library at the University of Texas
 
• Cram's Map of Thurston County, 1909

from the USGenweb Digital Map Library
 
• Cram's Railroad Map of Washington, 1896

from the Library of Congress' Railroad Map Collection
 
• David Rumsey Collection

contains detailed maps of 19th Century Washington
 
• Early Oregon & Washington Maps

at the Oregon Historical Society
 
• Early Washington Maps Digital Collection

at UW Map Collection and Cartographic Information Services
 
• Geographic Names Information

from the USGS Geographic Names Information System [GNIS]
 
• Historical Nautical Charts of South Puget Sound

from the NOAA Historical Map and Chart Collection
• Olympia Harbor, 1856
• Olympia Harbor, 1895
• Seattle to Olympia, 1905

 
• Historic Places in Washington Search Page

at the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
 
• Interactive Thurston County Map

at Thurston GeoDATA Center
 
• Land Patent Records Search

from the Bureau of Land Management
 
• List of Thurston County Localities and Links to Topographical Maps

from TopoZone
 
• Thurston County Map, 1895

from the 1895 US Atlas Site at Livingston County MI Genweb
 
• Thurston County Watersheds

from the US Environmental Protection Agency
 
• Washington Place Names Database

at the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room
 

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