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Here's how you can see all County Lines on Google Maps

QUICK LINK TO THE MAP TOOL: County Lines on Google Maps

Did you ever notice that Google Maps doesn't display all county boundaries?

Sure enough, try it...best you can do is to get one county's boundaries to draw at a time by searching for that county in Google Maps. Like this, where I searched for "Park County, CO":

Well, what if you want to see all of the county lines in Google Maps?

You can now, by using this free web page that I created: County Lines on Google Maps

UPDATE: In addition to the US, you can now also view county lines in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland and Mexico.

You'll see all the county borders for the state you're looking at, drawn on top of a fully functional Google Map! Feel free to share if you find it useful!
TIP: Enlarge the map to full screen by clicking that button in the upper right corner of the map!

Note: US coverage includes all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mar…

How to link to an HISTORICAL County Lines map for any Year and Geographic Area of Interest -- overlaid on Google Maps

NOTE: This article relates to HISTORICAL County Lines. Here are the instructions for linking to PRESENT-day County Lines.

If you have a website or blog and want to create a link to an HISTORICAL county lines map for ANY YEAR and ANY US STATE, this article is for you!

Using the instructions below, you can create a link to Historical U.S. Counties on Google Maps for any historical year already zoomed into a particular State, and optionally display the labels showing the county names as of that historical year.

Here's how it works:

To create a map zoomed into a state for a given year, create a link such as this:
https://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html?state=CT&year=1788

To create a map zoomed into a state for a given year, and show county name labels, create a link such as this:
https://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html?state=OR&year=1865&labels=show
TIP: copy/paste the above links and customize to suit your needs

To explain the above example links, there are three words (c…

Show me ALL of the names!

You've always been able to search or click on the map and have information about the ONE spot where you clicked appear at the bottom of the map, like this:

"But wouldn't it be nice," many people have asked over the years, "to see ALL of the names of the counties on the map rather than just the one that I clicked?" Or something to that effect.

Now you can. Just go to the Historical U.S. Counties on Google Maps tool and check "Show labels..." checkbox in the lower left corner of the map, and your map will be pleasantly filled with the historical county names as of the date you typed, like this (click the image below to enlarge it):

This new functionality to add names has been added to the following tools: Historical U.S. Counties on Google Maps, County Lines on Google Maps, ZIP Codes on Google Maps and Area Codes on Google Maps.
Here's an example of the labels on the County Lines on Google Maps tool:

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Here's how you can see all County Lines on Google Maps

QUICK LINK TO THE MAP TOOL: County Lines on Google Maps

Did you ever notice that Google Maps doesn't display all county boundaries?

Sure enough, try it...best you can do is to get one county's boundaries to draw at a time by searching for that county in Google Maps. Like this, where I searched for "Park County, CO":

Well, what if you want to see all of the county lines in Google Maps?

You can now, by using this free web page that I created: County Lines on Google Maps

UPDATE: In addition to the US, you can now also view county lines in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland and Mexico.

You'll see all the county borders for the state you're looking at, drawn on top of a fully functional Google Map! Feel free to share if you find it useful!
TIP: Enlarge the map to full screen by clicking that button in the upper right corner of the map!

Note: US coverage includes all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mar…

How you may be sabotaging your search for ancestors...and how to fix it!

OK, let's say you're searching in the 1880 United States Federal Census for an ancestor that you know lived in Denver, Colorado at that time. The ancestor's name is James Smith and you think he was born sometime around 1850.

Navigating to Ancestry.com's 1880 Federal Census search page, you type the above information into the
search form, as shown at right. As you start typing "Denver" into the "Lived in" box, Ancestry very kindly offers you suggestions.

You think to yourself, "Why thank you, I'll choose the first option, 'Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA'. Sounds about right."

You click Search and get the results shown below:

7,611 search results! Ouch. And that's with the "Exact" boxes checked next to the First and Last Names as shown above.

So you think, "Hmm, time to edit my search and check some more 'Exact' boxes so I can narrow down my search results." Since …

Now use your current location on all randymajors.com mapping tools!

This enhancement applies all of the mapping tools on this website:

County Lines on Google Maps
ZIP Codes on Google Maps
City Limits on Google Maps
Township Range on Google Maps
Location Explorer on Google Maps
Climate Info on Google Maps
Time Zones on Google Maps
Area Codes on Google Maps
Historical U.S. Counties on Google Maps

On all of these randymajors.com mapping tools, you always had to start by typing in a city, address, place, etc.

Now with this latest enhancement, if you want to know more about your current location, you can just click the "⊕ Locate" buttons in the upper right corner of the map to immediately zoom to your current location.

Depending on which of the above tools you're using, once the map zooms in, the name of the current county, city, ZIP Code, or historical county will appear, along with all of the applicable boundaries.

How might this be useful?
- You want to find out "what county am I in?"
- You're on the road and standing on your ancestor…

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