Mapping Coles County: Map Resources

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Coles County has four public depositories that contain maps:

• Genealogy Room, Charleston Public Library
• Local History Room, Mattoon Public Library
• University Archives, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University
• Coles County Courthouse

• 1893 Plat Book of Coles County, Illinois
• 1913 Standard Atlas of Coles County, Illinois
• Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas with Descriptions of the World, 1863
• 1876 Atlas of Illinois
• Historical Plat Maps of Coles County, Illinois
• 1923 Map of Charleston
• 1898 Map of Charleston
• 1869 Coles County maps by township
• 1932 Atlas of Coles County, Illinois

• 1884 Bird's-eye View of Mattoon, Illinois
• Township Map of Coles County (no date)
• Historical Plat Maps of Coles County, Illinois
• 1913 Standard Atlas of Coles County, Illinois
• 1876 Atlas of Illinois
• 1932 Atlas of Coles County Illinois
• 1924 Sanborn Maps for Mattoon, Illinois
• Map Guide to the Federal Census, 1790-1920

• Map of Charleston Public Square at the Time of the "Charleston Riot," March 28, 1864 (Box 8 File 40 of Coleman Papers)
• 1893 Plat Book of Coles County
• 1910 Sanborn Maps for Charleston, Illinois (not a complete set)
• 1919 Sanborn Maps for Charleston, Illinois (not a complete set)
• 1898 Map of Charleston (Box 8 File 55 of the Coleman Papers)
• 1923 Map of Charleston (Box 8 File 55 of the Coleman Papers)

This is not a complete listing of the maps at the courthouse.  They also have all the additions and subdivisions for Coles County.  All maps are black and white line drawings. 
 

• Dodge Grove Cemetery, 1869 (slide 1)
• Mattoon as laid out by James T. Cunningham, 1856 (slide 1)
• Location and lands of the Illinois Central Railroad in Coles County (slide 1)
• Mound Cemetery in 1863 (slide 2)
• Tuscola, 1857 (slide 3)
• Newman, 1857 (slide 3)
• Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad (slide 3)
• Peoria, Decateur and Evansville Railroad (slide 4)
• Etna, 1860 (slide 4)
• Rardin, 1881 (slide 5)
• Stockton, 1863 (slide 6)
• Independence, 1835 (slide 7)
• East Charleston, 1835 (slide 7)
• Middleton, 1836 (slide 7)
• Greenup, 1834 (slide 7)
• Hitesville, 1835 (slide 7)
• Columbus, 1841 (slide 7)
• Paradise, 1837 (slide 7)
• Springville, 1837 (slide 7)
• Sheffield, 1838 (slide 8)
• Fillmore, 1848 (slide 8)
• New Boston, 1836 (slide 8)
• Charleston, 1840 (slide 8)
• Salsbury, 1837 (slide 8)
• Charleston, 1836 (slide 8)
• Paradise, 1836 (slide 8)
• Richmond, 1836 (slide 8)
• Woodbury, 1835 (slide 8)
• Liberty, 1836 (slide 8)
• New Salem, 1836 (slide 8)
• Okaw, 1855 (slide 9)
• Bourbon, 1853 (slide 9)
• Farmington, 1852 (slide 10)
• Ashmore, 1855 (slide 10)
• Interment map of West-end Cemetery, 1899 (slide 23)
• Oakland Cemetery (slide 30)
• Grant Park Place, Mattoon, IL (slide 32)
• Normal Park Place, Charleston, IL (slide 32)
• Interment map of Dodge Grove Cemetery, 1925 (slide 37)