Wicomico County Map Room
Official county maps and GIS resources, including base maps, zoning, historic districts, parcels, roads, and other local geographic data.
Put your ancestors on the map
Maps
Explore Wicomico County and the Lower Eastern Shore through historical maps, early USGS topographic sheets, rectified atlas maps, cemetery locations, changing county boundaries, and modern GIS tools.
Browse the 1877 AtlasStart here
Three especially useful map tools
These are particularly good starting points when you are trying to connect an old record or place name to a location on the ground.
Rectified Historical Maps
Historic atlas maps aligned with modern geography. These are tremendously useful for comparing old roads, landowners, waterways, and communities with today’s landscape.
USGS topoView
Browse and download historical U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps. An excellent tool for seeing older roads, buildings, waterways, place names, and landscape features.
Rectified Historical Maps
- Lower ShoreRectified regional map for comparing the historic Lower Shore with modern geography.
- Barren Creek District No. 1Rectified historic election-district map.
- Quantico District No. 2Rectified historic election-district map.
- Tyaskin District No. 3Rectified historic election-district map.
- Pittsburg District No. 4Rectified historic election-district map.
Historical Maps and Atlases
- Lake, Griffing and Stevenson 1877 Atlas — Wicomico CountyDetailed election-district maps showing landowners, roads, towns, schools, churches, waterways, railroads, and other features.
- John C. Lyon’s Old Somerset Hundreds and Land Grant MapsA major research resource showing the evolution of Old Somerset’s hundreds and the spread of colonial land grants over time.
- Martenet’s Atlas of Maryland, 1865 — Somerset CountyWicomico did not yet exist; much of present-day Wicomico appears on this Somerset map.
- Martenet’s Atlas of Maryland, 1865 — Worcester CountyUseful for the eastern portion of the area that became Wicomico County in 1867.
- Lower Eastern Shore Maryland Counties, 1794A portion of H. Brooks Price’s map showing Lower Shore roads, towns, waterways, buildings, and county geography.
- Experimental Survey for the Eastern Shore Rail Road, 1853A remarkable survey map showing the proposed railroad corridor, landowners, roads, fields, streams, and other geographic features.
- Lower Eastern Shore, 1794A period map of Maryland and Delaware showing towns, roads, waterways, houses of worship, mills, and other notable places.
- Eastern Shore ParishesShows parish names, original and later church locations, and county boundaries from different periods.
- Lower Shore Area, 1840 — smaller imageOld Somerset before Wicomico County was created, with older place names, waterways, roads, and boundaries.
- Lower Shore Area, 1840 — high-resolution imageThe larger, crisper version for close examination.
Early USGS Topographic Maps, 1901–1903
- Nanticoke Quadrangle, 1903Locally hosted copy of the official USGS historical topographic map, 1:62,500 scale. Opens in your browser as a high-resolution GeoPDF.
- Pittsville Quadrangle, 1902Locally hosted copy of the official USGS historical topographic map, 1:62,500 scale. Opens in your browser as a high-resolution GeoPDF.
- Salisbury Quadrangle, 1901Locally hosted copy of the official USGS historical topographic map, 1:62,500 scale. Opens in your browser as a high-resolution GeoPDF.
- Search more historical USGS maps with topoViewBrowse the full Historical Topographic Map Collection and download maps in multiple formats.
Wicomico County Maps and GIS
- Wicomico County Map RoomOfficial county base maps, zoning, historic districts, parcels, roads, and GIS downloads.
- Interactive Map of Cemeteries in Wicomico CountyApproximate locations of known cemeteries; many mapped sites include burial information.
- Wicomico County 2020 Census ViewerCurrent county census-demographic map viewer with county, tract, municipal, and village data.
- Wicomico County Election Map RoomCurrent election maps plus historic-reference maps including 2010 census tracts and election districts.
- Wicomico CountyA simple color reference map showing present-day county boundaries and principal towns.
- Old SomersetShows 17th-century Somerset County and the daughter counties later created from it.
- Somerset’s HundredsHistoric administrative subdivisions of Old Somerset County, based on Wilmer O. Lankford’s They Lived in Somerset.
Wildlife Management Area Maps
- Ellis Bay WMAMaryland DNR map of the wildlife management area in southwestern Wicomico County and surrounding geography.
- Nanticoke River WMA — Nutters NeckMaryland DNR map showing WMA boundaries, trails, parking, and the Nanticoke River.
- Wetipquin WMAMaryland DNR map showing the WMA, Wetipquin Creek, roads, trails, woods, marsh, and nearby communities.
- Johnson WMACurrent Maryland DNR page for Johnson Wildlife Management Area in southern Wicomico County.
Additional Mapping and Place-Name Research Tools
- MEDUSA — Maryland’s Cultural Resource Information SystemMaryland Historical Trust map- and text-search system for architectural resources, historic properties, and other sites recorded in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties.
- The National Map ViewerCurrent USGS mapping for boundaries, elevation, hydrography, roads, structures, place names, and topographic-map availability.
- Maryland Historical Topographic Maps — Perry-Castañeda LibraryA convenient University of Texas collection of older Maryland USGS quadrangles.