Transportation & Communication

Roads, railroads, and waterways all helped connect regions within the State of Missouri. Each type of transportation played an important role in Missouri's growth and development.

Automobile road map

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Description:Shows improved and unimproved roads, railroad and electric railroad lines, townships, counties, sections and surveys.

Date: 1916

Scale: ca. 1:202,752

Mapmaker: Mosberger, W. A.

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Heinicke-Fiegel Litho. Co.


Berry Company's road map of Missouri

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Description:Main roads shown in red, other roads in black. Also shows railroads, county seats, towns. State divided into 12-1/2 mile squares. : The Jackson County inset also shows: wagon roads, creeks & springs, Macadamized roads, churches, school houses. Inset: The Berry Co's road map of St. Charles & st. Louis Counties, Mo. 21 x 25 cm. Scale ca. 1:297,792. Inset: The Berry Company's road map of Jackson County, Mo. 19 x 18 cm. Scale ca. 1:253,440.

Date: 1911

Scale: ca. 1:1,029,600

Mapmaker: Berry Company

Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Berry Company


Commissioners official railway map of Missouri

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Description:Shows relief by hachures, drainage, names river valleys, indicates cities and towns and county boundaries. The only color is the red showing the names of the various railroads.

Date: 1902

Scale: 1:760,320. : W 96¦00'--W 89¦00'/N 40¦30'--N 36¦00'

Mapmaker: Missouri Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Higgins & Co.


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Description:Includes 'Geological section along the south-west branch' and 'Distances from Saint Louis to points on south west branch, Pacific R. Road.' urnaces, copper, copper furnaces, zinc, coal mines, railroads in operation/unfinished. Also shows geological features via shading and letters. From: 'Geological section along the line of the southwestern branch of the Pacfic Railroad, State of Missouri / by G.C. Swallow -- St. Louis, 1859 -- :

Date: 1859

Scale: ca. 1:582,000. : Vertical scale 1:14,400. 1200 ft. to an inch.

Mapmaker: Swallow, G. C. (George Clinton), 1817-1899

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Lith. by Schaerff & Bro.


Higgins' road map of St. Louis and vicinity

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Description:Shows pikes, county roads, and railroads. Includes City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and parts of St. Charles County (Missouri) and parts of Madison County and St. Clair County (Illinois).

Date: 1895

Scale: 1:31,680. 'Half inch per mile.'

Mapmaker: Higgins & Co.

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Higgins & Co.


Kennedy's sectional map of St. Louis

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Description:Includes street index. : Includes Illinois Town (East Saint Louis) and Brooklyn, both in Saint Clair County, Illinois.

Date: 1859

Scale: ca. 1:25,500

Mapmaker: Robert V. Kennedy & Co.

Published: [St. Louis] : R.V. Kennedy


L.A. Wilson's railroad & township map of Missouri

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Date: 1876

Scale: ca. 1:1,450,000

Mapmaker: Wilson, Lewis A.

Published: Chicago,Ill : published by Geo. F. Cram, proprietor of the Western Map Depot


Map of St. Louis, St. Charles & Western R.R.

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Description:Shows electric, steam, and belt steam railroads.

Date: 1910(?)

Mapmaker: St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad

Published: [St. Louis, Mo.] : St. Louis, St. Charles & Western Railroad


Map showing the railroad termials and connections at St. Louis and East St. Louis

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Description:Also includes the proposed route of the Merchants' Terminal Railway Co. and the location of the Merchnats' Bridge, now in course of construction, also the route of the proposed belt of the St. Louis Bridge & Tunnel Railway Co. Railroads colored in red.

Date: 1888

Scale: ca. 1:32,300

Mapmaker: ca. 1:32,300

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : R. P. Studley & Co. Lith.


Missouri county seat highway map

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Description:Shows county seat roads in red with road no. and mileage. Also steam and electric railroads, rivers, cities over 5,000, county seats, bench marks, and elevation at railroad stations.

Date: 1918

Scale: ca. 1:760,320

Mapmaker: Missouri. State Highway Dept.

Published: Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Highway Department


Missouri state road map

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Description:Shows state roads in red. Also steam and electric railroads, rivers, cities over 5,000, county seats, bench marks, and elevation at railroad stations.

Date: 1918

Scale: ca. 1:760,320

Mapmaker: Missouri. State Highway Dept.

Published: Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Highway Department


Official railroad map of Missouri

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Description: Railroad map shows rivers, railroads (completed and proposed), county seats, and R.R. stations. Township map shows rivers, property ownership and improvements. From: An illustrated historical atlas of Mercer County, Missouri -- Philadelphia, PA : Edwards Brothers, 1877 -- p. 49-50.

Date: 1877

Scale: 1:1,774,080 and 1:31,680

Mapmaker: Edwards Brothers of Missouri

Published: Philadelphia., Pa. : Edwards Brothers


Pilot's map of St. Louis County

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Description:Shows roads; steam and electric railroads; city, township and section lines.

Date: 1914

Scale: ca. 1:95,040

Mapmaker: Schrowang, O.

Published: St. Louis, Mo. : engraved and published by O. Schrowang


Plat of St. Louis and East St. Louis

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Description:Inset: Plan of Union Station and approaches, Mill Creek Valley from the tunnel west to Spring Ave. Scale 1:6,00 12 x 36 cm.

Date: 1923

Scale: ca. 1:31,680

Mapmaker: Mosberger, W. A.

Published: [St. Louis, Mo.?] : [s.n.]


Railroad map of St. Louis

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Date: 1921

Scale: ca. 1:66,000

Mapmaker: St. Louis Chamber of Commerce--Engineers Committee

Published: [St. Louis, Mo. ?] : C.E. Smith & Co.


Transportation map of Missouri

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Date: 1904

Scale: ca. 1:2, 534,000. W 96¦00'--W 89¦00'/N 40¦30'--N 36¦00'

Mapmaker: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)--Missouri Commission

Published: New York : Julius Bien & Co., Lith.