Paper Maps

U.S. Department of Environmental Conservation (2009)


Lewis County (2011)


U.S. Department of Environmental Conservation (1968, Revised in 1976 & 1995)


Lyons Falls and Lowville (1855)


Asher & Adams New Topo Atlas Herkimer County (1871)


Verplanck Colvin Original Adirondack Triangulation (1872) (Original Link) (ADK Almanak Article)


Adirondack Great Land Patents (1873)


Wallace Guide Map of the New York Wilderness (1876)


Original Survey of the Beaver River (1878)

Drawn by Frank Tweedy for Verplanck Colvin's Survey

Special thanks to Mary Kunzler-Larmann for researching, locating, and combining the multiple sheets to create this map.

The original scans can be found here.  Click on the image for the full sized edited/combined version.


Coltons Map of the New York Wilderness (1879)


Coltons Map of the New York Wilderness (1881)


Map of the Adirondack Wilderness by SR Stoddard (1881)


Map of John Brown's Tract (1883)


Map of the Adirondack Wilderness & Adjoining Territory (1884)


John Brown Tract (1886)


Coltons Map of the New York Wilderness (1890)


Seneca Ray Stoddard (1891)


Ink & Pen Pre-Reservoir (Unknown Year)


ADK Forest and Adjoining Territory - J.B. Koetteritz (1893)


Beaver River Club Property Map (1893)


Hamilton & Herkimer Counties (1895)


NY Central & Hudson River RR ADK Division (1895)


ADK Forest & Adjoining Territory (1896) 


Herkimer County Map - J.B. Koetteritz (1897)


Adirondack Timber and Mineral Company, Mary L Fisher & Waldorf Forest Company (1898)

Article Discussing This Map Being Filed


ADK Forest & Adjoining Territory (1898)


Map of Watershed - Reservoirs In Adirondacks (1898)


Adirondack Region North & South - George H Walker Co. Boston (1900)


Pierce Map of Beaver River Club (1901)


Henry Beach Postcard Map 

Estimated age between 1901 (Rapshaw @ Witchhopple opened) and 1906 (Stanton evicted in Dec '05)

Special thanks to Frank Carey for sharing this scan from his postcard collection, and Ed Pitts for narrowing the estimated date range.


NY Central & Hudson River Railroad Map (1902)


ADK Forest & Adjoining Territory (1905)


Herkimer County - Century Map Co. (1906)


ADK Forest & Adjoining Territory (1909 or 1911)


ADK NY Central Rail Lines (1909)


Herkimer County (1910)


Map of the Adirondacks - Seneca Ray Stoddard (1912)


USGS Fire Protection Map (1913)


NY State Sectional Road Map (1915)


Mary L Fisher Estate Map (1916)


Sketch Indicating Location of Red Horse-Oswegatchie Trail - Ray Jessup (1919)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 2 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 3 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 4 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 5 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 6 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 7 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 8 (1921)


Black River Regulating District - Sheet 9 (1921)


NYS BRRD Enlargement of Stillwater Reservoir - Lands To Be Lumbered & Cleared (1923)


Fisher Forestry and Realty Company - Hardwood Reservation (1924)


Clarence L Fisher & Florence Fisher Jackson Estate Map (1924)


ADK Forest & Adjoining Territory (1927)



Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence Reservation (1927)


W.M. Foss Forester Conservation Department (1931)


Canfield Family Map (1950)

Drawn by Howard W. Rowley, member of the Evergreen Hunting Club


ADK Lakes Near Beaver & the Red Horse Chain (Unknown Year)


NY State DEC (1985)




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