Historic Map Works, LLC is an internet-based company formed to create and supply a digital map of the 19th and early 20th century North America.  This is linked to a searchable database of people and places. HMW's maps are extremely detailed and comprehensive, showing the location and footprint of nearly all structures existing during these two centuries, often with the contemporaneous owner's and/or occupant's names adjacent to structures.  Our database is composed of multiple layers through time, in some cases, over 250 years.

Linked to modern Geographical Information System (GIS) latitude and longitude coordinates, residential addresses, and other records (antique directories, census records, phone books, etc.), the history of locations can be viewed throughout time.  Individuals can be traced to their homes, schools, clubs, cemeteries, and businesses, which facilitates a whole new method of genealogy research. Our antique atlas collection used to create HMW's database currently covers all or part of every state in the United States and many countries across the world.  The number of individual maps in our collection numbers more than 100,000.