Hi everyone, I am trying to find the location of a old camp ground in a little town not too far from home. I have seen a few old postcards of this camp but it no longer exist. I do know that it was on the river in this little town but that is about it. I was wondering if they might have some kind of tax records etc. that might be able to help me. It existed during the 1930's and that is about all I know. I also have not talked to any locals in the small town yet either. I will try to do that when I have time. Thanks in advanced and HH.
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looking for advice on finding old campground
- Thread starter pointer80
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Try historic mapworks
one thing i've been doing since i retired is looking thru books on family histories. i'm not into tracingt family history but some of these have some pretty detailed info about events of the day. if you could find some that go back to that time they may mention the camp ground. good luck.
If you go to the USGS site http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/ and enter the name of you town, and state that is nearest to the campground, look for the oldest topo map available. Then, try a couple more maps, especially, if you know the approximate date of the post card, match that date up to the nearest topo map available.
You can scroll the topo maps online, download them, print them out on your computer, or, better yet, take them to a surveryor, like your county surveryor and ask how much to print the map out in a larger scale.
If you scroll the map online, you should be able to find the campground, or, a cluster of buildings on the map, even if the location isn't identified on the map.
I have a friend who lives near a spring called BONANZA... I put in BONANZA SPRING, and his state, and the location came up on the topo map.
You may try putting in the name of your campground at the USGS site I posted, and see if it comes up... like this..
"Buster Campground, Iowa" See what happens. Now, you may have to hit the + or - sign to zoom in or out to see if you are near your town, but it just may come up. If not, you can go back to the scrolling the map method, near the town that you believe it is near.
All the best
You can scroll the topo maps online, download them, print them out on your computer, or, better yet, take them to a surveryor, like your county surveryor and ask how much to print the map out in a larger scale.
If you scroll the map online, you should be able to find the campground, or, a cluster of buildings on the map, even if the location isn't identified on the map.
I have a friend who lives near a spring called BONANZA... I put in BONANZA SPRING, and his state, and the location came up on the topo map.
You may try putting in the name of your campground at the USGS site I posted, and see if it comes up... like this..
"Buster Campground, Iowa" See what happens. Now, you may have to hit the + or - sign to zoom in or out to see if you are near your town, but it just may come up. If not, you can go back to the scrolling the map method, near the town that you believe it is near.
All the best