Somerset County MDGenWeb heritage banner with oystering and decoy-making scenes
Somerset County MDGenWeb heritage emblem
Somerset County MDGenWeb Genealogy and local history on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore

1877 Lake, Griffing and Stevenson atlas

Lower Shore Outline Plan — Interactive Rectified Map

Compare the 1877 outline plan of Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester Counties with today’s Lower Eastern Shore. Use the opacity slider to move between the historic atlas and the modern landscape.

All Somerset maps →

See where the old map fits today

The historic atlas image has been georectified so its roads, waterways, communities, property names, and other features can be compared directly with modern geography.

How to use the map Drag the slider toward Historic to make the 1877 map more visible, or toward Modern to reveal the present-day map underneath. Switch between Street and Satellite for the modern base map. Pan, zoom, or use full-screen mode as needed.

Cemetery locations are optional and hidden by default. Use the Layers / Cemeteries button below to add Somerset, Wicomico, or Worcester burial sites to the historic map.

Modern Historic
Base map:

Historic map visibility: 70%

1877 overlay: Lower Shore Outline Plan

← Somerset Interactive Rectified Maps Browse the 1877 Somerset Atlas Technical MapWarper page
Open another Somerset interactive map: Lower Shore Outline Plan Fairmount District No. 6 Crisfield District No. 7

Map note: The historic overlay is the 1877 Lower Shore Outline Plan from the Lake, Griffing and Stevenson atlas, rectified on MapWarper as map 78766. Rectification aligns a historic map with modern geographic coordinates; small alignment differences are normal because the original atlas survey was not created with modern GPS precision.