Yellow Pine Backcountry Historical Museum

From 1943 Yellow Pine Quadrant topo map

Useful links to Yellow Pine, Idaho area maps and other records online…

USGS topographic maps:

http://cida.usgs.gov/hqsp/apex/f?p=262:1:36614616756604

This takes you to the search page – entering “Yellow Pine” in “Idaho” will take you to the Yellow Pine quadrangle maps.  See also other nearby towns such as Big Creek, Edwardsburg, Stibnite, Warm Lake, etc. (These maps are in a range of dates, many not very old – but a few go back to the 1930s and 40s.)

BLM General Land Office records:

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

These include old federal land patents (including homestead patents), survey plats and field notes, and land status records.

US Census maps of Idaho:

http://www.idgenweb.org/map-census.html

See the boundaries for each US census taken in Idaho since 1850 (when Idaho was part of the Oregon Territory).

Miscellaneous historical Idaho maps:

http://www.idgenweb.org/maps_places.html

Here is a wonderful mishmash of links to Idaho maps through history (including ghost towns, pre-1900 Indian holdings, and a map of 1800s gold strikes).