Mapping History

• Lynnwood/Alderwood Manor Heritage Association
• Monroe Historical Society
• Index Historical Museum
• Skykomish Historical Museum
• Mukilteo Historical Society
• Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society
• Monte Cristo Preservation Association (MCPA)
• Stanwood Historical Society
• United States Forest Service, Darrington
• Snohomish Historical Society
• Sno-Isle Genealogical Society (SIGS)
• Marysville Historical Society (Walt Bailey)
• Darrington Historical Society
• Snohomish County Museum of History
• Edmonds Historical Society
• Lake Stevens Historical Society
• Everett Public Library - Northwest Room
• Sno-Isle Library - Snohomish

Simply by entering a homesteader name or a current propertyadress, users can “tune and zoom” to the precise location and view the birth, growth, and sometimes demise of towns, railroads, schools, and businesses over the last one-and-a-half centuries. New maps continue to be submitted, so the project continues, adding maps and sharing across all the participating organizations.

When the County GIS organization saw the initial results, they contributed hundreds of early railroad survey maps they had once digitized, but for which they had never found a real use. With those geo-referenced and added as another map “layer”, users can examine every siding and spur, relating them to the maps of various vintages.

Entire County Benefits

Through the generosity of an ESRI grant for ArcGIS to the Granite Falls Historical Museum, all of Snohomish County has taken a leap forward in the preservation of, and access to, a wealth of information embedded in vintage maps. To see the progress being made in establishing a robust Snohomish County Historic Register, please click here.

For more information, contact Fred Cruger, Granite Falls Historical Museum, abbott1912@aol.com .

Special Projects

A lot of cool things have been learned as a result of the Granite Falls Historical Museum mapping project!

Click here to read more!

Multiple groups within the League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations (LOSCHO) can compare maps ranging from original homestead lines to modern aerial photographs and parcel lines. See examples here. Please visit a local museum to access the system that provides high-resolution maps and images.

Now ONLINE!
To improve access, we have put a number of easy-to-use maps ONLINE, accessible to you with just your browser!
The first allows you to explore Snohomish County ca. 1910, the second shows homesteads and maps from the first 100 years of the county, and the third shows "Early Stillaguamish Valley Schools", based on the book of the same title from the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society.

For examples of online research, click here.