New River Notes - Geography Page


Map of Southwestern Virginia showing magisterial districts in each county
Map of Southside and Western Virginia showing magisterial districts in each county
Both of these maps, courtesy of Paul Anderson

New River physical watershed
Counties of the United States in 1790
Physical Characteristics
Climate Information
Forest Trees of the Upper New River Valley
Thermal Springs of Virginia
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for southwest Virginia, northwest North Carolina and northeast Tennessee Counties
Regional Maps, ca. 1920


Western Virginia 1774
Map discovered in the National Archives in the Records of the Continental Congress by Billy J. Markland, who provided this electronic copy.

Map State of Franklin, 1792, Note the boundary at the Blue Ridge.

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