Map of the Seat of War in Florida, compiled by order of Bvt. Brigr. Genl. Z. Taylor, principally from the surveys and reconnaissances of…
The Army’s map of Florida during the Second Seminole War: the trails and roads the troops followed — many of them older Seminole and Miccosukee paths — the forts and battlefields, the Seminole towns, and the district assigned to the Seminoles by General Macomb in May 1839.
Source
| Map | Seat of War |
|---|---|
| Author | John Mackay and J. E. Blake, 1839 |
| Archive | Library of Congress |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1839 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 37 km (RMS 10 km at 21 control points). Placed by hand in a map-queue session and approved by a person. If something sits in the wrong place, members can fix it with Fix placement on the map. |
| Method | Placed by hand: a smoothing thin-plate spline through 21 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | Florida, Georgia |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (8.3 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (4919 × 6000; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (19.6 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.2 MB)
Project Homeland
This map is open for tracing into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source. Members trace a trail by clicking along it: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.1 (2026-10-06): Fix: place names re-placed where the map draws them (they had been set by an approximation of the warp: median 3.0 km, up to 4 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-10-06): First release: placed by hand at 21 places. From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Library of Congress
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
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