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Orleans parish is bordered by St. Tammany Parish and Lake Pontchartrain to the north, Lake Borgne to the east, by St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes to the southeast and Jefferson Parish to the southwest.

Land Records

• Louisiana Purchase documents and deeds are available through the LSU Digital Library.
   

• Available through Rootsweb: An interface to the Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents from the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office (GLO) Automated Records Project.  This data was prepared for the Web by Karen Isaacson and Joy Fisher. In the form below, at least the first two letters of the surname (that is, at least Sm from Smith or Is from Isaacson) are required. 
  http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/laland/laland.pl

Maps

• 1908 Map of New Orleans
   
• 1895 Map of Louisiana
   
• Historical Maps of the United States (including mapped growth since pre-Revolution)
   
• Interactive map of current day Orleans Parish including topography
   
• Current-day map of Orleans Parish

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