I'm going to look at some places tonight. My great grandfather had a place on the Mississippi. A portage from ages ago. A spot where my dad plowed up pottery a long time ago.
I just found this 3 year old video and want to thank you very much for this valuable info. I'm going to start metal detecting in my city here and you've just helped me immensely. Again thank you forthis info 👍
I've looked at this site after watching your video. Thanks for this VERY useful information.found a gold wedding band at old homestead that is no longer there farmer told me he has lived in area since 1947 and never remembered a house being there inside wedding band was initials E.F on 1929 map I found the house which sat on 120 acres at that time land was owned by Edwin Francis , thanks for helping put puzzle together. This is the most helpful tool for finding old homesites in this highly farmed area of Central Illinois it also will help me track down the owners of land with old schoolhouses on their land. . I've been detecting for 4 years now and this has to be best advice I've gotten since doing this thanks a lot and keep up the great videos really enjoy watching them. Good luck!!!!!!!'👍🇺🇸
Glad it helped .. I have about 8 home sites pinned down and a few school houses , but still haven't got the chance to get permissions yet . now they are starting to plant in some fields here . I have one school site that I showed in the video that I have permission for but but its in the woods and its grown over now ! I might check it out this weekend , Thanks for reminding me !!
+hiluxyota I've also learned another little trick to help locate exact location of old homesites right after the farmer runs a disc through field drive down road on a sunny day the field will glisten where there's broken glass and I also look for where the old culverts leading into fields give it a try it has helped me pinpoint exact spot where house stood.
unfortunately the sites that I located are deep down into the fields far away from the roads , but I can see where that would work on certain sites or fields that I haven't researched ..I was down in central Ilinois door knocking old houses with a couple friends on Saturday ..
Very good tutorial o Historic Map Works Tom. I've been using that website for quite a while and has helped me locate some good areas to investigate. Well done my friend. Happy Hunting and Best Wishes for Great Finds.
This is the same method I use and it helps out a bunch. Picked up a lot of good finds using Historic Mapworks. Nice tutorial and everyone should try it!!
+JL DIGGER thanks , I know a lot of detectorists use this site , but if this video helped just one person , then putting up this video was well worth it !
Great video Tom. I have used this method to find many old school sites that are now just corn fields. I think this will help a lot of newbies in their quest for old coins. Well done. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
Great video, thanks for the info! Lots I didn't know, and within minutes I found the ruins of a home/farm shown on 1892 map that is only a short walk from my back yard. Think I see a lot of new potential in my rustic area!
+Chris Elfert glad it helped , sometimes certain year plat maps wont give you the option to overlay , when that happens , I just scroll through the following years until I see the overlay option ..
Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to create it. It would be cool to see you make a follow up video on you detecting the house that was on the edge of that field if you could get the permission.
I actually got permission for the old school site , no coins were found but my friend got an old 14k wedding band . we dug a lot of deep modern trash which told us the ground was bulldozed sometime in the past 20 years
This is good information for me to get started finding old homes to detect. Any advice on getting permissions. I have hit a major road block. Now with covid even more so. Ty in advance. Really like you videos. I also get in the water with my scoop looking for rings and just great finds. It's difficult to judge where to place the scoop in order to find the target. Thanks again. I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks for a very informative video. Do you have a paid subscription to historic maps? When I go to the site there are watermarks on the maps. Thanks Dave in PA
Hey Tom . Good tutorial . I'll have to go back to Historic Map Works and try searching again with your tips . I have used Zillow before to find ages of houses , and Postal Zip code maps to look up parks in certain areas too .
+ChicagoDigger Just play around with it , sometimes if the 1800's plat don't give you an option to overlay , then try the next years up like 1900 , a lot of times it will give you the option for other years
Holy crap I've been looking for ways to locate sites in Illinois! I'm over in Peoria county and have found a few 2500 year old Native American sites. Though we can't actually dig the sites, it's still amazing to just see the artifacts. I generally report any finds to the state archaeological department so they can be preserved.
I have detected some older houses in Peoria .. I am also getting into native American artifacts ever since i dug some up in my scoop digging for coins in old river sites..
You can either go to the surrounding farm house and ask , usually if they don't own the land , they very well might know the owner . or the best way is to look up the county assessor. they will have all records public, and information on how many times it was sold and the names of the owner or owners ..Yes i regularly will give the land owner some old coins that i have found , specially if i want to return to a place..
I tried this it didn’t work. Followed your video step by step and it kept coming up with Cambridge Mass. There wasn’t any way of over laying a map as well. Maybe I’m missing a step or two. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rob
+ronnie b prospecting Thanks for watching , a lot of people use this site , but for those who don't , I thought it could be helpful , since its pretty easy to use , if it helps only one person , then I have done my job with this video !!
I just use the historic map works on my phone , I also used historic aerials , but those only go back to the mid or late 1930's.and I mostly look for the older coins from the early to mid 1800's so I rarely use historic aerials ..
sometimes certain years don't have the overlay option..so what I do is check the following years up until I find an option to overlay. for instance theres one town that has a plat in 1874 but it didn't have the overlay option , so I searched up until I found one in the year 1900. You have to buy the premium to actually get all the overlay options I had learned but yes creeks and rivers do change. since then but the maps put you pretty close to where the old home sites or schools or fairgrounds were
well, that site didn't pan out. Looks like it got hit day or 2 before, and they didn't even fill the holes. But have found only 1 plat up to my side of the road. Nothing for the other side-go figure. so options are very limited
Hi bud my name is steve i live in southern Illinois im putting a hunting group together it will be called American Patriot Diggers but what i would really like to do is start a hunting club here. Do you know of any hunting cluds down here. Are you from up northern Illinois ways. I hunt very good areas pope hardin and saline counties. Garden of the gods area. Any suggestions you might have bud would be very much appreciated. GB and HH
Ok thank you Peoria is still way north of me im down by the Ohio river in that area we have the iron furnace which produced cannons for the civil war. Keep in touch new friends are always a good thing. I get set up and running get you down here for some hunts then maybe come up there for a couple.my email is stephen12264@yaho o.com send me a friends request and stay in touch. Good to meet you sir and God Bless.
sometimes the county or town name might have been different back in the 1800's . I come across that a lot and have to try to figure it out when I do the google earth overlay..send me a pm or comment what your town county and state is that your trying to find and I will see if I can find anything older for you..
Oh yeah. Great info. I haven't been into metal detecting long and this is a great help. Thanks
Thanks for sharing this information with us...!
Have a great day and Be Blessed...!
Troy in Northern Indiana.
I'm going to look at some places tonight. My great grandfather had a place on the Mississippi. A portage from ages ago. A spot where my dad plowed up pottery a long time ago.
I just found this 3 year old video and want to thank you very much for this valuable info.
I'm going to start metal detecting in my city here and you've just helped me immensely.
Again thank you forthis info 👍
Thank you so much. The map technique is wonderful as is the Zillo approach to finding the age of homes. Great stuff!!
Indeed, very helpful information here. I had no idea where to start. Thank You Very Much
thanks! will check this out. Historical Aerial maps is another good one.
I've looked at this site after watching your video. Thanks for this VERY useful information.found a gold wedding band at old homestead that is no longer there farmer told me he has lived in area since 1947 and never remembered a house being there inside wedding band was initials E.F on 1929 map I found the house which sat on 120 acres at that time land was owned by Edwin Francis , thanks for helping put puzzle together. This is the most helpful tool for finding old homesites in this highly farmed area of Central Illinois it also will help me track down the owners of land with old schoolhouses on their land. . I've been detecting for 4 years now and this has to be best advice I've gotten since doing this thanks a lot and keep up the great videos really enjoy watching them. Good luck!!!!!!!'👍🇺🇸
Glad it helped .. I have about 8 home sites pinned down and a few school houses , but still haven't got the chance to get permissions yet . now they are starting to plant in some fields here . I have one school site that I showed in the video that I have permission for but but its in the woods and its grown over now ! I might check it out this weekend , Thanks for reminding me !!
+hiluxyota I've also learned another little trick to help locate exact location of old homesites right after the farmer runs a disc through field drive down road on a sunny day the field will glisten where there's broken glass and I also look for where the old culverts leading into fields give it a try it has helped me pinpoint exact spot where house stood.
unfortunately the sites that I located are deep down into the fields far away from the roads , but I can see where that would work on certain sites or fields that I haven't researched ..I was down in central Ilinois door knocking old houses with a couple friends on Saturday ..
+hiluxyota Where you near Champaign Urbana ?
Jacksonville.
Excellent information!!!
I just started metal detecting and searching the Kankakee County area in Illinois !!!
Thanks for sharing !!!
GOD Bless
Good luck ! A lot of people detect and its getting harder to find areas that still have old coins ..
Excellent video presentation...real info for real world detecting...THANK YOU!
Thanks. It's pretty simple to use. You just have to play around with it. Definitely neat to see things from 1870's and how much they changed today.
PedroVision nghcv
I am very happy you showed me this video, I will try it now.
I've checked out historic map works but never knew about the overlay feature-thanks from another Illinois digger!
This was amazing!!! Thank you soo much very helpful and great info for me as a beginner
Was really looking for this information . Thanks man. It takes time but this is part of the fun,well,maybe not fun, but interesting, lol
Very good tutorial o Historic Map Works Tom. I've been using that website for quite a while and has helped me locate some good areas to investigate. Well done my friend. Happy Hunting and Best Wishes for Great Finds.
I'll have to try that out in my area. Thanks for the tip!
This is the same method I use and it helps out a bunch. Picked up a lot of good finds using Historic Mapworks. Nice tutorial and everyone should try it!!
+JL DIGGER thanks , I know a lot of detectorists use this site , but if this video helped just one person , then putting up this video was well worth it !
Exactly!
Great video Tom. I have used this method to find many old school sites that are now just corn fields. I think this will help a lot of newbies in their quest for old coins. Well done. Best wishes and HH, Dave.
Daddy Digger newbies ME I have just started and this is helping me sooo much
Great info! Have used historic maps, but could figure out how to overlay.
John Walczak where to find historic maps
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Great video, thanks for the info! Lots I didn't know, and within minutes I found the ruins of a home/farm shown on 1892 map that is only a short walk from my back yard. Think I see a lot of new potential in my rustic area!
+Chris Elfert glad it helped , sometimes certain year plat maps wont give you the option to overlay , when that happens , I just scroll through the following years until I see the overlay option ..
Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to create it. It would be cool to see you make a follow up video on you detecting the house that was on the edge of that field if you could get the permission.
I actually got permission for the old school site , no coins were found but my friend got an old 14k wedding band . we dug a lot of deep modern trash which told us the ground was bulldozed sometime in the past 20 years
This is good information for me to get started finding old homes to detect. Any advice on getting permissions. I have hit a major road block. Now with covid even more so. Ty in advance. Really like you videos. I also get in the water with my scoop looking for rings and just great finds. It's difficult to judge where to place the scoop in order to find the target. Thanks again. I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks for a very informative video. Do you have a paid subscription to historic maps? When I go to the site there are watermarks on the maps. Thanks Dave in PA
Hey Tom . Good tutorial . I'll have to go back to Historic Map Works and try searching again with your tips . I have used Zillow before to find ages of houses , and Postal Zip code maps to look up parks in certain areas too .
Thanks Tom, I have been using historic maps but I was not to clear on the overlay stuff.
+ChicagoDigger Just play around with it , sometimes if the 1800's plat don't give you an option to overlay , then try the next years up like 1900 , a lot of times it will give you the option for other years
Holy crap I've been looking for ways to locate sites in Illinois! I'm over in Peoria county and have found a few 2500 year old Native American sites. Though we can't actually dig the sites, it's still amazing to just see the artifacts. I generally report any finds to the state archaeological department so they can be preserved.
I have detected some older houses in Peoria .. I am also getting into native American artifacts ever since i dug some up in my scoop digging for coins in old river sites..
Some good info. Thanks!
I remember you mentioned using Zillow too. Thanks for sharing
Nice trips, I'll have to try that, thanks!
Thank you Sir, this is great!
Great info!!! Thanks!
Thank you very informative. how do you find the owners of the property that you want to detect? Do you offer them anything?
You can either go to the surrounding farm house and ask , usually if they don't own the land , they very well might know the owner . or the best way is to look up the county assessor. they will have all records public, and information on how many times it was sold and the names of the owner or owners ..Yes i regularly will give the land owner some old coins that i have found , specially if i want to return to a place..
I tried this it didn’t work. Followed your video step by step and it kept coming up with Cambridge Mass. There wasn’t any way of over laying a map as well. Maybe I’m missing a step or two. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rob
Nice one. That's some interesting info thanks.
+ronnie b prospecting Thanks for watching , a lot of people use this site , but for those who don't , I thought it could be helpful , since its pretty easy to use , if it helps only one person , then I have done my job with this video !!
Awesome thank you
thanks for the cool tips!!!
Excellent tips!!! I loved the Zillow idea!!! Subbed 'cause I know you just put silver in my pocket!!
I tried doing this but the modern map was different then the old one. The old one is off a few inches.
Thanks for making this video! SUBSCRIBED
Really helpful!
Sorry to sound dumb but how did you 1st get to the county you are searching? thanks
the county is in my local area ,, sometimes it might have been a different name back then so you have to just try the county in or around your area
Have you ever used a mobile app on the phone ? I used old maps app but the GPS is off by a lot.. any good ones ?
I just use the historic map works on my phone , I also used historic aerials , but those only go back to the mid or late 1930's.and I mostly look for the older coins from the early to mid 1800's so I rarely use historic aerials ..
I can't overlay any maps of the area I'm looking to hunt. So now I don't know how to go about researching the area. Rivers were different back then
sometimes certain years don't have the overlay option..so what I do is check the following years up until I find an option to overlay. for instance theres one town that has a plat in 1874 but it didn't have the overlay option , so I searched up until I found one in the year 1900. You have to buy the premium to actually get all the overlay options I had learned but yes creeks and rivers do change. since then but the maps put you pretty close to where the old home sites or schools or fairgrounds were
Have you ever been to central IL hunting?
Yes , I make my way out there from time to time ..
very usefull thanks
well, that site didn't pan out. Looks like it got hit day or 2 before, and they didn't even fill the holes. But have found only 1 plat up to my side of the road. Nothing for the other side-go figure. so options are very limited
Hi bud my name is steve i live in southern Illinois im putting a hunting group together it will be called American Patriot Diggers but what i would really like to do is start a hunting club here. Do you know of any hunting cluds down here. Are you from up northern Illinois ways. I hunt very good areas pope hardin and saline counties. Garden of the gods area. Any suggestions you might have bud would be very much appreciated. GB and HH
Im just an hour south of Chicago . we have clubs up here , but I don't really know of any your way except for one in the Peoria area..
Ok thank you Peoria is still way north of me im down by the Ohio river in that area we have the iron furnace which produced cannons for the civil war. Keep in touch new friends are always a good thing. I get set up and running get you down here for some hunts then maybe come up there for a couple.my email is stephen12264@yaho o.com send me a friends request and stay in touch. Good to meet you sir and God Bless.
Thanks it helped allot
The maps from 1942 I've found for our area have no icons for houses or any buildings for that matter :-(
the older plat maps will usually have schools and houses on it , I look for the 1800,s or early 1900's sites
The oldest maps that site has for our area is 1942, oh well
sometimes the county or town name might have been different back in the 1800's . I come across that a lot and have to try to figure it out when I do the google earth overlay..send me a pm or comment what your town county and state is that your trying to find and I will see if I can find anything older for you..
Clallam county, Washington, thanks !
Very nice and informative..Do us a favor and get an extra pair of hands to have a well presented visual .
for some reason I cant find this app, kinda disappointing
cool man awesome, atlas is the key word here hth,
again yoda man
WTF are you saying? Plat map? Plant map? A good place to start is by telling us what that is.
It's a plat map look it up
My opinion, talk more and get rid of the music. Dont just show a coin, give some dialogue and explain what we are looking at.