Cartography of Jamaica
# Cartography of Jamaica

The Cartography of Jamaica is the history of surveying and creation of maps of Jamaica. A list of maps of Jamaica in chronological order is shown below.

## 1494–1949

Sortable table :

| K# | Date | Title | Carto- grapher | Description |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1528 | Map of Jamaica | Benedetto Bordone | A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. |
| 2 | 1562 | Isola Cuba Nova | Girolamo Ruscelli | Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. |
| 4 | 1572 | Jamaica | Tomaso Porcacchi | Early map of Jamaica (and part of Cuba) engraved by Girolamo Porro for Porcacchi's book L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo, first published in Venice in 1572. |
| 8 | 1631 | Map of the Caribbean | Gerardus Mercator(?) | Fragment showing Jamaica from map of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola and S Margarita Island (off the coast of Venezuela) in the first Cloppenburgh edition of the large-format Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor, published in Amsterdam, 1630. |
| 13 | 1671 | Novissima et Accura-tissima Jamaicae Descriptio | John Ogilby | Engraved by F Lamb, includes a table showing plantations, precincts and settlements on the island. |
| 17 | 1671 | A new and exact map of the isle of Jamaica | Richard Bloome | Survey carried out on the instructions of the Governor Thomas Modyford divided into precincts and parishes |
| 22 | 1676 | Jamaica and Barbados | John Speed | Top half of a hand tinted map of Jamaica and Barbados printed by Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, London, England. On the reverse there is a description of the two islands. |
| 26 | 1680 | Jamaica | Nicolaes Visscher II | |
| | 1683 | de Cuba et de Iamaica | Alain Manesson Mallet | An extract showing Jamaica from an engraving in Mallet's Description de L'Univers published by Thierry, Paris, 1683. |
| | 1684 | A New and Exact Mapp of the Island of Jamaica | Charles Bochart and Humphrey Knollis | |
| 24 | 1688 | Insula Jamaica | Robert Morden | |
| 49 | 1710 | Neiuwe Kaart van het Eyland Jamaica | Hermann Moll | |
| | 1711 | Jamaica | | |
| | 1715 | A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies | John Senex | |
| | 1717 | A New Map of the Island of Jamaica | Herman Moll | |
| 54 | 1720 | The island of Jamaica divided into its principal parishes... | Herman Moll | |
| | 1728 | The Island of Jamaica | Herman Moll | |
| | 1730 | Dominia Anglorum præcipuis in Insulis Americæ | Homann's Heirs | |
| 65 | 1744 | A New and Accurate Map of the Island of Jamaica | Emanuel Bowen | |
| 64 | 1746 | La Jamaique | Georges-Louis Le Rouge | |
| 66 | 1753 | Carte de l'Isle de Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | |
| 71 | 1755 | A new map of Jamaica ... from actual surveys made ... from the year 1730 to 1749 | Patrick Browne | |
| | 1757 | A Correct Map of Jamaica | Georg Dionysius Ehret | |
| 77 | 1758 | Carte de l'Isle de Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | |
| 76 | 1758 | Carte Particularie De L’ Isle De La Jamaique | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin | |
| | 1760 | A Correct Map of Jamaica | | |
| 83 | 1762 | A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica | John Gibson | |
| 89 | 1765 | A New Map of the Island of Jamaica | Thomas Kitchin | |
| 101 | 1775 | Jamaica | Thomas Jeffreys | |
| 104 | 1779 | La Giammaica | Antonio Zatta | |
| 105 | 1780 | Carte de l'Isle de la Jamaique | Rigobert Bonne | |
| 131 | 1794 | A Map of the Island of Jamaica | Bryan Edwards | |
| 141 | 1805 | Charte von Jamaica | Jean Baptiste Marie George Bory de Saint Vincent | |
| | 1812 | Isle de la Jamaique | Arrowsmith | |
| 145 | 1814 | Jamaica | John Thomson | |
| 150 | 1822 | Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Jamaica | Carrey & Lea | |
| 151 | 1823 | Jamaica | Fielding Lucas | |
| 152 | 1825 | Jamaique | J A Buchon | |
| | 1835 | The British Island in the West Indies | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | |
| | 1836 | Jamaica | J & C Walker | |
| | 1850 | Tourist Map of the Island of Jamaica | Edward Vincent D'Invilliers | |
| | 1851 | Jamaica | J Rapkin / J Tallis | |
| | 1854 | Jamaica | Harvey Newcomb | |
| | 1859 | Map of Haiti and Jamaica | Edward Weller | |
| | 1860 | Island of Jamaica | Fullarton | |
| | 1880 | General Chart of the Island of Jamaica | John Purdy | |
| | 1882 | Outline Map of Jamaica | Dangerfield | |
| | 1892 | Cuba and Jamaica | D Appleton & Co | |
| | 1903 | Jamaica | Dodd, Mead and Company | |
| | 1908 | Jamaica Earthquake | Vaughn Cornish | |
| | 1910 | Jamaica | Cram | |

## 1950–1979

### The 1:50,000 series

Between the early 1950s and the late 1970s the UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys published several editions of a series of maps of Jamaica at the scale of 1:50,000. The following table summarises the known publication dates. Online copies can be found on Commons or at the University of Texas Libraries.

| Sheet | First Edition | Third Edition | Commons | University of Texas |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Sheet A | 1959 | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet B | 1958 | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet C | 1959 (reprinted 1973) | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet D | 1959 (reprinted 1974) | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet E | 1958 (reprinted 1974) | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet F | 1958 (reprinted 1974) | | First edition | First edition |
| Sheet G | 1958 | 1973 | | First edition |
| Sheet H | 1958 | 1973 (reprinted 1974) | | First edition |
| Sheet K | | 1970 (reprinted 1974) | | Third edition |
| Sheet L | 1954 | 1966 (reprinted 1970 & 1973) | | Third edition |
| Sheet M | 1954 | 1967 (reprinted 1973) | | Third edition |
| Sheet N | 1954 | 1967 (reprinted 1971) | | Third edition |

### Others

Sortable table :

| K# | Date | Title | Cartographer | Description |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 1967 | Jamaica Road Map | Esso | |
| | 1972 | Jamaica Road Map | Texaco | |

## Town plans

### Kingston

**The 1:10,000 series**

Between the early 1950s and the early 1970s the UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys published several editions of a series of maps of Kingston at the scale of 1:50,000. The following table summarises the known publication dates. Online copies can be found at the University of Texas Libraries.

| Sheet | First Edition | Third Edition | University of Texas |
| - | - | - | - |
| Central sheet | 1962 | | First edition |
| Sheet 1 | 1965 | 1972 | First edition |
| Sheet 2 | 1965 | 1972 | First edition |
| Sheet 3 | 1963 | 1972 | First edition |
| Sheet 4 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition |
| Sheet 5 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition |
| Sheet 6 | 1964 | 1972 | First edition |

**Others**

Sortable table :

| Date | Title | Carto- grapher | Description |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1702 | A Plan of Kingston | Christian Lilly | Map which may have been the combined work of John Goffe and Christian Lilly to provide a plan for the newly founded city. |
| 1740-45 | Plan of Kingston | Michael Hay | Map dedicated to Jamaica's governor Edward Trelawny. Several possible dates are given for its publication. |
| 1764 | Plan de la Ville de Kingston | Jacques Nicolas Bellin | From the author's Le Petit Atlas Maritime, published in Paris, France in 1764. |
| 1891-06 | Kingston and environs | War Office | A lithograph published by Edward Stanford for the Intelligence Division of the War Office. It was based on earlier maps and Admiralty charts, updated with the observations of five army officers. The illustration shows an extract depicting Kingston Harbour. |
| 1897 | The City of Kingston | James H. Stark | From the author's Stark's Jamaica Guide. |

### Montego Bay

**Petrol company road maps**

* Esso, 1967, on reverse
* Texaco, 1972, on reverse

### Spanish Town

**Petrol company road maps**

* Esso, 1967, on reverse
* Texaco, 1972, on reverse

### Mandeville

**Petrol company road maps**

* Esso, 1967, on reverse
* Texaco, 1972, on reverse
