While many maps featuring Pictou County exist, often very little of them focus on the community level. Therefore, we started publishing a growing collection of maps featuring communities located in Pictou County.
These maps combine topographic layers, hydrography, elevation detail, and community information into clear, community-focused cartography designed to help people visualize local geography and assets quickly and confidently.
Most are provided as both curated digital maps and downloadable images and are great for practical planning, education, and general use. When combined with other historic maps, topographic data, and other modern cartographic information from the digital atlas, one can start to better appreciate settlement patterns, historic features, transportation routes, and natural assets for towns and rural communities across Pictou County.
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Aerial Photography | Pictou County Community Maps | Geospatial Data | Pictou County Historic Maps | Pictou County Online Maps | Topographic Maps | Other maps
Maps are available as curated interactive pages and as downloadable images for printing and sharing. Community maps are added regularly. Current maps available are listed below.
If your community is not listed, contact us to check whether a map exists but has not yet been published or to request a new map.
Pictou County Community Maps combine topographic layers, hydrography, elevation detail, and community information into clear, community-focused cartography designed to help people visualize local geography and assets quickly and confidently. Most are provided as both curated digital maps and downloadable images and are great for practical planning, education, and general use. Community maps are added regularly, check to see if your community map is available.
Indian Lake is a quiet forest‑lined rural Woodland Area characterized by forests and natural vegetation located south of Marshy Hope. The region is lightly settled with scattered homes, camps, and properties, road‑accessible, and shaped by the long history of forestry, homesteading, and inland travel routes that define much of central Pictou County. Find out how to download or browse this map of Indian Lake online …
The rural coastal community of Kings Head is located between Little Harbour and Melmerby Beach along the Northumberland Strait. The nearby headland was named Kings Head as early as 1781 and from this geographic feature, the community got its name. This Kings Head Map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out more about this map, including how to download a free copy.
The rural coastal community of Kings Head is located between Little Harbour and Melmerby Beach along the Northumberland Strait. The nearby headland was named Kings Head as early as 1781 and from this geographic feature, the community got its name. This Kings Head Map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out more about this map, including how to download a free copy.
Eureka is a rural community located west of the forks of the East River just north of Hopewell, it was once a busy industrial area. The area itself however was a wilderness until 1882 when the Eureka Milling Company factory was erected. The location was selected along the West Branch of the East River to allow the water to provide power and pleasantly situated in a hollow, sheltered from the stormy blasts of winter and delightfully cool in the hottest days of summer. The settlement was steadily growing in 1890.
This Eureka Map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out how to download or a print a copy of this map.
Hopewell is a rural community located along the West Branch of the East River. It was originally named Milltown because of the grist mills operating in the area (by Donald Gray and Simon Fraser between 1810 and 1815, and by John Duff between 1820 and 1825).
This map of Hopewell Map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out how to download or a print a copy of this map.
Little Harbour is a rural coastal community located along the Northumberland Strait on the south side of Little Harbour. This Little Harbour Map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out how to download or a print a copy of this map.
Anderson Mountain is one of the smallest communities in Pictou County, and located south of Little Harbour. This Anderson Mountain map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Find out how to download or a print a copy of this map.