Map Div.'s "Best of the Web" : Fire Insurance Maps

Fire insurance maps, more commonly known as “Sanborn maps” or simply “Sanborns,” are sheet maps or atlas maps that were designed to describe the built environment of a city.  Unlike street maps the makers of fire insurance maps go to great lengths to describe buildings, land use and transportation infrastructure.  

    States    

    Alabama- University of Alabama
    Alaska- Library of Congress
    Colorado- University of Colorado Boulder
    Connecticut- Yale University
    Florida- University of Florida Digital Collections
    Georgia- Digital Library Georgia
    Indiana- Indiana University Bloomington
    Kentucky- KY Virtual Library
    Missouri- University of Missouri Digital Library
    Nevada- Mary B. Ansari Map Library University of Nevada, Reno
    New Hampshire- Dartmouth University
    New Jersey- Princeton University
    New York- NYPL
    North Carolina- University of North Carolina
    Pennsylvania- Penn State
    South Carolina- University of South Carolina
    Texas- University of Texas at Austin
    Utah – University of Utah
    
  

    Cities    

    Boston 1875, 1898, 1928
    Boston 1902
    Charlottesville 1907 & 1920
    Chicago 1886
    New York City 1850s – 1920s
    Pittsburgh 1872-1940
    San Francisco 1899-1900

    Toronto 1884-1904
    Victoria, British Columbia 1885
 

 
    United States - Library of Congress    
    Mexico - Library of Congress     

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