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    

    Kansas- University of Kansas

    Kentucky- KY Digital 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

    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

    Cincinnati 1904-1930
    Chicago 1886 

    Milwaukee 1894 & 1910
    New York City 1850s – 1920s

    Philadelphia  1875, 1901
    Pittsburgh 1872-1940 

    Saint Louis, 1870-1898
    San Francisco 1899-1900 

    San Francisco 1905 

    Toronto 1884-1904

    Victoria, British Columbia 1885
 

 
    United States - Library of Congress    
    Mexico - Library of Congress     

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