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  5. Fire insurance maps

Maps & Atlases

This subject guide looks at finding different maps and atlases throughout our collections. This is not an exhaustive list, but the guide does list various examples of resources within each section.
  • Introduction
  • Understanding maps
  • World atlases
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  • Finding maps
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  • Find maps online This link opens in a new window
  • Find outline maps
  • Fire insurance maps
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Sanborn map collections held at Dartmouth

This box has the records for New Hampshire and Vermont. For other states, click here.

  • Sanborn fire insurance maps. New Hampshire by Sanborn Map Company
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Digital version of the Sanborn maps for New Hampshire.
  • Sanborn fire insurance maps. Vermont, 1867-1950 by Sanborn Map Company
    Call Number: Library Depository #4499r
    Reel 1. Bethel. Bradford. (2 pts.) -- Reel 2. Chester. Fairlee. Hartland. (3 pts.) -- Reel 3. Ludlow -- Reel 4. Randolph. Rochester (2 pts.) -- Reel 5. South Royalton. Springfield. Wells River. West Randolph. White River Junction. Windsor. Woodstock (7 pts.)

History of Sanborn maps

  • Default blue book coverFire insurance maps: their history and applications by Diane L. Oswald
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room HG 9771 .O89 1997
    ISBN: 9780965969802
    A short history of fire insurance maps in the United States.

Carto-bibliographies for Sanborn maps

  • Cover artSanborn fire insurance maps online checklist by Geography & Map Reading Room, Library of Congress
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    Call Number: Online resource
    The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist is a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions.
    Print copy in the Evans Map Room.
  • Union list of Sanborn fire insurance maps held by institutions in the United States and Canada by R. Philip Hoehn
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room Z 6026 .I7 H63 v. 1 - 2
    This 2 volume union list contains the names of every city and town which the Sanborn Company mapped and in whose collections the maps reside.
  • Catalogue of Canadian fire insurance plans, 1875-1975 by Lorraine Dubreuil, Cheryl A. Woods.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room GA 471 .O33 no.6
    ISBN: 9780969506270
    This catalogue lists all the Canadian towns and cities mapped and in whose collections the maps reside throughout the Canadian provinces.
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  • Last Updated: Sep 20, 2024 4:16 PM
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