Map Librarian
Lucinda M. Hall
Contact:
Evans Map Room, Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
25 N Main ST
Hanover, NH 03755
Dartmouth College
25 N Main ST
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-0962
Website Skype Contact: d1128r8@kiewit.dartmouth.edu
Map collections
This box has the records for New Hampshire and Vermont. For other states, see the box above.
- Sanborn fire insurance maps. New Hampshire byCall Number: Electronic resourceDigital version of the Sanborn maps for New Hampshire.
- Sanborn fire insurance maps. Vermont, 1867-1950 byCall Number: Library Depository #4499rReel 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.)
Map collections
The digital Sanborn collections that various libraries have put online only cover maps published before 1923. Any map published 1923 or after is still in copyright and they are unable to put a digital version online.
- Alabama - historical fire insurance maps of Alabama byCall Number: Online resourceYou need a specific plug-in to view these Sanborns.
- Alaska - historical fire insurance maps of Alaska byCall Number: Online resourceOnline maps available through the Library of Congress.
- District of Columbia - historical fire insurance maps of the District of Columbia byCall Number: Online resourceMaps available through the Library of Congress.
- Florida - historical fire insurance maps of Florida byCall Number: Electronic resourceThis is a collection of more than 3,000 map sheets for the state of Florida. The maps were designed to help fire insurance agents determine the degree of damage to a property and show accurate information to determine risks and establish premiums. They show the size (including color-coding), shape and construction of buildings (brick, adobe, frame, etc), dwellings (including hotels and churches), and other structures such as bridges, docks and barns.
- Georgia - historical fire insurance maps for Georgia towns and cities, 1884-1941 byCall Number: Online resourceFire insurance maps of Georgia cities and towns dating from 1884 to 1941.
- Missouri - historical fire insurance maps of Missouri cities byCall Number: Online resourcesDocumenting the layout of 390 Missouri cities from 1883 to 1951, the 1283 maps in the collection are an invaluable research tool for urban historians, architectural historians, environmentalists, genealogists and preservationists. ...
- North Carolina - historical fire insurance maps of North Carolina byCall Number: Online resourceUNC-Chapel Hill hold the most comprehensive collection of North Carolina Sanborn maps. The dates range from the 1880's through 1922 online. The physical collection goes to the 1950's.
- Pennsylvania - historical fire insurance maps of Pennsylvania byCall Number: Online resourceThe University Libraries' Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information has a near complete collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for the state of Pennsylvania. The digital collection will continue to grow as maps come out of copyright.
- South Carolina - historical fire insurance maps of South Carolina byCall Number: Online resourceOriginally conceived in the late 18th Century, fire insurance maps provided structural and urban environmental information necessary for insurance underwriters. ...
- Utah - historical fire insurance maps of Utah byCall Number: Online resourceThis collection contains large-scale, detailed maps from 1867 into the early 20th century depicting the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of many Utah cities. ...
- Wisconsin - historical fire insurance maps of Wisconsin byCall Number: Online resourceThe Society's Archives has original Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for 325 Wisconsin communities. ...
Sanborn collection covering the entire United States mapped
- United States - Sanborn Maps from the Library of Congress byCall Number: Online resourceThe Sanborn maps are arranged by state, then city and release data. Currently there are over 25,000 sheets from over 3000 city sets online in the following states: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, OH, OK, PA, SD, TX, VA, VT, WY and Canada, Mexico, Cuba sugar warehouses, and U.S. whiskey warehouses. This digital collection is courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Other Fire insurance mapping companies
- Dakin Fire Insurance MapsThe production of fire insurance plans of North American cities was dominated by two companies, the Sanborn Map Company of New York and the Charles E. Goad Company of London. The stories of other publishers, for the most part, have not been adequately told. The West, includ[ing] Hawaii, had a number of individuals and institutions which produced insurance plans. One of the more successful of them was the Dakin Publishing Company of San Francisco. Dakin was in existence from about 1885 until the early 1960's, and actively produced insurance maps from its beginning until the second decade of the 20th Century.
Fire Insurance Maps for Vermont
- Fire Insurance Maps of VermontThis collection contains large-scale maps of Vermont villages and cities produced to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The collection currently includes maps of communities in Chittenden and Franklin Counties that were published from 1869 to 1922. Maps from other Vermont communities will be added in the future. ...
Selected book titles for fire insurance mapping
Sanborn fire insurance maps online checklist by Call Number: Online resourceThe 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 byCall Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room Z 6026 .I7 H63 v. 1 - 2This 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 byCall Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room GA 471 .O33 no.6ISBN: 9780969506270This catalogue lists all the Canadian towns and cities mapped and in whose collections the maps reside throughout the Canadian provinces.
Fire insurance maps: their history and applications by Call Number: Baker-Berry Evans Map Room HG 9771 .O89 1997ISBN: 9780965969802A short history of fire insurance maps in the United States.
Fire insurance maps for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Fire insurance maps and plans from The British LibraryGoad fire insurance plans are unique primary source materials capturing what is, in many cases, otherwise undocumented information about buildings, land use and urban design. This collection of Goad plans of the British Isles are the very first editions of this mapping, representing all of the major centres of population at the turn of the twentieth century; publication dates range from 1886 to 1930.
- Curator's note for Goad's Fire Insurance Maps... While not the first to produce maps to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks, the Chas E Goad Co was the largest and most prolific such endeavor in Britain. The large-scale plans of urban areas – which ranged in size from eight sheets for Dover and over 500 for London – includes footprints and addresses for each building, with its use (commercial, residential, educational etc.) and the height of the building. ...
Internet resource(s)
- Fire Insurance Map: American Treasures of the Library of Congress
The O.K. Corral, where the notorious gunfight between the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday versus the Clanton gang took place October 26, 1881, is shown (between 3rd and 4th Streets, bounded by Fremont on the north and Allen on the south) in this 1886 fire insurance map of Tombstone, Arizona. ... - Sanborn Maps from Wikipedia
Sanborn Maps was a creator and publisher of maps of US cities and towns. The Sanborn Maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The maps include detailed information about buildings in approximately 12,000 US towns and cities.