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Our Collection
The primary focus of the Map Collection is the Monterey Bay Region.
By agreement with other University of California campuses, UCSC
has responsibility for collecting cartographic materials of five
local counties: Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and
San Mateo counties.
The Map Room has over 160,000 items, including the region's largest
and most comprehensive collection of aerial
photographs of the five-county area. We have a local history
collection that includes historical maps such as the Andrew
Jackson Hatch, 1889 map of Santa Cruz county and slides of Sanborn
Fire Insurance maps. The Map Room is a federal depository library
and provides free public access to all materials received through
the Federal
Depository Library Program.
The collection also includes general world-wide topographic, geologic,
nautical, and aeronautical coverage. Most of the collection is contemporary
and includes atlases, sheet maps, maps in electronic format, GIS
data sets, more than 400 wall maps for
classroom use, and cartographic and geographic reference books and
gazetters.
NEW! Quick guides to pre-1900 maps of Santa Cruz: city maps and county maps
showing landowners.
A photocopier and a scanner are available for making copies of
contemporary material. In order to preserve our older material, we do not permit scanning or photocopying of original materials more than 50 years old.
Visit our Photographing
Old Maps page for information on how to make copies of older
and fragile material.
See the Map
Collection Information Note for a full description of the collection.
For a look at the Map Room, take our mini-tour.
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