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Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are detailed maps showing building footprints,
construction materials, width of streets, house addresses, and the
use of the building. The Map Room has Sanborn maps for cities in
Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties
from various years.
Sanborns on Colored Slides
The bulk of the Map Room's Sanborn collection is 2" x 2" color slides.
The slides can be copied in black and white ($.20 with a copy card). The hardbound editions may not be copied.
Select a county below to view coverage
by city and year.
Sanborn Maps on our Web Site are available for:
Ben Lomond Boulder Creek Felton in .jpg format
Use the slider bars to move around the image.
You may need to "slide down" to see the image.
The Mozilla Firefox browser seems to work best on PCs,
and Internet Explorer on a Mac, for viewing these.
The same slides are also available in .tif format, but the image may be too large to easily view on your screen. They are also slow to download because of the file size.
Books in Our Collection About Sanborn
Maps
Fire insurance maps : their history and applications / Diane
L. Oswald HG9771 .O85 1997
Union list of Sanborn fire insurance maps held by institutions
in the United States and Canada / by R. Philip Hoehn ; foreword
by Walter W. Ristow. Z6026.I7H63
Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress : plans of North
American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company :
a checklist / compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section,
Geography and Map Division ; introd. by Walter W. Ristow. Z6026.I7U54
1981M
A catalogue of Sanborn atlases at California State University,
Northridge / by Gary W. Rees & Mary Hoeber Z6028.R42
Other Resources
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Union List of Sanborn and other Fire Insurance Maps
- An online publication of the Western Association of Map Libraries.
- UC Berkeley
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map collection
- Including a brief history
of fire insurance maps and the Sanborn Company.
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UC Davis Sanborn Fire Insurance Map collection
- Stanford University Branner Library's Sanborn collection
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