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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Extracted from Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress. A description from the Earth Sciences and Map Library at the University of California at Berkeley.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (G&M Reading Room, Library of Congress)

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by Sanborn which are housed in the collections of the Library of Congress. Includes links to existing digital images from the collection. Also includes detailed explanations and examples on map interpretation plus an index by state. An excellent "how to" guide to the maps. See the link to Sanborn Samplers for examples of scanned maps of famous places.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps | Penn State University Libraries

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1941 Collection Items - Digital Library of Georgia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Iowa

From the University of Iowa Libraries, Map Collection.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Colorado

From the University of Colorado Boulder

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina - Digital Collections

From the University of South Carolina Libraries.

Sanborn Maps

By Bonnie Barker, from the BYU FHL webinar series.

Sanborn Maps (Wikipedia)

Sanborn Maps | University of Nevada, Reno

Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps in Branner Library

List of holdings for California, Nevada, and British Columbia. Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources.

Texas State Library and Archives Commission - Fire Insurance Maps custom search

Trent University Archives- Coboconk, Ontario: Fire Insurance Plan

UFDC Home - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Florida

Holdings of the University of Florida Digital Collections.

University of South Carolina Libraries - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina

Digitized maps for 1884-1923.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collection

Using Fire Insurance Maps for Family History + Where to Find Them Online - Heart of the Family

Fire insurance maps are an amazing tool for researching the cities and towns where our ancestors lived. Find out what fire insurance maps are, how to use them, and where to find them online.