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• Ancestry.com - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

  Article by Michael John Neill.

• Assessing the Risk: Insurance Cartography in Cecil County

  Maryland.

  • Catalog of Sanborn Maps in the Collection of the Historical Society

• Chadwyck-Healey - Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Site Maps, 1894 - 1954

  Microfiche for sale.

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Pre-Earthquake San Francisco 1905 Sanborn Insurance Atlas

  A rare 6 volume 1905 San Francisco Sanborn Insurance Atlas showing the city as it was just months before the great earthquake and fire of 1906 has been added to the map site in collaboration with the San Francisco Public Library which owns the atlas and keeps it in its San Francisco History Center at the main library branch.

• Fire Insurance Maps of Chicago

• Fire Insurance Maps of Cities & Towns

  From the State Historical Society of Iowa.

• Fire Insurance Maps, Their History and Applications

  A book by Diane Oswald. Good information about this under-utilized source.

• Fire Insurance Plans held by the University of Waterloo Library

  Ontario.

• Fire Insurance Plans in York Libraries

  Canadian fire insurance plans housed in the libraries at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• Florida Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

  Holdings of the University of Florida.

• Free Genealogy Tools: Free Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

  Sanborn insurance maps show amazingly detailed views of cities and towns across the US, covering much of 19th and early 20th century America. Explore these family history tools at free sites where you can download Sanborn maps.

• Geostat: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

  At the University of Virginia Library.

  • 1907 Sanborn Maps of Charlottesville

  • Charlottesville, Virginia 1920

  • History of Sanborn Maps

• Sanborn and Other Fire Insurance Maps

  From the University of California, Berkeley, Earth Sciences & Map Library's Home Page.

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

  Beyond the Index - Michael John Neill. This article discusses what Sanborn fire insurance maps are and how to locate them.

• 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 Insurance Maps

  Digitized Sanborn Maps from 1886, 1891, 1896, 1907 & 1912 for Fredericksburg, Virginia.

• Sanborn Maps in Special Collections

  At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries.

• Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps

  For Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922. Consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 Georgia municipalities. Fire insurance maps document the changing face of towns and cities, providing highly detailed information for each neighborhood and block.

• 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.