{"id":1790210,"date":"2021-02-23T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790210"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:43:50","slug":"fire-insurance-maps-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/fire-insurance-maps-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Insurance Maps Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State University Libraries\u2019 collection of Pennsylvania Sanborn fire insurance maps<\/a> dates to 1925, which means that as of this year they\u2019re in the public domain\u2014and freely available to use<\/a>. Meanwhile, Maps Mania has a roundup<\/a> of other fire insurance maps resources. The Library of Congress has a collection of 50,000 Sanborn atlases, 35,000 of which are available online (collections<\/a>, navigator<\/a>). In the United Kingdom, fire insurance maps were produced by Charles E. Goad Ltd.; Goad maps are available via the British Library<\/a> and the National Library of Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fire insurance maps are an invaluable resource for historical researchers: they\u2019re extremely detailed snapshots of the built environment of virtually every city and town, and there are usually several such snapshots (I\u2019ve seen at least three for my little village, for example), so you can chart a town\u2019s growth over time at a level of detail an OS<\/abbr>, quad or topo map can\u2019t match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penn State University Libraries\u2019 collection of Pennsylvania Sanborn fire insurance maps dates to 1925, which means that as of this year they\u2019re in the public domain\u2014and freely available to use. Meanwhile, Maps Mania has a… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54,429,1502,48,428],"class_list":["post-1790210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-cities","tag-fire-insurance","tag-goad","tag-libraries","tag-sanborn","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1835288,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/12\/the-art-and-typography-of-sanborn-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790210,"position":0},"title":"The Art and Typography of Sanborn Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 December 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"There are plenty of online resources about Sanborn maps (and other fire insurance maps); Brandon Silverman has built a website focusing on the art and typography found on Sanborn maps\u2019 cover and title pages, with literally thousands of examples. 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