UCF Research Guides: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Locating Florida Maps

Locating Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Florida

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Florida
Call Number: UCF Main Library Microfilm - 3rd Floor -- G3931.G475S3 1983
16 microfilm reels (1884-1951)
Online version (1884-1923)
"Reproduced from original copies in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress." "Maps are arranged on each reel in the order they appear in Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress." Original maps published by Sanborn Map Co., New York.
Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress : Plans of North American Cities and Towns Produced by the Sanborn Map Company : A Checklist
Call Number: UCF Main Library U.S. Documents - 1st Floor -- LC 5.2:F 51
compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division ; introd. by Walter W. Ristow -- provides a brief description of Sanborn maps, and a checklist for all 50 states listing the city, county, and date of each edition. The entries for some maps include comments listing the names of neighboring communities also displayed on the maps.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida
comprise an online collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets dating from 1884 through 1923. Digitized maps are in the public domain and illustrate the development of more than 130 Florida cities.
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The dates vary by town, with the earliest for Florida towns from 1884. For example, Orlando maps are available for 1884, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1903, 1908, 1913, 1919, 1925, and 1925-1951. The maps after 1923 are not available online because of copyright restrictions
Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps (University of Florida Map & Imagery Library)
The University of Florida Map & Imagery Library in Gainesville has most of these maps for Florida towns in paper format, and provides a brief list of the available maps.
Orange County Regional History Center (Orlando)
has paper copies of the 1925 Sanborn maps for Orlando and Winter Park, updated through the 1950s
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps:
- Apopka: 1924
- Dunnellon: 1917
- Eustis: 1922
- Kissimmee: 1926
- Leesburg: 1924
- Orlando: 1883, 1887, 1892, 1903, 1908, 1913, 1919, 1925, 1956
- St. Cloud: 1924
- Sanford: 1922
- Tavares: 1920
- Winter Park: 1924, 1927, 1958