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The last Sanborn fire maps were published on microfilm in 1977, but old Sanborn maps remain useful for historical research into urban geography. The license for the maps was acquired by land data company Environmental Data Resources (EDR), and EDR was acquired in 2019 by real estate services company LightBox.
Daniel Alfred Sanborn (April 5, 1827 in Somerville, Massachusetts – April 11, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York) was a surveyor who founded the Sanborn Map Company, a well-known provider of fire insurance maps. Before starting his company he produced insurance maps for Boston and several cities in Tennessee for the Aetna Insurance Company.
The maps have been digitized by the Digital Library of Georgia. [8] In 2021, five volumes of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Savannah , spanning 1916 through 1973, were donated by the Chatham County–Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission Historic Preservation Department to the Municipal Archives to ensure their preservation and continued ...
Sanborn maps, maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries, published by The Sanborn Map Company Daniel Alfred Sanborn , surveyor and founder of Sanborn Map Company Grupo Sanborns , a large restaurant chain in Mexico, owned by business magnate Carlos Slim Helú
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1891 Sanborn map of Heinlenville and what would later become Japantown. In 1887, ten days after the Market Street Chinatown was destroyed by arson, John Heinlen began planning a new home for the city's Chinese residents on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) pasture he owned near the affluent Hensley neighborhood. [8]
Historical maps were based on Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the historical time period. A contemporary journal, American Cultural Resources Association Newsletter (February 2004) calls this a "real-space museum" and explained that walking the actual current streets with this work allowed readers to experience the past in innovative ways.
He migrated to America in 1836, where he worked in New York City before traveling to Baltimore, Maryland, [3] and then to Galveston. In 1850 Swenson moved to Austin and established a mercantile business with his uncle Swante Palm. While running the business, Swenson continued to buy Texas Railroad Certificates and to acquire land.