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Sanborn held a monopoly over fire insurance maps for the majority of the 20th century, but the business declined as US insurance companies stopped using maps for underwriting in the 1960s. 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 ...
File:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Centralia, Lewis County, Washington, 1909, Plate 0011.jpg
English: Page 5 of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map showing East Dedham, October 1885. Date: October 1885: Source:
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.
They went first to a German community near St. Louis. They then moved to Westport, MO, just south of present-day Kansas City. From there they came down to Sager Creek. Simon Sager was the family patriarch and settled near Sager Creek, which was also known as Spring Creek according to Sanborn Fire Maps as late as 1897. The community is known as ...
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 ...
File:Page 5 of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Showing Dedham, MA, in September 1897.pdf. Add languages. ... Sanborn Fire Insurance Company: Licensing.
File:Detail from map 179 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Washington, DC. 1903-1916.png. Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages. File; Talk;