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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.
The maps show widths and names of streets, sewer systems, property boundaries, and house and block numbers. [7] The first three editions focused on downtown Savannah, including its then 24 squares; the fourth focused on Savannah Beach and Tybee Island. The maps have been digitized by the Digital Library of Georgia. [8]
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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.
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Charles City County, Virginia from 1895 state map. This is a list of common atlas and gazetteer abbreviations. These abbreviations are not always used consistently between publications; some terms have fallen out of use over time. Older gazetteers and atlases often neglect to define abbreviations and underlying terms. Gazetteer and map ...
Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words. Those derived from only two names are usually considered portmanteaus and can be found in the List of geographic portmanteaus ...