Hi Everyone, Thought this might be of interest and wanted to share it with you. A Visual Expression of History. Produced for over a century, more than 660,000 Sanborn Maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn Maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers. Also, if your public library or university library has subscribed, you may be able to access these maps online. You can find out more about this service by visiting Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 (http://sanborn.umi.com/). Works well with Census Enumeration Maps. What the federal government has called maps, is actually a misnomer. When we hear the word maps, we think graphical images of the area of a town, county or state. In this case the research aid is actually descriptions of the enumeration districts. The key to working with any map and the enumeration district descriptions is to get a map of the city that is as close to the time period as possible. I hope this information helps. If you have problems or further questions please let me know. :-) Thanks, Mike ************************* Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, breathing, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian. "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." --- Phillip Brooks ~God Bless America~ *************************