Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Youngstown and Vicinity (now available online through OhioLINK)

Since the 1870's, the Sanborn Company has mapped cities and industrial areas across the United States. Maps show each building within a city's "built-up area," and symbols indicate use (dwelling, store, etc.), construction materials and other data.

New maps were produced every few years, depending on how fast a city was growing.  Between production of new maps, the company would send out small "update sheets" that could be pasted over the existing map to show changes.  To tell if a map has been pasted up, consult the key-map page at the front of the volume.  It includes a "Corrections" ledger, which the map owner would sign and date each time revision sheets were pasted in.

Maag Library has Sanborn Maps on microfilm and in the Special Collections Room.  The Mahoning Valley Historical Society located in the Arms Museum, Wick Avenue, also has some of the maps.  Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1867-1970 are now available online through OhioLINK Digital Media Center (limited to registered OhioLINK users).

Note:  The information presented here was originally compiled in 1997 by Tom Hanchette, former faculty member in YSU's Historic Preservation Program.
 

Maag Microforms Center Microfilm #77
Reel No.	Dates	City/areas covered
55	1884 map (sheets 1-14)  1889 map (sheets 1-22)  1896 map (sheets 1-42)  Note: film box indicates a 1906 map.  This seems to be a misreading of the date that the 1896 volume was acquired by the Library of Congress.	Youngstown
56	1907 map	Youngstown  Volume 1 west of Wick Avenue/Market St.  (sheets 1-505)  Volume 2 east of Wick Avenue/Market St.  (sheets 151-232)
56	1928 map (as originally printed, no paste-ups	Youngstown  Vol. 1 center city (sheets 1-505)  Vol. 2 southwest side (sheets 201-299F)  Vol. 3 southeast side (sheets 301-385)  Vol. 4 north side (sheets 401-488)  Vol.5 Struthers/Campbell (sheets 501-38, 601-46, 701-04)
57	1928 map, pasted up to 1950	Youngstown  Vol. 1 center city (sheets 1-105)  Vol. 2 southwest side (sheets 201-299F)  Vol. 3 southeast side (sheets 301-389)  Vol. 4 north side (sheets 401-488)  Vol.5 Struthers/Campbell (sheets 501-40, 601-46, 701-04)
31	1907, 1915, 1925, 1948	Girard
42a	1922, 1928, 1941	Newton Falls
42b	1898, 1902, 1909, 1915, 1924, 1948	Niles
53	1884, 1889, 1893, 1915, 1922, 1950	Warren

 
 

Maag Library Special Collections Room (5th floor) Double Oversize G 1399 .Y8S3 1956  (Inquire in Special Collections - 5th Floor)
Volume No.	Date	City
1	1928 map pasted up (color original)  pasted up to 1967	Youngstown
2	1928 map  pasted up to 1930	Youngstown
3	1928 map   pasted up to 1930	Youngstown
4	1928 map  pasted up to 1930	Youngstown
5	1928 map  pasted up to 1930	Youngstown

 

Arms Family Museum of Local History  648 Wick Avenue Youngstown, OH  44502 330-743-2589
Date	Area
1884	Youngstown, including Girard, Hazelton, Lowellville (black & white photocopy)
1889	Youngstown, including Brier Hill, Girard, Lowellville, Struthers (black & white photocopy)
1896	Youngstown, including Girard, Lowellville, Struthers (b & w photocopy)
1907	Youngstown, pasted up to 1927 (color original)
1928	Youngstown, pasted up to 1957 (color original)
1928	Canfield (black & white copy)
1928	Lowellville (color original) see also 1884, 1889, and 1896 Youngstown maps
1992	Youngstown (black & white original)

For further information on Sanborn Maps see:

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

Maps located in Government Documents, Lower Level

The federal government publishes a large number of maps, ranging from an 8 1/2" X 11" notebook size to large wall maps.  These maps are cataloged and can be found by searching MaagNet.  

Maps are produced by many different agencies but the majority of the maps in Maag's collection are issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  The subject matter ranges from individual countries to political maps of the world.

To browse for maps of countries or areas such as Eastern Europe or Latin America,  go to the MAP BOXES in the Documents area of the Lower Level.  These maps range in size from pamphlets to wall maps and are arranged in alphabetical order by area.  There is also a set of three-ring notebooks containing smaller maps of individual countries.   The MAP BOXES and the map notebooks have a classification number of PREX 3.10/4:

The state of Ohio also publishes mineral resource maps, soil survey maps, park maps, and much more.  For assistance in finding maps in Government Documents, ask at the Reference Desk on the main floor or contact the documents librarian at 330-941-3126.

Topographic Quadrangle Maps of Ohio and Pennsylvania

The Government Documents department of Maag Library selects  7.5-minute and 15-minute detailed topographic maps for quadrangles in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.  These maps are located in the Geography Department map collection, Phelps Building.

Finding Aids for Topographic Maps

Govt Docs Pamphlet File ONR 84.2:T 675/995  Ohio Topographic Maps.  Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources, 1996
Govt Docs I 19.41/6-3:39082 Ohio: index to topographic and other map coverage.  U.S. Geological Survey. 1993
Govt Docs I 19.41/6-3:40076 Pennsylvania: index to topographic and other map coverage.  U.S. Geological Survey. 1993

Ref. Atlas G 4080 .U5 Five northeastern Ohio Counties.  U.S. Geological Survey. 1974.
        Topographic maps of Ashtabula, Columbiana, Geauga, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties (with portions
        of Lake and Portage Counties)

• Maps of the World  (collection of links from the University of Texas)
• National Atlas of the United States (U.S. Geological Survey)