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Abstract	Digitization was supported by an Ohio History Fund grant. Maps are from the collection at Kent State University Libraries map collection (McGilvery Hall, Room 410). The Sanborn Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials, number of floors, and building purpose (if available). Businesses, churches, and government structures are often identified as well as the business type (cotton mill, automobile repair, etc.). An individual homeowner/occupier is not identified. These maps are used by a wide range of researchers including local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments. The Library of Congress held three paper copies of the Sanborn maps for each state. In the early 1950’s, the Library of Congress distributed one set for each state to a state land grant university, and Kent State was chosen to house this important collection.
Format	Map
Date	1919
Place of Publication	New York
Extent	9
Keywords	Fire risk assessment Ohio Geneva Maps Real property Ohio Geneva Maps Geneva Ohio Maps Fire insurance maps Cadastral maps
Rights	Kent State University, which has made this item available, believes that it is in the Public Domain under U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code); it may be protected by the copyright laws of other countries. You are responsible for your use of this item. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Ohio County	Ashtabula
Scale	1:50
Permalink	https://oaks.kent.edu/sanborn/geneva-ashtabula-county-ohio-1919

Abstract

Digitization was supported by an Ohio History Fund grant. Maps are from the collection at Kent State University Libraries map collection (McGilvery Hall, Room 410).

The Sanborn Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials, number of floors, and building purpose (if available). Businesses, churches, and government structures are often identified as well as the business type (cotton mill, automobile repair, etc.). An individual homeowner/occupier is not identified.

These maps are used by a wide range of researchers including local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments.

The Library of Congress held three paper copies of the Sanborn maps for each state. In the early 1950’s, the Library of Congress distributed one set for each state to a state land grant university, and Kent State was chosen to house this important collection.

Format

Map

Date

1919

Place of Publication

New York

Extent

Keywords

Rights

Kent State University, which has made this item available, believes that it is in the Public Domain under U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code); it may be protected by the copyright laws of other countries. You are responsible for your use of this item.

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Ohio County

Ashtabula

Scale

1:50

Permalink

https://oaks.kent.edu/sanborn/geneva-ashtabula-county-ohio-1919

Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, 1919

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