Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont

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This collection contains large-scale maps of Burlington, Vermont produced to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The fire insurance maps provide a remarkably detailed record of the city’s development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The maps dating from 1885, 1894, 1900, 1906, 1912 and 1919 were produced by the Sanborn Company. The earliest set, from 1869, does not indicate a publisher, but it is very similar to other early Sanborn maps. The 1869 maps show the commercial, industrial, and residential area from the Lake Champlain waterfront east to Church and Shelburne Streets and from Pearl Street on the north to Howard Street on the south. Coverage gradually expands to include the growing downtown, the University of Vermont and the manufacturing area at Winooski Falls to the east, and new residential and commercial areas to the north and south. The colored 21 x 25 inch sheets show building footprints, construction methods and materials, size and number of floors, and uses. They also show streets, railroads, wharves and slips, property boundaries, street numbers, water systems and fire hydrants. Except for 1869, each map set includes an index sheet showing the mapped area and sheet numbers, a list of streets and addresses, a “specials index” of businesses and organizations, and a detailed key that lists the symbols used to indicate building features. Later Burlington insurance maps (1926 to 1978) are available in UVM Special Collections - http://library.uvm.edu/sc/. More information about Sanborn fire insurance maps is available here - http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/.

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Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1889
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1889
    • Description: The 1889 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. Queen City Park, located in the adjacent town of South Burlington, is also shown.
    • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
    Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1894
    Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1894
      • Date Created: 1894
      • Description: The 1894 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. Two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne, are also shown.
      • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
      Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1906
      Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1906
        • Date Created: 1906
        • Description: The 1906 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Publishing Company to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. There are also maps of two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne.
        • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
        Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1912
        Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1912
          • Date Created: 1912
          • Description: The 1912 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Publishing Company to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. There are also maps of two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne.
          • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
          Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1919
          Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1919
            • Date Created: 1919
            • Description: The 1919 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Publishing Company to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. Two residential areas are covered for the first time, one in the north end between Archibald and North Bend Streets, and a second in the south end in the vicinity of Shelburne Road south of Howard Street. There are also maps of two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne.
            • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
            Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1869
            Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1869
              • Date Created: 1869
              • Description: The 1869 fire insurance map sheets for Burlington, Vermont were produced to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. The six sheets show the commercial, industrial, and residential areas from the Lake Champlain waterfront east to Church and Shelburne Streets and from Pearl Street on the north to Howard Street on the south. Although no publisher is indicated, the 1869 Burlington maps are very similar to other early Sanborn Company maps.
              • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
              Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1885
              Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1885
                • Date Created: 1885
                • Description: The 1885 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. In addition to the city’s commercial, industrial and residential center, two sheets show the University of Vermont and other institutions on the hill in the eastern part of the city as well as the manufacturing area at the mills on the Winooski River.
                • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
                Miniature of Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1900
                Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1900
                  • Date Created: 1900
                  • Description: The 1900 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. There are also maps of two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne.
                  • Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont