Collection Overview
Title: North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, 1884-1960
ID: OGLMC/1348
Creator: Sanborn Map Company (1867-)
Extent: 56.0 Folders
Date Acquired: 00/00/1960
Languages: English [eng]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection contains Sanborn fire insurance maps for cities and towns in the state of North Dakota, spanning the years 1884 through 1960. The maps depict the arrangement of blocks and buildings for the given cities and towns. They provide locations of lot lines and detailed information on structures, including construction material, height and purpose (e.g. residence or business). If a building houses a business, the name of the business or the service that it provides are usually indicated.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Method:
The North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection was donated by the Library of Congress in June 1960.
Preferred Citation:
(Name and Date of Map). North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection. OGLMC 1348. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.
Processing Information:
Finding aid added to Archon in June 2019.
Box and Folder Listing
- Oversize Folder 1: Bismarck
- Item 1: 1884 - 4 pages
- Item 2: 1888 - 8 pages (but first page is missing)
- Item 3: 1899 - 9 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 9 pages
- Oversize Folder 2: Bismarck
- Item 1: 1908 - 11 pages
- Item 2: 1912 - 14 pages
- Item 3: 1919 - 15 pages
- Oversize Folder 3: Bottineau
- Item 1: 1908 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 4: Cando
- Item 1: 1908 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 5: Carrington
- Item 1: 1884 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1893 - 1 page
- Item 3: 1898 - 1 page
- Item 4: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 5: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 6: 1909 - 4 pages
- Item 7: 1914 - 5 pages
- Oversize Folder 6: Cashel
- Item 1: 1919 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 7: Casselton
- Item 1: 1893 - 4 pages
- Item 2: 1898 - 4 pages
- Item 3: 1904 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1910 - 4 pages
- Item 5: 1917 - 4 pages
- Oversize Folder 8: Cavalier
- Item 1: 1907 - 2 sheets
- Item 2: 1914 - 3 sheets
- Oversize Folder 9: Cooperstown
- Item 1: 1893 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1898 - 2 pages
- Item 3: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 4: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 5: 1914 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 10: Dazey
- Item 1: 1908 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1918 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 11: Devils Lake
- Item 1: 1886 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1891 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1898 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1908 - 7 pages
- Oversize Folder 12: Devils Lake
- Item 1: 1914 - 11 pages
- Item 2: 1924 - 14 pages
- Oversize Folder 13: Dickinson
- Item 1: 1898 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1904 - 4 pages
- Item 3: 1908 - 7 pages
- Item 4: 1913 - 14 pages
- Oversize Folder 14: Fargo
- Item 1: 1884 - 10 pages
- Item 2: 1888 - 14 pages
- Item 3: 1892 - 17 pages
- Oversize Folder 15: Fargo
- Item 1: 1896 - 20 pages
- Item 2: 1901 - 22 pages
- Item 3: 1905 - 23 pages
- Oversize Folder 16: Fargo
- Item 1: 1910 - 32 pages
- Item 2: 1916 - 28 pages
- Item 3: 1922 - 37 pages
- Oversize Folder 17: Fessenden
- Item 1: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 3: 1918 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 18: Grafton
- Item 1: 1884 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1891 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1897 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1907 - 6 pages
- Item 6: 1914 - 8 pages
- Item 7: 1918 - 10 pages
- Oversize Folder 19: Grand Forks
- Item 1: 1884 - 9 pages
- Item 2: 1888 - 12 pages
- Item 3: 1892 - 16 pages
- Item 4: 1897 - 17 pages
- Item 5: 1901 - 17 pages
- Item 6: 1906 - 21 pages
- Item 7: 1912 - 22 sheets
- Item 8: 1916 - 22 pages
- Volume 1: Grand Forks, 1927 (with overlays from 1939, 1943)
- Brown cover
- Volume 2: Grand Forks, 1927 (with overlays from 1951, 1957, 1960)
- Green cover
- Oversize Folder 20: Hankinson
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1914 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 21: Harvey
- Item 1: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1907 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1913 - 3 pages
- Item 4: 1939 - 5 pages
- Oversize Folder 22: Hillsboro
- Item 1: 1897 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1905 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1910 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 23: Jamestown
- Item 1: 1884 - 4 pages
- Item 2: 1886 - 5 pages
- Item 3: 1891 - 6 pages
- Item 4: 1898 - 7 pages
- Item 5: 1904 - 8 pages
- Oversize Folder 24: Jamestown
- Item 1: 1907 - 10 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 17 pages
- Item 3: 1919 - 21 pages
- Oversize Folder 25: Lakota
- Item 1: 1898 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 3: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 4: 1914 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 26: LaMoure
- Item 1: 1893 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1898 - 2 pages (but first page is missing)
- Item 3: 1905 - 2 pages
- Item 4: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 5: 1914 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 27: Langdon
- Item 1: 1907 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1914 - 4 pages
- Item 3: 1918 - 5 pages
- Oversize Folder 28: Larimore
- Item 1: 1904 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 29: Leeds
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1918 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 30: Lidgerwood
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1914 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 31: Lisbon
- Item 1: 1893 - 5 pages
- Item 2: 1898 - 5 pages
- Item 3: 1905 - 5 pages
- Item 4: 1908 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1914 - 7 pages
- Oversize Folder 32: Mandan
- Item 1: 1884 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1888 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1892 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1898 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1904 - 6 pages
- Item 6: 1907 - 8 pages
- Oversize Folder 33: Mandan
- Item 1: 1913 - 13 pages
- Item 2: 1919 - 14 pages
- Oversize Folder 34: Mayville
- Item 1: 1893 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1898 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1904 - 3 pages
- Item 4: 1914 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 35: McHenry
- Item 1: 1908 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 36: Minnewaukan
- Item 1: 1904 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1913 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 37: Minot
- Item 1: 1904 - 4 pages
- Item 2: 1907 - 6 pages
- Item 3: 1913 - 15 pages
- Item 4: 1918 - 20 pages
- Oversize Folder 38: Minto
- Item 1: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1914 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 39: Neche
- Item 1: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1918 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 40: New Rockford
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1912 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 41: New Salem
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 4 pages
- Oversize Folder 42: Oakes
- Item 1: 1908 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1914 - 4 pages
- Oversize Folder 43: Park River
- Item 1: 1893 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1898 - 2 pages
- Item 3: 1904 - 3 pages
- Item 4: 1916 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 44: Pembina
- Item 1: 1884 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1892 - 2 pages
- Item 3: 1897 - 2 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 5: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 6: 1910 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 45: Portland
- Item 1: 1886 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1892 - 1 page
- Item 3: 1898 - 2 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 2 pages
- Item 5: 1914 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 46: Rugby
- Item 1: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 47: Sanborn
- Item 1: 1893 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1898 - 1 page
- Item 3: 1901 - 1 page
- Item 4: 1910 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 48: Sheldon
- Item 1: 1886 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1904 - 1 page
- Item 3: 1908 - 1 page
- Oversize Folder 49: St. Thomas
- Item 1: 1907 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 50: Valley City
- Item 1: 1884 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1891 - 3 pages
- Item 3: 1898 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1904 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1908 - 7 pages
- Item 6: 1913 - 7 pages
- Item 7: 1919 - 13 pages
- Oversize Folder 51: Wahpeton
- Item 1: 1884 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1886 - 4 pages
- Item 3: 1891 - 4 pages
- Item 4: 1898 - 5 pages
- Item 5: 1904 - 6 pages
- Item 6: 1910 - 8 pages
- Item 7: 1916 - 8 pages
- Oversize Folder 52: Walhalla
- Item 1: 1907 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1918 - 3 pages
- Oversize Folder 53: Washburn
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 54: Williston
- Item 1: 1907 - 3 pages
- Item 2: 1913 - 7 pages
- Item 3: 1916 - 9 pages
- Oversize Folder 55: Wilton
- Item 1: 1908 - 2 pages
- Item 2: 1919 - 2 pages
- Oversize Folder 56: Wyndmere
- Item 1: 1908 - 1 page
- Item 2: 1914 - 1 page