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North Dakota Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, 1884-1960
The Sanborn Map Company began as the D.A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau; D. A. Sanborn, a surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, founded the company in approximately 1867. (No official record of the first Sanborn map exists, but the earliest surviving one, housed in the Library of Congress, is dated 1867. It’s a fire insurance map of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.) The company was probably founded in New York City, as a New York address appears on the earliest surviving map. In 1876, it incorporated under the name Sanborn Map and Publishing Company. Sanborn died in 1883, although the corporation continued. His company took over Perris and Browne, another map company, in 1899 and became Sanborn Perris Map Company, Limited. By this time, most other insurance map publishers had either gone out of business or changed specializations, making Sanborn Perris the industry leader. In 1902, the firm again changed its name to Sanborn Map Company and has held this name to the present day.
Source: Ristow, Walter W. “U.S. Fire Insurance Maps, 1852-1968.” Surveying and Mapping, v. 30, March 1970.
Oversize Folder 1: Bismarck
Oversize Folder 2: Bismarck
Oversize Folder 3: Bottineau
Oversize Folder 4: Cando
Oversize Folder 5: Carrington
Oversize Folder 6: Cashel
Oversize Folder 7: Casselton
Oversize Folder 8: Cavalier
Oversize Folder 9: Cooperstown
Oversize Folder 10: Dazey
Oversize Folder 11: Devils Lake
Oversize Folder 12: Devils Lake
Oversize Folder 13: Dickinson
Oversize Folder 14: Fargo
Oversize Folder 15: Fargo
Oversize Folder 16: Fargo
Oversize Folder 17: Fessenden
Oversize Folder 18: Grafton
Oversize Folder 19: Grand Forks
Volume 1: Grand Forks, 1927 (with overlays from 1939, 1943)
Volume 2: Grand Forks, 1927 (with overlays from 1951, 1957, 1960)
Oversize Folder 20: Hankinson
Oversize Folder 21: Harvey
Oversize Folder 22: Hillsboro
Oversize Folder 23: Jamestown
Oversize Folder 24: Jamestown
Oversize Folder 25: Lakota
Oversize Folder 26: LaMoure
Oversize Folder 27: Langdon
Oversize Folder 28: Larimore
Oversize Folder 29: Leeds
Oversize Folder 30: Lidgerwood
Oversize Folder 31: Lisbon
Oversize Folder 32: Mandan
Oversize Folder 33: Mandan
Oversize Folder 34: Mayville
Oversize Folder 35: McHenry
Oversize Folder 36: Minnewaukan
Oversize Folder 37: Minot
Oversize Folder 38: Minto
Oversize Folder 39: Neche
Oversize Folder 40: New Rockford
Oversize Folder 41: New Salem
Oversize Folder 42: Oakes
Oversize Folder 43: Park River
Oversize Folder 44: Pembina
Oversize Folder 45: Portland
Oversize Folder 46: Rugby
Oversize Folder 47: Sanborn
Oversize Folder 48: Sheldon
Oversize Folder 49: St. Thomas
Oversize Folder 50: Valley City
Oversize Folder 51: Wahpeton
Oversize Folder 52: Walhalla
Oversize Folder 53: Washburn
Oversize Folder 54: Williston
Oversize Folder 55: Wilton
Oversize Folder 56: Wyndmere