Union List of Sanborn & Other Fire Insurance Maps

Nevada


by

Bill Hunt and Evelyn L. Woodruff

Revised by Philip Hoehn and Linda Newman



Many maps are online from the University of Nevada, Reno.   Additional holdings, not listed below, are in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

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Aurora (Esmeralda County)

1890 - 1 sheet
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Nevada Historical Society (2 copies; 1 with undated changes in pencil)

Austin (Lander County)

1886 - 1 sheet
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Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1917 (revision) - 1 sheet
California State University, Northridge
1941 (revision) - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Battle Mountain (Lander County; 1885 on sheet with Palisade)

1885 - 1 sheet
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Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1897 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1927 - 7 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society (5 sheets)
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Carlin (Elko County)

1885 - 1 sheet
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Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1897 - 1 sheet
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Nevada Historical Society
1927 - 5 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 5 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Carson City

1885 - 4 sheets
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Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 4 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 13 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1941 (revision) - 13 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
University of Utah

Columbia (Esmeralda County)

1905 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society

Dayton (Lyon County)

1890 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1895 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1930 (revision) - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society (with pencilled revisions to 1939)
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

East Ely (see Ely)

Elko (Elko County)

1885 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1897 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1904 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 8 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1927 - 16 sheets
Library of Congress
Stanford University
1943 (revision) - 16 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Ely (White Pine County; includes East Ely; 1907 called Ely City)

1907 - 8 sheets
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Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 11 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1923 - 11 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1941 (revision) - 12 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1945 (revision) - 12 sheets
Library of Congress

Eureka (Eureka County)

1886 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 4 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1941 (revision) - 4 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Fallon (Churchill County)

1905 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1909 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 8 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1923 - 13 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 13 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Gardnerville (Douglas County; 1912 includes Minden)

1899 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
University of Nevada, Reno
1923 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Gold Hill (see also Virginia City)

1877 - 4 sheets / [Sanborn Map Co.?]
Nevada Historical Society

Goldfield (Esmeralda County)

1905 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1906 - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1909 - 8 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1917 (revision) - 8 sheets
Library of Congress
Huntington Library
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1933 (revision) - 8 sheets
Nevada Historical Society

Hawthorne (Mineral County)

1942 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
1943 (revision) - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Lake Mills (see Reno)

Las Vegas (Clark County)

1923 - 10 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1928 - 15 sheets
Library of Congress
1944 (revision) - 21 sheets
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1950 (revision) - 23 sheets
Library of Congress
1954 (revision)
California State University, Northridge
1959 (revision)
California State University, Northridge
1962 (revision) - 36 sheets
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas

Lovelock (Pershing County)

1904 - 2 sheets
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Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1914 - 4 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1923 - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1952 (revision) - 7 sheets
Nevada Historical Society

Minden (Douglas County; see also Gardnerville)

1923 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 2 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Palisade (see Battle Mountain)

Pioche (Lincoln County)

1939 - 1 sheet
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Reno (Washoe County; 1879 includes Lake Mills)

1879 - 5 sheets / T.B. Camp
Library of Congress
1879 - 5 sheets / T.B. Camp (Shkurkin facsimile)
University of California, Berkeley
1885 - 5 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 10 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1899 - 18 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1904 - 31 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society (has pencilled changes to 1911)
1906 - 31 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1918 - 64 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1933 (revision) - 65 sheets
Nevada Historical Society (has pencilled changes to 1936 or 1937)
1941 (revision)
California State University, Northridge
1944 (revision)
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1949 (revision) - 73 sheets
Library of Congress
1954 (1958 revision)
California State University, Northridge
1955 (revision)
Library of Congress

Rhyolite (Nye County)

1909 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
University of Nevada, Reno
1912 (revision) - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Sparks (Washoe County)

1904 - 6 sheets
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Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 9 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 10 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1925 - 16 sheets
Library of Congress
California State University, Northridge
University of Nevada, Reno
1930 (revision) - 16 sheets
Nevada Historical Society
1942 (revision) - 16 sheets
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
1946 (revision) - 16 sheets
Library of Congress

Tonopah (Nye County)

1905 - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1906 - 7 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1909 - 8 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1917 - 15 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1941 (revision) - 15 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
Nevada Historical Society (incomplete)

Tuscarora (Elko County)

1886 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890- 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society

Verdi (Washoe County)

1912 - 2 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1930 (revision) - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Virginia City (Storey County; includes Gold Hill)

1890 - 13 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 13 sheets / (Shkurkin facsimile)
Stanford University (incomplete)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1907 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1923 - 6 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Utah
1930 (revision) - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Wadsworth (Washoe County)

1885 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 1 sheet
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1897 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society

Wells (Elko County)

1914 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

Winnemucca (Humboldt County)

1885 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1890 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1897 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1904 - 3 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1907 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1912 - 9 sheets
California State University, Northridge
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 9 sheets
Library of Congress
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN
University of Utah
1952 (revision) 3 + 2 half sheets
Nevada Historical Society

Yerington (Lyon County)

1909 - 2 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society
1923 - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
University of Nevada, Reno
1943 (revision) - 6 sheets
Library of Congress
Nevada Historical Society (incomplete)
Formerly: US Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN

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In addition to the Western Association of Map Libraries Occasional Papers, these sources were used:

Moody, Eric N. "Urban History in Fire Insurance Maps: Nevada as a Case Study." Western Association of Map Libraries Information Bulletin, v. 10, no. 2 (1979), p. 129-138.
----------. "A Further Note on Nevada's Sanborn Maps: Additional Holdings." Western Association of Map Libraries Information Bulletin, v. 10, no. 3 (1979), p. 259-260.


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