Maps

The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000. Also see Checklist of all print and electronic Sanborn Maps.

This resource from UT Austin provides thematic maps on the international, national, state, and local levels, many of which are printable. The collection is especially strong for Texas.

Over 400,000 map images.

Area, thematic, and boundary maps primarily of Texas. The Texas Demographic Center is a focal point for the distribution of Census information for Texas.

Afriterra is an archive of antique maps and books related to Africa. It maintains a searchable catalog of over 2,500 high-resolution maps dating from 1480 to 1900 .

USGS maps range from detailed local areas to worldwide. The maps are excellent for a wide range of uses, including emergency response, outdoor recreation, scientific research, and resource management.

Comprises a variety of products and services to access base geospatial information of the United States and its territories. Supports data download, digital and print versions of topographic maps, geospatial data services, and online viewing.

The USGS is the largest producer of printed topographic maps. Their National Geospatial Program (NGP) is converting these historical printed topographic quadrangles to an electronic format (GeoPDF).

Various topical maps and data for Mexico from Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Instructions and tools are in Spanish.

A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations.

Use the box on the home page to find the flood insurance map for a specific city, state or address.

View digitized versions of maps and inserts from National Geographic magazine.

Collection of one-page black and white national and international maps with accompanying PDF files for download or printing.

Continents, regions, territories, dependencies, countries, states, and provinces.

Data maps by themes including population, gender, agriculture, race, veterans.

Soil data and information produced by National Cooperative Soil Survey. Operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, NCRS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of U.S. counties. Also see in print Soil Survey of Bexar County (1966)

Each survey consists of a soil map and separate book. The maps show many cultural features in the landscape such as businesses, churches, schools, mills, gins, and ferries. The collection embraces all Texas county and reconnaissance soil surveys completed prior to 1950.

View NOAA's 1000+ U.S. coastal and Great Lakes nautical charts. These charts are updated weekly and include all of the latest Notice to Mariners corrections.

The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000. Also see Checklist of all print and electronic Sanborn Maps.

The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) was established in 1933 as a federal government-sponsored program. San Antonio was one of the cities for which "residential security maps" were created. Red color coding on these maps often outlined neighborhoods in the older sections of cities, where homeowners and tenants had lower incomes, or in neighborhoods that were made up of ethnic or racial minorities.

Three-part series on DVD tells the story of map-making, from ancient times to the 20th century, demonstrating with dramatizations and scholarship the human quest to know and possess the world.