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Maps & Atlases

Dave Leip's Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections
Aggregates official election results from all 50 states + DC from 1860 to present (once available). Free access for state and national level data and maps. County and congressional-district maps are free. For county data, see a librarian for password-protected access to our purchased datasets.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection This link opens in a new window
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 17,400 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Historical fire insurance maps for cities and towns published by the Sanborn Map Company. The maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Useful for studying the growth of cities. Available online from the Library of Congress. Vermont maps are also on Microfilm 701.
Historic Topographic Maps of New England and New York
Historic topographic maps provided by the UNH Library Government Information Department. In addition, Armstrong Library in Bicentennial Hall has U. S. Geological Survey topographic maps covering all of Vermont. A second set of these maps is available in the map case near the microform readers on the main floor of the Davis Family Library
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Hundreds of political, economic, demographic, religious and historical cartographies of the countries and continents of the last century.
Index and Carto-Bibliography of Maps, 1789-1969
16 volumes. Part of CIS U.S. Serial Set Index. Indexes the ~50,000 maps published by the federal government as part of the U.S. Serial Set, most of which are included in the government documents collection.

Atlas of Addison Co., Vermont
Digitized version of the 1871 edition, available online through MIDCAT.

Vermont Maps Prior to 1900: an Annotated Cartobibliography, by David Allen Cobb, can be found in vol. 39, nos. # & 4 of Vermont History.

Flood Insurance Study...Vermont
Govt. Docs. FEM1.209/45:
Studies are done for individual towns and include maps. Some studies are issued in microfiche
Vermont Atlas and Gazetteer
Ref. Atlas Case G1225
Vermont Maps and Atlases
from the Collection of digitized maps at Middlebury College.
Vermont Place Names
Vt. Coll. F47 S84 1996