Maps

Specialists

Libraries

Blogs

Fly Us to the Moon: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 | July 12, 2019
Hit the Road America: A Cartographic History of the American Road Trip | June 25, 2019
Sanborn fire insurance map collection online | December 4, 2018
FOSS4GNA2018: The free & open source software for geospatial conference, St. Louis, MO. | May 19, 2018
The ArcGIS Online mapping platform is now available to all Stanford affiliates | February 9, 2018

Topic guides

Oil and gas maps
Geologic maps
Topographic maps
Soviet military topographic map sets
Gazetteers
Sanborn fire insurance maps
Russia and Eurasia: find statistics, geographical information and maps
East Central Europe: Find statistics, geographical information and maps
Road maps
Find rare maps online
John Speed and John Ogilby, 15-16th century cartographers
Geographic atlases
Gaihozu: Japanese imperial maps
Warren Heckrotte gold rush maps
Maps to the masses
County atlases
Nineteenth-century landscape views
Thematic maps: Civil War & fire insurance

Course guides

CLASSGEN 61N
Classical California

Notable collections

  • The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Libraries

    David Rumsey Map Collection

    Collection focusing on the Mapping of North America, also contains maps from around the world. The majority of the collection is from the 17th-19th Century.

  • Iconic image for the Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.

    Maps of Africa

    Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.

  • Geology of the Pine Mountain area, Ventura County, California

    Stanford Geological Survey Collection

    450 maps and 50 field notebooks survey and map parts of California, Nevada, and Utah.

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