Government Sources by Subject: Maps in Government Publications

Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus. Country comparisons of social indicators: life expectancy, infant mortality, safe water, population, growth, poverty and energy efficiency, and more...Browse by region, topic, books and book series, journals, working papers, research publications.

U.S. maps and data

Administrative & thematic maps from the Washington State government

Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus. A mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States (supports Firefox and Internet Explorer).

Geospatial data for the state of Washington; also contains selected non-Washington geospatial data sets that have been created by students and researchers at the University of Washington.

1964 - 1993 (incomplete) in print. See also 1960 edition.
1998 - 2006 on CD-Rom.

For greatest detail, click on map image or title, then click again on link following "View Map Image (Zoom)"

Map by zip code, city, county, watershed, EPA region, latitude and longitude.

1544-2004; although the Library of Congress has converted only a small fraction of its huge cartographic holdings to digital form, it is still an impressive collection. Themes include cities and towns, conservation, military battles, and more... Browse for maps by geographic region, subject, creator, title, or keyword. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be possible to search by date range.

1867-
These large-scale maps showing the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico were designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard associated with a particular property. They show the size, shape, and construction of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories as well as fire walls, locations of windows and doors, sprinkler systems, and types of roofs. The maps also indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Locations of water mains are shown, with their dimensions, as well as fire alarm boxes and hydrants.

Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus. Selected Census data from 1790 to the present with tract level data starting in 1940. Social Explorer allows users to create interactive maps and data reports.

Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus. 1817-1980; digital images of maps that appeared in Congressional publications; "more than 50,000 maps in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set ... great atlases to small individual maps clarifying very specific land questions, to the great triangulation surveys, to the repetitive but for the meteorologist important weekly weather maps, to the maps that made history as well as the maps of past history and of course to the purely serendipitous, or so it would seem, maps found in the Serial Set."

Master title plats, historical indices, survey plats and notes

Digitally reproduced from the original manuscript plat maps of all Washington townships.

Original federal land surveys of Washington and Oregon beginning in 1851; includes indices.

Describes each step in the survey process.

Guide produced by the Map Collection at the University of Washington Libraries.

Over 270,000 map sheets, 86,000 aerial photographs, and 2,000 atlases, as well as electronic mapping products and digital geospatial data for use with GIS software

Details on where to find maps in the UW Libraries, specifics on catalog searching, comprehensive information on types of maps, and key resources on the web.