Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
1899/1900
San Francisco, California
The black and white maps presented here are from six volumes that covered San Francisco in 1899 and 1900. To locate a specific location, consult the various indexes to locate the correct Map Sheet. Then select the appropriate link below.The Sanborn Map Company (aka Sanborn-Perris Map Company) began creating fire insurance maps in 1867. These maps were large-scale, detailed maps showing the commercial, industrial, and residential sections of cities. They were created to assist insurance agencies in assessing the fire risk of properties. Some of the details shown on these maps include building use, sidewalk and street widths, layout and names, property boundaries, distance between buildings, house and block numbers, location of water mains, hydrants, piping, wells, cisterns, and fuel storage tanks. In many cases, as the years passed, map collections were updated by pasting new drawings directly over the original and previous drawings. Some of the maps were also color coded.There are a number of internet sites that may aid you in deciphering the maps. A PDF file available at the University of Virginia Library has a list of abbreviations and a map legend. If you interested in the history of the Sanborn Map Company, take a look at the UC Berkeley page. There are more years available for San Francisco. The San Francisco Public Library History Center has microfilm copies of them from 1886. They also have some original volumes in the public area which can be easily perused. There is also a colorized set of these images at the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Please note that these are all PDF documents, which is a popular, well-known document format. They can be read from the FREE Adobe Reader®, which can be downloaded from here.
Also, please note that these are very big files and make take some time to download if you have a slower internet connection. The biggest file is the Contour Map. If you can download this one, than you should be able to download the rest.
| Volume One | Front | Map Index A | Map Index B | Streets Index | Specials Index |
| Volume Two | Front | Map Index A | Map Index B | Streets Index | Specials Index |
| Volume Three | Front | Map Index A | Streets Index | Specials Index | |
| Volume Four | Front | Map Index A | Map Index B | Streets Index | Specials Index |
| Volume Five | Front | Map Index A | Map Index B | Streets Index | Specials Index |
| Volume Six | Front | Map Index A | Map Index B | Streets Index | Specials Index |
Front: first page of volume. Includes publishing information.
Map Index: a map index to the individual map sheets, including the Key.
Streets Index: a street index to the individual map sheets.
Specials Index: a index of "special" places, such as businesses, buildings, etc. to the individual map sheets.
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