Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: HIST 4300: American Urban History: Boston Maps

Historical Maps Online

Atlascope Boston
Atlascope Boston is a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.
Bostonography
This website contains maps created by local cartographers Tim Wallace and Andy Woodruff.
Boston Planning & Development Agency: 3D Data & Maps
Open access to 3D Smart Models, GIS maps, and historical maps.
BPL: Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection
This collection consists of maps that were in the library of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which was transferred to the Boston Public Library in the early 1990s.
BPL: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center: Boston and New England Maps
Historical maps from the Boston Public Library.
Boston's Map, Explained (Video)
New Yorker Daniel Steiner consults with Bostonians Ed McCarthy and Nancy Seasholes to explain the city's famously tangled streets (18:22 mins).
Clough's Atlases of Property Owners of Boston in 1798
Digitized atlases showing land ownership in Boston at the close of the 18th century.
Harvard Map Collection: Scanned Maps
Digitized, high-resolution historical maps from the collection at Harvard University.
David Rumsey Map Collection: Boston
MassMapper Interactive Map
Choose from hundreds of map layers to create a map of Massachusetts most relevant to your needs.
LOC: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Downloadable, full-color property maps of cities and towns across the United States. Pre-1924 coverage only.
The Town of Boston in New England (1722)
This map by Capt. John Bonner is the earliest printed map of the city, showing the street layout, buildings, and Mill Pond.

Social Explorer
Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more.

Books on Boston Maps

An Atlas of Massachusetts River Systems by Walter E. Bickford (Editor); Ute J. Dymon (Editor)
Call Number: 333.91009744022 A7

ISBN: 0870236962

Publication Date: 1990
Historical Atlas of Massachusetts by Richard W. Wilkie (Editor); Jack Tager (Editor); Roy Doyon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Oversized 912.744 .H62

ISBN: 0870236970

Publication Date: 1991
Mapping Boston by Alex Krieger (Editor); David Cobb (Editor); Amy Turner (Contribution by)
Call Number: 912.74461 .M37 1999

ISBN: 0262112442

Publication Date: 1999