Sanborn Maps at the Washington State Library

The Washington State Library has Sanborn maps available on microfilm. They must be viewed at the library. Copyright restrictions prevent our librarians from making copies of entire maps.

Dating from 1884 through the 1950s, the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps offer comprehensive information about commercial, industrial, and residential sections of cities and towns throughout Washington. The Washington State Library has 21 microfilm reels containing more than 1,000 maps of 283 cities. Included on these maps are locations of buildings, streets, and roads along with details on building construction and city infrastructure.

To find out if there is a Sanborn map available for a particular area and/or time period, search here by either city, county, or year.

City
Choose a City Aberdeen Addy Albion Alder Almira Altoona Amboy Anacortes Arlington Asotin Auburn Bainbridge Is. Bellevue Bellingham Bickleton Black Diamond Blaine Bothell Bremerton Brewster Bridgeport Buckley Bucoda Buena Burlington Camas Carbonado Carnation Cashmere Castle Rock Cathlamet Centralia Charleston Chehalis Chelan Cheney Chewelah Chinook Clarkston Clayton Cle Elum Clear Lake Colfax Colton Colville Conconully Concrete Connell Conway Copalis Cosmopolis Coulee City Coupeville Creston Cunningham Curlew Cusick Custer Davenport Dayton Deer Park Doty Dryad Dungeness Dupont Duvall Easton Eatonville Edison Edmonds Edwall Elbe Elberton Ellensburg Elma Eltopia Endicott Entiat Enumclaw Ephrata Everett Everson Fairfield Fairhaven Fall City Farmington Ferndale Friday Harbor Garfield Gig Harbor Gold Bar Goldendale Grandview Granite Falls Grays Harbor City Hamilton Harrington Hartline Hatton Hillyard Hoquiam Ilwaco Index Ione Issaquah Johnson Kahlotus Kalama Kapowsin Kelso Kennewick Kent Kettle Falls Kirkland Krupp La Camas La Center La Conner La Crosse Lamont Langley Latah Leavenworth Lebam Lind Little Falls Long Beach Longview Loomis Lyle Lyman Lynden Mabton Mansfield Manson Marcus Marlin Marysville McCleary McMurray Medical Lake Menlo Metaline Falls Meyers Falls Milan Millwood Mineral Moclips Molson Monroe Montesano Morton Mount Vernon Moxee City Mukilteo Naches Napavine New Whatcom Newport Nooksack North Bend North Yakima Northport Oak Harbor Oaksdale Oakville Ocean Park Ocosta Odessa Okanogan Olympia Omak Onalaska Orient Orillia Oroville Orting Pacific Beach Palouse City Pasco Pataha City Pateros Pe Ell Pine City Pomeroy Port Angeles Port Gamble Port Ludlow Port Orchard Port Townsend Poulsbo Prescott Preston Prosser Pullman Puyallup Quincy Rainier Raymond Reardon Redmond Renton Republic Richland Ridgefield Ritzville Riverside Roche Harbor Rochester Rockford Rosalia Roslyn Roy Saint John Satsop Seattle Seaview Sedro-Woolley Sehome Selah Sequim Shelton Silvana Skamokawa Skykomish Slaughter Snohomish Snoqualmie South Bend South Prairie Spangle Spokane Sprague Springdale Stanwood Starbuck Startup Steilacoom Stella Stevenson Sultan Sumas Sumner Sunnyside Tacoma Tekoa Tenino Toledo Tolt Tomasket Toppenish Touchet Twisp Uniontown Vader Valley Valleyford Vancouver Vashon Waitsburg Walla Walla Wallula Walville Wapato Warden Washougal Washtucna Waterville Waverly Wenatchee Whatcom White Salmon Wilbur Wilkeson Wilson Creek Winlock Winona Winthrop Woodland Yacolt Yakima Yelm Zillah

County
Choose a County Adams Asotin Benton Chelan Clallam Clark Columbia Cowlitz Douglas Ferry Franklin Garfield Grant Grays Harbor Island Jefferson King Kitsap Kittitas Klickitat Lewis Lincoln Mason Okanogan Pacific and Lewis Pacific Pend Oreille Pierce San Juan Skagit Skamania Snohomish Spokane Stevens Thurston Wahkiakum Walla Walla Whatcom Whitman Yakima

Year

For additional information about the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps email the Washington State Library at askalibrarian@sos.wa.gov.

The following book provides further information about the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps:

Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress : plans of North American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company : a checklist. Compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division ; introduction by Walter W. Ristow. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress : Supt. of Docs, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1981.