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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Houston, Texas, 1946, Sheet 1217]

Sanborn Map Company (cartographer) · 1946 Full Details

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Title
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Houston, Texas, 1946, Sheet 1217]
Description
Originally published by Sanborn Map Co., New York; name of publisher and place of publication varies., Fire insurance map, hand-colored to show building construction, locations of windows and doors, elevators, and available water facilities., Shows factories, commercial occupancy of buildings, property boundaries and house and block numbers., Includes notes on population, fire departments, and prevailing winds., Includes location map and key to building colors and other features., This scanned map image was georeferenced using an automated process developed by the UT Libraries. The code for used in this process can be accessed on GitHub at https://github.com/utlibraries/histmap-autogeoref-tools. If you discover significant issues with this automatically georeferenced map please contact gis@lib.utexas.edu to report the problem.
Creator
Sanborn Map Company (cartographer)
Subject
Fire risk assessment maps, Scanned maps, Georeferenced maps
Temporal Coverage
1946
Date Issued
1946
Rights
public access
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Access Rights
Public
Format
GeoTIFF
Language
English
Date Added
June 04, 2026
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was harvested from GitHub at https://github.com/OpenGeoMetadata/edu.utexas on 2026-06-04.

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    Sanborn Map Company (cartographer) (1946). Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps [Houston, Texas, 1946, Sheet 1217]. . https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utlmaps:e30b4995-d9c1-4c68-b8ee-9a0078e33c20 (map)
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