Map Collection and Online Resources: Tennessee Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a large-scale representation of the growth and layout of American cities. The University of Tennessee Libraries' collection currently provides digital versions of the four earliest sets of Knoxville maps - 1884, 1890, 1903, and 1917.

Digitized B&W versions of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for cities and towns in Tennessee. Requires UTK NetID and Password for access.

All public domain Sanborn Fire Insurance maps have been digitized and are available online (with the exception of some sheets from 1923-1929). Sheets that are still under copyright restriction are not available online. Tools for searching the Sanborn maps at the Library of Congress are fully described and linked below.

A crowdsourcing site for creating and viewing georeferenced mosaics of historical fire insurance maps from the Library of Congress.

The Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) is a digital repository of the Tennessee State Library & Archives providing open access to thousands of photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other records relating to the history and culture of Tennessee.