LibGuides: Maps: Massachusetts

Digital Sanborn Maps

National Digital Sanborn Maps
Digitized maps of cities & towns across the country that show building footprints, building use, addresses, parks, cemeteries, industrial uses & more.
Dates: 1867-1970
Note: Online access to the Sanborn Maps is only available to members of the MIT Community (by using web certificates).
Library of Congress Sanborn map collection
The majority of the online maps were created prior to 1900.

Sanborn Maps of Massachusetts in Rotch Library

In print:

See Boston Sanborn Maps listing.

On microfilm:

G1230.F57 1991 [16 reels - see index below]

Detailed fire insurance maps by the Sanborn Map Company show building footprints, lot size, land use, etc.
See also the guide to Boston Sanborn maps on microfilm.

Reel 1

Town	Year	Volume
Abington	1960
Acton	1953
Adams	1961
Amesbury	1958
Andover	1965
Arlington	1973
Ashland	1948
Athol	1965
Attleboro	1969
Auburn	1959
Avon	1949
Barnstable	1962
Barre	1950
Bedford	1962
Belmont	1968
Beverly	1964, 1970
Boston	1964, 1990	v. 1N
	1964, 1990	v. 1S

Reel 2

Town	Year	Volume
Boston	1964, 1990	v. 2N
	1964, 1990	v. 2S
	1964, 1990	v. 3E
	1964, 1990	v. 3W
	1964, 1990	v. 4

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Reel 3

Town	Year	Volume
Boston		v. 5E
	1964, 1990	v. 5W
	1964, 1990	v. 6
	1964, 1990	v. 7

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Reel 4

Town	Year	Volume
Boston	1964, 1990	v. 8
	1964, 1990	v. 9
	1964, 1990	v. 10

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Reel 5

Town	Year	Volume
Boston	1990	v. 11
Bourne	1962
Braintree	1969
Bridgewater	1962
Brockton	1964, 1968	v. 1
	1964, 1965	v. 2
Brookfield	1954
Brookline	1965	v. 1, 2
	1969	v. 1, 2

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Reel 6

Town	Year	Volume
Canton	1959
Chatham	1959
Chelsea	1964, 1985
Chicopee	1967
Clinton	1961
Cohasset	1963
Dalton	1959
Danvers	1961
Dartmouth	1959
Dedham	1962
Duxbury	1954
Easthampton	1959
East Pepperell	1953
Edgartown	1966
Everett	1970, 1972

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Reel 7

Town	Year	Volume
Fall River	1976	v. 1, 2
Fitchburg	1971	v. 1, 2
Framingham	1968
Franklin	1958
Gloucester	1972
Grafton	1960
Great Barrington	1961
Greenfield	1965
Groton	1955
Hamilton	1953
Hanover	1955
Harwich	1959
Haverhill	1961, 1971
Hingham	1962
Holbrook	1944
Holden	1954
Holliston	1959

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Reel 8

Town	Year	Volume
Holyoke	1966, 1972
Hopkinton	1949
Hudson	1963
Hull	1966
Hyannis	1965
Ipswich	1961
Kingston	1954
Lancaster	1955
Lawrence	1968, 1972	v. 1
	1972	v. 2
Lee	1964
Leicester	1959
Lenox	1961
Leominster	1970
Lexington	1961
Littleton	1946
Longmeadow	1962

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Reel 9

Town	Year	Volume
Lowell	1975, 1977	v. 1
	1977	v. 2
Ludlow	1959
Lunenburg	1946
Lynn	1972	v. 1, 2
Malden	1973
Manchester	1958
Mansfield	1963
Marblehead	1968
Marlboro	1961

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Reel 10

Town	Year	Volume
Marshfield	1954
Maynard	1955
Medfield	1954
Medway	1956
Melrose	1961
Merrimac	1946
Methuen	1962
Middleboro	1965
Milford	1958
Millbury	1960
Milton	1969
Nahant	1957
Nantucket	1962
Natick	1968
Needham	1962

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Reel 11

Town	Year	Volume
Newton	1963	v. 2, 3, 4
North Adams	1970
North Andover	1962
North Attleboro	1965
North Brookfield	1957
North Easton	1954
Northampton	1965
Northboro	1951
Northfield	1955
Norton	1944
Norwood	1966
Oak Bluffs	1966
Orange	1958
Oxford	1959
Palmer	1963
Peabody	1968

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Reel 12

Town	Year	Volume
Pittsfield	1967, 1972, 1986
Plymouth	1961
Provincetown	1959
Quincy	1971	v. 1, 2
Randolph	1960
Reading	1968

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Reel 13

Town	Year	Volume
Revere	1965, 1980
Rockland	1963
Salem	1965, 1970
Salisbury	1959
Saugus	1969
Scituate	1963
Seekonk	1940
Sharon	1953
Sheffield	1945
Shelburne Falls	1963
Shrewsbury	1959
Somerset Township	1959
Somerville	1989	v. 1, 2
Southbridge	1965
South Deerfield	1950
South Hadley	1953
South Hadley Falls	1953
Spencer	1959

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Reel 14

Town	Year	Volume
Springfield	1970	v. 1, 2
	1969	v. 3, 4
	1970	v. 5, 6, 7
Stockbridge	1959
Stoneham	1965
Stoughton	1966
Swampscott	1957
Taunton	1968
Templeton	1947
Townsend	1947
Turners Falls	1952
Uxbridge	1960
Vineyard Haven	1966
Wakefield	1965

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Reel 15

Town	Year	Volume
Walpole	1958
Waltham	1972
Ware	1959
Wareham/Onset	1963
Warren	1952
Watertown	1971
Wayland	1955
Webster	1963
Wellesley	1962
West Boylston	1959
Westboro	1959
Westfield	1963
Weston	1954
Westwood	1959
Weymouth	1962
Whitinsville	1960
Whitman	1959
Williamstown	1959
Wilmington	1959
Winchendon	1959
Winchester	1969