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The Map Collection’s maps of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: recent and historic USGS topographic quadrangles, satellite and aerial photo images, county soil surveys, remote sensing land use maps, flood insurance maps, geoscience thematic maps, travel and  recreation maps.

Connecticut Valley Urban Area Project: environmental, geologic and hydrologic studies of the Connecticut River Valley. A USGS thematic quadrangle series of maps depicting the Connecticut River Valley and adjacent areas in Massachusetts, Connecticut, southern New Hampshire and Vermont.

Historic Maps of Massachusetts: nearly 1,000 historic maps and atlases depicting the state and its regions, counties, cities and towns.  Many of these historic maps include pictorial views or reflect specialized subject areas such as topography, transportation, roads, tourism, historic sites, commerce, census information, property division and ownership, and political boundaries.  More historic Massachusetts maps are among the early USGS topographic quadrangles dating from the late 1890’s.  In addition the Collection holds digital historic maps of Franklin, Hampshire, Plymouth and Worcester Counties. 

Many of the Collection’s Massachusetts maps and atlases can be found in the Library’s online catalog including the more recent USGS topographic quadrangles.  Subject search “Massachusetts Maps”.  Title search “topographic maps of Massachusetts”

Additional Massachusetts map resources:
Historic, General, Environmental and Geosciences

Historic

Special Collections and Archives Historic Maps
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/maps.htm

Digital Sanborn Maps for the 6 New England states database
Detailed depictions of cities and their structures for over a century.  Building dimensions, construction details, and significant building features
http://sanborn.umi.com/

David Rumsey Map Collection database of historic atlases
http://www.davidrumsey.com/northamericanatlases.html

Boston Streets.  Digitized historical atlas of the Boston Area. Tufts University
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/index.html

Boston Subsurface Project . Boston history, soil, and buildings. Historic maps showing changes since 1775.  Surficial geology and subsurface conditions found in a soil boring, and connected to existing buildings and their foundations with the soil conditions beneath them. Tufts University
http://bostonsoil.atech.tufts.edu/

Historic USGS Maps of Massachusetts.  University of New Hampshire
http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/massachusetts.htm

Library of Congress Panoramic Map 1847-1929.  Includes 100 views of Massachusetts towns in the 19th century.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

Mapping Boston
http://mappingboston.com/

Oxford University’s Bodleian Library Map Room.  Includes a plan of Boston from 1776.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/boris/guides/maps/mapcase.htm

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection.  Historic city maps of Boston and Fall River.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/massachusetts.html

General

American Factfinder.  Census Bureau reference maps
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ReferenceMapFramesetServlet?_bm=y&-lang=en

Boston Atlas.  Boston Redevelopment Authority.  Overlays of streets, buildings, orthophotos, historic data.
http://www.mapjunction.com/places/Boston_BRA/main.pl?ht=768

Boston PMSA.  Five maps of the Boston area using 1990 census data.  University of Minnesota
http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/atlas/1990/MA/boston/maps.html

Boston Redevelopment Authority.  Maps of Boston and its neighborhoods.
http://www.ci.boston.ma.us/bra/neighborhoods/neighborhoods.asp

Citizen Information Service. Massachusetts County and legislative district maps.
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cisidx.htm

Digital Atlas of Boston and Vicinity.  Professor William Bowen, California State University
http://130.166.124.2/bospg1.html

Mass Geographic Information System (GIS)
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/massgis.htm

Mass.Gov.electronic maps, including Mass GIS, geographical and political, recreation and outdoor activities, healthcare, and environment
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=mg2modulechunk&&L=1&L0=Home&sid=massgov2&b=terminalcontent&f=maps&csid=massgov2

MIT Digital Ortho Photos
http://ortho.mit.edu/

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/massachusetts.html

Environmental and Geoscience

Connecticut River Homepage. Ed Klekowski and Libby Klekowski, University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Biology, history and geology of New England’s longest river.
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/

Dynamic Digital Maps. Christopher D. Condit, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Geoscience thematic maps with linked photo icons, map symbols, and site images.
http://ddm.geo.umass.edu/

Electronic Atlas of the Cape Cod Environment.  Woods Hole Research Center.
http://www.whrc.org/capecod/index.htm

Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library (ISEL). USGS geologic and hydrologic quadrangles for Massachusetts.
http://www.library.umass.edu/libraries/intscien.html

Major Drainage Basins.  USGS Massachusetts Rhode Island Water Science Center
http://ma.water.usgs.gov/basins/default.htm

Massachusetts Resource Identification Project (MRIP). GIS based natural resource identification and preservation project.
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mrip.htm

Massachusetts Wildlife Pond Maps
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfw_pond.htm

Mass Wildlife.  Wildlife Management Area Map.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfw_cd.htm

Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist:  Extensive geoscience map links
 http://www.geo.umass.edu/newsite/stategeologist/index.html

Resource Mapping; Land Information Systems.  University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Natural Resources Conservation.  Digital data for use within a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using aerial photography and other remotely sense images to update land use/land cover maps in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as other geographic areas.
http://www.umass.edu/forwild/rmapping/Home%20Page/index.html

Woods Hole Science Center. Marine studies maps for Massachusetts coast and ocean areas.
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov