Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

The Sanborn Map Company's fire insurance maps are excellent resources for researching communities, industries, or specific buildings. Sanborn began producing maps just after the Civil War and ceased updates for most just after World War II. The level of detail shown in each map and Sanborn's high production standards ensure uniform information over long periods of time.

Because Sanborn maps are a tool of the fire insurance industry, they focus on fire risks and fire-fighting capabilities. This, in turn, provides a wide range of information about architectural structure, integrity and use of buildings; terrain; transportation; employment; locally-available goods and services; and the general population of a town.

Interpreting Sanborn Maps

The Library of Congress provides detailed interpretation guides for Sanborn maps:

Maps of Mississippi

Digital Copies:

Digital copies are available both from ProQuest, with a Mississippi State University log-in, and from the Library of Congress, no log-in required.

Print Copies:

The following is a list of all Sanborn maps known to exist for Mississippi. Maps we own are indicated in bold. The collection includes original color maps for single dates and black-and-white photocopies of corrected maps (double dates followed by "corr.").

Browse by town:

Aberdeen 1885, 1890, 1894, 1899, 1905, 1910, 1918, 1925, 1925/1959 corr. (Special Collections only)
Ackerman 1898, 1904, 1909, 1925, 1925/1933 corr.
Amory 1902 (Library of Congress only), 1906, 1911, 1918, 1925, 1929, 1929/1961 corr. (Special Collections only)
Baldwyn 1925
Batesville 1925, 1932
Bay St. Louis / Waveland 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1917, 1924, 1930
Belzoni 1905, 1911, 1915, 1927
Benoit 1915, 1925
Biloxi / d'Iberville / North Biloxi 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1914, 1925, 1925/1948 corr. (Library of Congress only), 1925/1952 corr. (MSU copy on microfilm), 1925/1962 corr.(Special Collections only)
Bolton 1905, 1925
Booneville 1910
Brookhaven / Bogue Chitto 1886, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1918, 1925
Brooksville 1925, 1925/1939 corr. (Special Collections only)
Byhalia 1915, 1932
Canton 1887, 1892, 1905, 1911, 1916, 1925, 1925/1963 corr. (Special Collections only)
Carrollton / North Carrollton 1895, 1900, 1905, 1911, 1925
Centreville 1886, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1909, 1925
Charleston 1915, 1925, 1925/1960 corr. (Special Collections only)
Clarksdale / Lyon 1892, 1897, 1905, 1909, 1914, 1918, 1923, 1929, 1929/1966 corr. (Special Collections only)
Cleveland 1905, 1909, 1913, 1925, 1933, 1933/1960 (Special Collections only)
Coffeeville 1893 (Library of Congress only), 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1925
Coldwater 1886, 1892, 1905, 1910, 1917, 1925
Collins 1925
Columbia 1915, 1925, 1931
Columbus 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1926, 1926/1966 corr. (Special Collections only)
Como 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1911, 1918, 1925
Corinth / West Corinth 1885, 1889, 1894, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1913, 1924, 1924/1963 corr. (Special Collections only)
Crystal Springs 1889, 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1925, 1930
Drew 1925
Durant 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1914, 1925, 1925/1942 corr.
Edwards 1886, 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1925
Ellisville 1890, 1895, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1926
Enterprise / New Enterprise 1885, 1890, 1895, 1906, 1912, 1926
Eupora 1905, 1910, 1918, 1925, 1925/1938 corr.
Fayette 1904, 1908, 1925
Forest 1928
Friars Point 1886, 1897, 1904, 1909, 1918, 1924/1936 corr.
Fulton 1929
Gloster [City] 1893, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1925, 1925/1936 corr.
Greenville 1887, 1890, 1896, 1905, 1911, 1915, 1925, 1931, 1932/1968 corr. (Special Collections only)
Greenwood 1892, 1897, 1899, 1905, 1911, 1918, 1926, 1926/1964 corr. (Special Collections only)
Grenada / Tie Plant 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1925, 1925/1959 corr. (Special Collections only)
Gulfport 1904, 1907, 1912, 1921, 1929
Hattiesburg 1890, 1895, 1898, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1915, 1925, 1931
Hazlehurst 1886, 1892, 1897, 1907, 1913, 1925
Hernando 1892, 1903, 1909, 1915, 1925, 1936
Hollandale 1926
Holly Springs 1887, 1892, 1897 (misdated as 1891 in digital collection), 1907, 1915, 1925
Houston 1925, 1925/1944 corr. (Special Collections only)
Indianola 1900, 1915, 1925, 1931
Itta Bena 1905, 1918, 1925
Iuka 1925
Jackson / Fondren 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1904, 1909, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1925/1946 corr. [reprinted 1948 as small spiral bound atlas], 1925/1967-68 corr. (Special Collections only)
Kosciusko 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1914, 1925, 1932, 1932/1960 corr. (Special Collections only)
Lambert 1925
Laurel 1900, 1907, 1910, 1915, 1926, 1926/1966 corr. (Special Collections only)
Leland 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1925
Lexington 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1914, 1925, 1925/1951 corr. (Special Collections only)
Long Beach 1924, 1930
Louisville 1925, 1925/1942 corr.
Lumberton 1906, 1912, 1925, 1925/1944 corr.
McComb [City] 1886 (Special Collections only), 1893, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1913, 1918, 1925
McHenry 1925
Macon 1885, 1890, 1894, 1899, 1904, 1925, 1925/1942 corr.
Magnolia 1898, 1904, 1909, 1918, 1925
Marks 1925
Meridian 1885, 1889, 1893, 1898, 1912, 1925/1967 corr. (Special Collections only)
Mississippi City / Handsboro 1900, 1904, 1909, 1924, 1929
Moorhead 1907, 1911, 1918, 1925
Moss Point 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1925
Natchez 1886, 1897, 1901, 1904, 1910, 1925, 1925/1966 corr. (Special Collections only)
New Albany 1904, 1907, 1913, 1925, 1925/1962 corr. (Special Collections only)
Newton 1905, 1910, 1927
Ocean Springs 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1925
Okolona 1889, 1894, 1899, 1905, 1910, 1925, 1925/1945 corr.
Oxford 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1916, 1925, 1925/1949 corr. (Special Collections only)
Pascagoula 1904, 1918, 1924
Pass Christian / Henderson Point 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1918, 1924, 1930
Philadelphia / Deemer 1926, 1932, 1932/1942 corr.
Picayune 1929, 1951
Pickens 1895, 1900, 1905, 1911, 1925
Pontotoc 1895 (Library of Congress only), 1898, 1905, 1910, 1916, 1925, 1929, 1929/1953 corr. (Special Collections only)
Poplarville 1915, 1925
Port Gibson 1889, 1896, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1925, 1930, 1930/1948 corr.
Quitman 1930, 1951
Raymond 1925
Richton 1925
Ripley 1925
Rolling Fork 1915, 1916 (Library of Congress only), 1926, 1936
Rosedale 1904, 1909, 1918, 1924, 1925 (Library of Congress only), 1925/1947 corr. (Special Collections only)
Ruleville 1925
Sardis 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1915, 1925
Scranton 1893, 1898, 1909
Senatobia 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1915, 1925
Shaw 1911, 1925, 1933
Shelby 1911, 1919, 1925
Shubuta 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1906, 1912, 1926
Starkville 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1918, 1925, 1925/1959 corr. (Special Collections only)
Summit 1886, 1892, 1902, 1913, 1918, 1925, 1925/1950 corr. (Special Collections only)
Sumner 1925, 1925/1938 corr.
Sumrall 1925
Sunflower 1925
Tchula 1925
Tunica 1918, 1924, 1925/1946 corr. (Special Collections only)
Tupelo / East Tupelo 1889, 1894, 1899, 1903, 1909, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1929/1964 corr. (Special Collections only)
Tutwiler 1925
Tylertown 1925, 1931
Union 1926
Vaiden 1889, 1894, 1899, 1905, 1910, 1925
Vicksburg / Walters / Waltersville 1886, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1925, 1925/1969 corr. (Special Collections only)
Water Valley 1885, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1910, 1925, 1932
Webb 1925
Wesson 1886, 1889, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1925
West Point 1885, 1890, 1894, 1898, 1905, 1910, 1918, 1925, 1925/1959 corr. (Special Collections only)
Wiggins 1925
Winona 1886, 1889, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1911, 1925, 1932, 1932/1940 corr.
Woodville 1886, 1893, 1904, 1909, 1925
Yazoo City 1886, 1889, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1911, 1927, 1927/1962 corr. (Special Collections only)

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