LibGuides: Geography: Mapping

Government organizations

Statistical Atlas of the United States
In-depth statistical data and analysis for the United States from the US Census Bureau based on the 2010 census and from the American Community Survey (2012-2016).
United States Census
Provides charts and data on many aspects of life and people in the United States.
Library of Congress Maps Collection

Private map collections

David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford
The David Rumsey Map Center is a research and educational center that believes historic maps are an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage. idea of scientific neutrality, and visualize new possibilities. Check the website for visiting hours and procedures.

Mapping projects

Anti-eviction map in San Francisco
"The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes. Primarily working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City, we are all volunteers producing digital maps, software and tools, narrative multimedia work, murals, reports, and community events."
SF Bay Area Gentrification and Displacement
In 2015, researchers at UDP collaborated with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to better understand and predict where gentrification and displacement was happening and would likely occur in the Bay Area through a community-engaged research process. These efforts culminated in the creation of interactive gentrification and displacement typology maps that summarized housing market dynamics and displacement and gentrification risk into categories (“typologies”) at the census tract level.
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The Urban Displacement Project (UDP) is a research and action initiative of the University of California Berkeley and the University of Toronto.
Mapping Race in America
Use this map to observe the level and change in racial residential segregation across the United States. Please read our accompanying report for an explanation on how to use it and what these measures signify.

Come to the library to see the Official Map of San Mateo County from 1894

A copy of this 1894 map hangs on the wall of the Cañada College Library, but this image is from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps

The Sanborn Map Company platted about 12,000 cities and towns in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Insurance companies used the maps to assess liability and value in case of fire.

See the San Francisco Public Library's extensive collection of Sanborn maps for San Francisco County here. Find even more maps of cities and towns throughout the united States in the Library of Congress' Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collection here, including R edwood City.