Texas Digital Sanborn Maps

Digital Sanborn Maps provides digital access to 2118 large-scale maps of 436 Texas towns and cities, including Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, and San Antonio.

Produced for over a century, more than 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.

Click on Open Resource, Login, and use the Resources A to Z tab to find Texas Digital Sanborn Maps. To use the Texas State Library databases you must have a Burleson library card. Please contact us at 817-426-9209 if you need assistance.

This resource requires a library card to use it.