HIST 481C - Mapping Orange County Sites

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1945 - 1974

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on 16th through 21st century maps of North and and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online selection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. The digital images and associated descriptive data are copyright Cartography Associates. The physical map collection is housed at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Preserve Orange County was founded in 2016 by a group of county residents who identified a need for a central organization concerned with historic preservation in the whole county. As a resident or visitor, the map is a useful guide to the county’s older neighborhoods and historic sites open to the public, and for researchers the map aspires to be an index to the historic built environment of the region. For preservationists, the map is a storehouse of some of the most important - and vulnerable- places in the county.

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