LibGuides: HIP 500/HI 454: Research Methods: Cleveland Maps

Resources (compiled by CSU)

Current Cleveland Maps
Cleveland Historic Maps, Finally, someone has stitched together several historic plat maps of greater Cleveland -- for 1852, 1874, 1881, 1898, 1912 and 1920/22 -- and aligned them to allow you to switch between years for any location you select! We've needed this for years. Thanks Chris at ESRI Products.
RailsandTrails.com, Steve Titchenal's wonderful map site, containing a trove of digitized maps, charts, plans, topos, pictures and other historic images.
Cleveland Public Library's Map Collection is mounting many maps and atlases of greater Cleveland to their on-line local history site
Cleveland Public Library's Image Collections, using the JPG2000 compression format.
Historical Maps of Cleveland -- from the Dept. of Geography, University of Alabama.
Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps -- Redlining maps for Cuyahoga County and Ohio.
Ohio Web Library: Sanborn Insurance Maps
Knepper, George. The Official Ohio Lands Book (PDF) from the State Auditor's Office.
PA-OH Boundary Re-survey Project - A 1990s re-tracement survey of the Ellicott Line, the base line for the original surveys of the Western Reserve in 1796.
Laying out Cleveland - What images (and ideas) may have influenced Moses Cleaveland's plan?

Cleveland Public Library map collection - the best cartographic reference library in northern Ohio.
Western Reserve Historical Society Library - the region's premier historic map collection (Their collection of historic maps of Cleveland and the Western Reserve are now available in their library on color microfilm!)
Kent State University Map Library - an excellent collection of contemporary maps and reference materials
On-line Map Room of the Summit Memory Project at the Akron-Summit County Public Library's Special Collections.
Hiram College Archives' Maurice & Ethlynn Fox Map Collection
Cleveland State University Library - has a collection of U.S.G.S. topographic maps of the region, as well as some historic maps and atlases of Cleveland.
Cuyahoga County Archives - holds large collections of Auditor's tax maps and Recorder's subdivision plats for Cuyahoga County.
City of Cleveland, Department of Public Health, Division of Environment - which holds a collection of paper maps of city sewers and drainage.
Ohio Historical Society Library - the other big collection of historical maps of Ohio, including some of Cleveland and northern Ohio.
City of Cleveland GIS
Cuyahoga County Planning Department GIS

Bureau of Land Management. "Official Federal Land Records Site." -- Of the three databases offered here, "Land Patents," "Survey Plats and Field Notes," and "Land Status Records," apparently only the first has any Ohio information

Earl Gurney Mead - 20th century map maker. See his list of "Ten Maps"
Arthur B. Suchy (1901-1995) - Illustrator who produced several colorful maps of various areas in the U.S., including Cleveland.
Gary M. Stretar (Spencer, Ohio) - evocative of historic maps of Cleveland and the Reserve
Richard Treaster (Lakewood, Ohio) - Cleveland Institute of Art instructor and corporate watercolorist
Dr. James A. Bier - landform maps of Cuyahoga County
The Cleveland Map Company Home Page - publishers of the 1996 Visitor's Map and Guide to Cleveland.
Rustbelt Cartography - Has a bunch of free Cleveland area digital maps under "samples."