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Hocking County, Ohio
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Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps The Sanborn Company began making fire insurance maps in
1867. In the decades following the end of the Civil War, fire
insurance mapping grew rapidly, mirroring the flourish of growth in the
country, the rebuilding of the South and massive westward expansion.
Factors such as the Homestead Act, railroad construction, the Industrial
Revolution and massive immigration into the United States all fostered
huge population growths, urbanization, and heightened demand for
mapping. Originally created solely for insurance assessment purposes,
it was said that at one time, insurance companies and their agents,
“relied upon them with almost blind faith”. The maps were utilized by
insurance companies to determine the liability of a particular building
through all the information included on the map; building material,
proximity to other buildings and fire departments, the location of gas
lines et cetera. The very decision as to how much, if any insurance was to
be offered to a customer was often determined solely through the use of a
Sanborn map. The maps also allowed insurance companies to visualize their
entire coverage areas; when an agent sold a policy he could color in the
corresponding building on the map and visualize the companies’
coverage of an area. From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Click on any map below to
have it open to full size.
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