UCB Libraries

Map Library

Local Libraries with Map Collections

• Government Publications
  -Agriculture Department maps
  -Forest Service maps
  -CIA maps
  -Department of Interior maps
  -European Community maps
  -United Nations maps

 

• Archives

 

• Central Reference
  -The main Reference Department, first floor, Norlin, has a large atlas and gazetteer collection.

• Colorado School of Mines
  Map Room, Arthur Lakes Library
  1400 Illinois St.
  Golden, CO 80401
  (303) 273-3697
  Fax: (303) 273-3199
  cthiry@mines.edu

 

• Denver Public Library -
  10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy.
  Denver, CO 80204-2731
  Government Publications -- Maps
  (303) 640-6220
  Western History and Genealogy
  (720) 865-1821

 

• U.S. Geological Survey Library
  Box 25046, MS 914
  Denver Federal Center
  Denver, CO 80225-0046
  (303) 236-1000
  Fax: (303) 236-0015
  den_lib@usgs.gov

 

• Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
  1125 Pine Street
  Boulder, CO 80302
  (303) 441-3110

 

• Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library
  and Colorado Mountain Club Collection
  American Mountaineering Center
  710 Tenth Street Suite 15
  Golden, CO 80401
  Ph: 303-384-0112
  Fax: 303-384-0113
  Largest alpine research facility outside Europe, with strengths in American and foreign guidebooks, Mount Everest, the Himalayas and the Alps.  Holds route maps and topographic maps, including a large pre-WWII Alps collection.

 

• Robert W. Richardson Railroad Library
  (at the Colorado Railroad Museum)
  17155 W. 44th Avenue
  Golden, CO 80403
  Ph: 303-279-4591
  Holds variety of maps, atlases and aerial photos (many historical).  Of note are valuation maps from 1918-20, which show much detail along CO railroad lines, sometimes including rivers and town plats.  The library sells reproductions of these valuation maps.

 

• National Archives
  Bldg. 48, Denver Federal Center
  Denver, Colorado 80225-0307
  303-236-0804
  Fax:303-236-9297
  center@denver.nara.gov

 

• Colorado Historical Society
  Stephen H. Hart Library
  1300 Broadway
  Denver, CO 80203
  (303) 866-2305
  library@chs.state.co.us

• Center for Research Libraries
  CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
  A great collection of historical maps, available through CU Boulder's interlibrary loan department .

Other Local Map Resources

• Louisville Historical Museum
  Historical photograph collection. Also holds a copy of a 1909 Drumm wall map of Louisville.