Map Library
Local Libraries with Map Collections
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Libraries
- 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.
Boulder/Denver Area Map Libraries
- 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.
