I happen to have an old friend living in South Dakota and he applied for his state library card and was able to download the 9 maps for Deadwood that I wanted. Thanks Larry! Anyway the information on these maps is very interesting, if you can get your hands on the colored versions (again thanks University of Colorado) then you can pick things out by the color which represents the major material that the building was made from. They are also drawn to scale so you can take rough building measurements from them if you need to. Not every town has a set of Sanborn maps but when they do you can literally follow the growth of a town from one edition to the next. While 1885 can be done in 3 maps, 1891 Deadwood takes 6 maps. Deadwood is an interesting place to be sure and I look forward to really digging into these maps while I work on more model buildings for Calamity.
Here I pieced together the three sections that make up the 1885 edition of Deadwood, You can see the roads, the railroad tracks, rivers, creeks and buildings. |
Moving in a little closer in this case where two map sections come together, |
And some close up detail |
This is a colored version in this case of Silver Plume Colorado which has had its fair share of influence on what I want Calamity to look like. |
Thanks Buddy. I just blew 4 hours looking through CU's Sanborn maps. Haven't done a dang thing all afternoon. :p
ReplyDeleteGlad to help, anytime! They are pretty addictive.
DeleteWow, those are cool maps... I used a couple of historical maps when I was creating the semi-fictional Irony MT, but these are way better...
ReplyDeleteThey are highly sought after by the model railroading crowd. Lots of cool information if you have the patience and access to a library either on site or online that has a set. Some of the libraries just subscribe so sometimes you can get access to the maps in other states as well.
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