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Map Center

The Map Center contains most of the library’ s atlases and maps. It recently moved to the CIS Room off the Microforms and Current Periodicals Room at the JPL Library. There are five locations within the Map Center all with a designation in the UTSA online Catalog:

1. Map Center: Contains folded maps in envelopes. Many of the maps are on various geologic topics. Located here are:
   • The Geologic Atlas of Texas
   • CIA maps are good for copying
   • Index for the 7½ minute maps
     
     
2. Map Cases: These contain the Library’s non-folded flat maps. Located here are:
   • 7½ minute topographic maps for Texas and the contiguous states
   • Mexican geologic-topographic maps with index
   • Flood plain insurance maps with index (G4031)
   • The highly regarded National Geographic maps
     
3. Atlas Stands: This is where heavily used atlases are located. Some of the titles found here are:
   • Oxford Atlas of the World
   • Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000
   • Nuevo Atlas Nacional de Mexico
   • Rand McNally Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide
   • County Maps of Texas
   • Atlas of World History
   • West Point Atlases of American Wars
4. Map Center Stacks: Most of the rest of the library’s atlases are located here. Also housed here are Maps on File and State Maps on File, both especially created for copying.


5. Map Center Folios: The exceptionally large atlases are found here.

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Atlases and Map Collections Outside the Map Center

• Reference Desk: The very heavily used Rand McNally Road Atlas and Mapsco Guide and Directory for San Antonio are here.
• JPL Stacks and JPL Folio Stacks: Some less used and relatively obscure atlases are still at these locations.
• Sanborn Insurance Maps: These extremely detailed historical maps are available both electronically through the Digital Sanborn Maps, 1877-1970 or on microfilm in the Microforms area (G4031 .G475 S62). These maps are useful for architects, anthropologists, historians, urban planners, and social scientists.

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Digital Maps

Map Collections

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Free website: www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
PCL Map Collection-UT Austin: This incredible resource provides both thematic maps on the international, national, state and local levels.The collection is especially strong on Texas-- historical, thematic and local.This online collection has many printable maps on such a variety of subjects that it is absolutely invaluable.

Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports
Free Website: http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/censusatlas/
Location (print): JPL Map Center G1201.E2 U5 2007
A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations.

NationalAtlas.gov
Free Website: nationalatlas.gov
Interactive map generator from the Department of the Interior. View, download or print maps by selecting features to display: cities and counties, roads and rivers, amphibians and butterflies, water quality, earthquakes, forest types, and more. Map your Congressional district. Find an aerial photo of your neighborhood.

National Geographic Xpeditions
Free Website: www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas
National Geographic Xpeditions Atlas: Collection of black and white national and international maps with accompanying PDF files which are easy to print.

7.5 Minute Topographic Maps

The National Map
Free website: http://nationalmap.gov/

Flood Insurance Rate Maps

FEMA Map Service Center
Free Website: http://msc.fema.gov
Search "Public Flood Map" by address.

Bexar Regional Watershed Management
Free Website: http://bexarfloodfacts.org/
Contains the unofficial projected flood plain maps as yet unapproved by FEMA.

Mexico

Mapa digital de México: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática
Free Website: http://galileo.inegi.gob.mx/website/mexico/viewer.htm?sistema=1&c=423&s=geo&md=d
Layered map of Mexico.

San Antonio

City of San Antonio GIS Mapping Application
Free Website: http://maps.sanantonio.gov/
Layered map of San Antonio.

Soil Survey Maps

Natural Resources Conservation Service
Free Website: http://soils.usda.gov/survey/online_surveys/

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Books

Limiting to Maps

UCAT’s limiting option is useful for finding maps on a given topic.

• Click the “Set Limits” button located at the bottom right of the main search screen.
• Find the “Medium” category and select “Map” from the list.
• Then click the “Set Limits” button at the bottom of the Search Limits screen.
• Type in the desired search term and conduct the search.