A0050 – Map Collection

Administrative Information

Restriction on access: The collection is available for supervised use by appointment during normal Boynton Beach City Library hours. Users are required to comply with the library’s regulations governing use.

Terms governing use and reproduction: Materials in the collections are to be used for private study, scholarship, or research in accord with the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). The Boynton Beach City Library adheres to all conditions specified in the law when providing reproductions of copyrighted material. Any use of a reproduction in excess of “fair use," may result in the user’s liability for copyright infringement.

Additional physical form available: Many maps are available for viewing online.

Preferred Citation: From the collections of the Boynton Beach City Library Local History Archives, Map Collection (A0050) item number.

Date of finding aid: October 2022 by Georgen Charnes 

Physical Location:

  • Box 1: D-9B
  • Box 2-4: D-9C

Collection Description

Scope and Content Note: Maps are stored according to format and size, including folded road maps and navigational books on shelves, rolled storage, and flat files.

Contents / System of arrangement

  • Road maps
  • Rolled storage
  • Flat files
  • Land atlases

Series 1: Transportation and Communication Maps: Road maps

  • Subseries 1: United States
  • Subseries 2: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Alachua County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 5: Broward County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 6: Collier County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 7: Dade County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 8: Duval County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 9: Hillsborough County (Fla.)
  • Subseries  10: Indian River County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 11: Lake County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 12: Lee County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 13: Levy County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 14: Martin County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 15: Monroe County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 16: Orange County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 17: Palm Beach County (Fla.) Includes Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach
  • Subseries 18: Pasco County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 19: Pinellas County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 20: St. Lucie County (Fla.)
  • Subseries 21: Sarasota County (Fla.)

Series 2: Transportation and Communication Maps: General. Includes railroad maps, atlas pages, fire insurance maps, military site maps.

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 3: Transportation and Communication Maps: Nautical Charts

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 4: Economic Geography: Land Ownership Maps/ Plat maps

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 5: Human and cultural geography. Includes historical resource maps, maps drawn by people, pictorial maps, tourist maps, recreation maps.

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 6: Political geography. Includes administrative and political divisions, CRA maps, tax divisions

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 7: Technology, Engineering, Public Works. Includes utility maps, traffic count maps, canal maps

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.

Series 8: Physical Sciences. Includes hydrogeology, geological surveys, water composition and quality, drainage basins, soils, meteorology, paleontology and archeology.

  • Subseries 1: Boynton Beach
  • Subseries 2: Palm Beach County
  • Subseries 3: Florida
  • Subseries 4: Eastern U.S.
  • Subseries 5: U.S.