Maps of Bloomfield

 

 

 

• Sanborn maps - from Princeton University.  These give you shape and location of houses and sometimes block number then you can look them up at city hall building permits sometimes original blueprints and tax records of property transfers.

• Sanborn maps - from Library of Congress for Bloomfield and Essex County

• Historical Society Map page - a set of historic maps of Bloomfield from the 1906 Mueller Atlas of Essex County

• Interactive map of Bloomfield - from the Township.  Interactive options (accessed from the  left navigation on the page) include:

  • Properties,

  • Properties - Class,

  • Properties - Net Assessed Value,

  • Properties - Last Sale Price,

  • Properties - Vacant,

  • Building Permits,

  • Wards and Districts,

  • FEMA - NFHL. 

• USGenWeb - United States Digital Map Library has useful, readable, high quality maps. Here you will find both archival maps and newly made maps based on scholarly research. This project and all of its strictly volunteer staff are dedicated to free, online access for the general public.

• Atlas of HIstorical County Boundaries (Newberry Library) - New Jersey (has shape files for use with GIS files and KMZ files  for use with Google Earth.  Has an interactive map and individual county chronologies

• HistoryPin - Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories, telling the histories of their local communities.

• WhatWasThere - ties historical photos to Google Maps, allowing you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past.

 

Our Special Collections Dept has some histories of local homes as does the Bloomfield Historical Society.

The Historical Society of Bloomfield's Facebook page is a great place to connect with experts on the history of Bloomfield.