Historic maps

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps were drawn town by town for fire-insurance underwriters, block by block and building by building, and revised every few years as a town grew or shrank. They are public domain. Five Blackland towns are here, from the Library of Congress: Blooming Grove, Frost, Hubbard, Kerens and Rice, the earliest sheet from 1888 and the latest from 1935.

By town

Blooming Grove

5 editions, 1900–1934 · 24 sheets

Frost

4 editions, 1898–1915 · 8 sheets

Hubbard

7 editions, 1888–1935 · 25 sheets

Kerens

1 edition, 1921 · 13 sheets

Rice

2 editions, 1921–1935 · 10 sheets

The county

Navarro County, 1924

General Land Office, Austin, July 1924 · every original land grant

Maps from the Library of Congress, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection. Public domain. County map: Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence.