Fire insurance maps are distinctivebecause of the sophisticated set of symbols that allows complex information tobe conveyed clearly. In working with insurance maps, it is importan… See more

Fire insurance maps are distinctivebecause of the sophisticated set of symbols that allows … See more

Most editions of fire insurancemaps contained prefatory material that is useful or necessary for interpretingthe maps and which now has historic value in its own right. In par… See more

To the insurance industry, a valuablecomponent of the prefatory material was a description of the fire-fightingequipment and water system of a city or town… See more

The vast majority of fire insurancemaps were drawn at a scale of one inch to fifty feet (1:600) when expressed asa representative fraction. A smaller or less detailed sc… See more