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Maps of Bloomington Indiana

Bloomington City Government creates maps of all sorts. You can learn about everything from long range city development plans to what day you should put out your garbage.

• GIS Department. Contains links to many of the below plus a nice description of what GIS is. For an example of a practical GIS application they provide, try entering your Bloomington city address into MyBloomington, a tool that provides information about services for and points of interest around any city location. Take a look at the entry for the Wells Library.
• Map Gallery. Maps on topics including transportation, politics, economic and physical development, recreation, city services, and volunteering. Also included are GIS data and tile maps and information on how to order paper copies of maps.
• Interactive Map. Find fire hydrants, bus routes, census blocks, and more. For the city of Bloomington only.
• Planning Department. Their reports usually contain detailed maps. Topics include: zoning, transportation, development, environment, and long range planning.
• City Planning Maps. Includes jurisdiction, growth policy, transportation planning, and zoning maps.
• Neighborhood & Corridor Plans.
• Growth Policies Plan.

Other Bloomington maps.

• Bloomington Changes: How Historical Aerial Photos Can Be Used to Create Snapshots of a Community Through Time. By Chris Walls, Denver Harper, and Chris Dintaman. Indiana Geological Survey.Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Bloomington, IN.
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Guide to what and where they are. Fascinating set of detailed city maps from the 1800s to the 1980s. Available to IU Bloomington users in black and while online through Digital Sanborn Maps (about) and on microfilm in ET2 (G1401 .G475 S3 1993).
• Paper maps are housed in East Tower 2. You can find them by searching IUCat or having a look at our Indiana Maps Collection.

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Maps of Indiana University

• Indiana University, Bloomington (11"x17" pdf)
• Campus map Indiana University Bloomington. Interactive map of the above can help you locate buildings and find out what their IU and city addresses are.
• Campus images from the University Architects Office. Includes maps, aerial photos and other images from all IU campuses.
• Paper maps are housed in East Tower 2. You can find them by searching IUCat.
• For historical maps, consult the Bulletin of Indiana University, available in IU Reference of the 1st floor of the Wells Library (LD2507.5 .A2). You can also consult the staff in the University Archives.

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Maps of Monroe County Indiana

• Monroe County GIS. Interactive map on Monroe county provides information about Monroe County properties. Also has handy measuring and printing features.
• Paper maps are housed in East Tower 2. You can find them by searching IUCat.
• Monroe County Maps. List of maps housed at the Indiana State Library. Part of the Indiana County Maps, Atlases and Plat Books.
• Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900, Robert W. Karrow, Jr., ed. Lists early printed maps. East Tower 2, Maps Reference (Z6027.M63 C5).
• Groundwater Assessment Maps. From the Indiana State Department of Natural Resources. Other counties also available.

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Maps of Indiana

• IndianaMap. Interactive map contains demographic, infrastructure, environmental, hydrological, geological, and topographic information. Also, aerial photography between 1998 and 2008.
• State GIS Department.
• Election Division, Statistics and Maps.
• Indiana School Districts and Cross-County Libraries.
• Indiana Department of Transportation Maps. Maps of major Indiana cities, INDOT District/Subdistrict maps, Indiana State Map, Indiana Radar Map, and the Indiana Satellite Map. Includes maps of Anderson, Bloomington, Calumet, Columbus, Evansville, Falls City Area, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Lafayette, Michigan City, Muncie, Richmond, South Bend, Terre Haute, and Vincennes.
• Department of Natural Recourses (DNR). Maps of fish and wildlife areas, lake depths, and where to hunt and fish.
• Indiana Maps Collection. Our historic maps page.