Certified Sanborn® Map Report

EDR’s Sanborn® Map service provides fire insurance map search results based on a search of the complete holdings of the original Sanborn Library, which dates from 1866 and includes over 1.2 million Sanborn Maps. This essential Phase I historical information source tracks the changing landscape and property uses of approximately 12,000 American cities and towns since the late 19th century.

Since its acquisition of the Sanborn Map Company's collection in 1996, EDR has revolutionized the fire insurance map research process. The original Sanborn collection has been digitized and can be searched from your desktop through EDR's Web site. EDR's Sanborn Search Engine is the only system that searches the Sanborn Library collection using latitude and longitude and provides instant, site-specific search results.

In May 2007, EDR introduced important new enhancements to its Sanborn® Map reports. EDR has made these improvements as part of our continuing commitment to provide you with the most comprehensive environmental due diligence tools backed by the highest-quality information and fastest turnaround time in the industry.

There is no price change associated with these enhancements, and EDR’s clients who order Sanborn Maps will automatically begin receiving the enhanced Certified Sanborn® Map Reports with their next order.

These latest enhancements to EDR’s Sanborn Map service include:

• New, high-resolution scans of every map in the Sanborn Library. EDR has invested in rescanning each of the more than 1.2 million maps in the Sanborn Library. The result is that you will be able to see more detail--and extract more valuable information--than ever before.

• A unique certification number that can be used to validate your search. The number, located on the cover page, search results summary page, and the maps themselves in every Certified Sanborn Map Report, assures you and your customers that you have conducted a search of Sanborn Library, the largest and most comprehensive collection of Sanborn Maps, and that you are licensed to reproduce the map images in your report. (Sanborn Maps obtained from EDR authorized resellers will receive the same certification benefits.)

All the other features of EDR’s Sanborn Map service remain in place. Search by latitude/longitude; order and receive maps online; review instant map coverage results; use our Same-Day Sanborns! service to get your Sanborn Maps within one business day; and receive up to twenty Sanborn Maps covering your target property with each order.

To learn more about the Certified Sanborn Map Report, contact your EDR representative.

Certified Sanborn® Map (click to enlarge)

Sanborn Map Key with symbols and abbreviations.

Certified Sanborn® Map Report verification.

EDR Aerial Photo Decade Package

EDR has one of the nation's largest collections of historical aerial photography. EDR's Aerial Photo Decade Package provides digitally reproduced historical aerial photographs and includes one photo per decade.

• scales range from 1" = 750' to
  1" = 1,000'
• high quality resolution
• date from 1930's to present
• one photo per decade

Online delivery in select states.

EDR Aerial Photo Search

EDR has indexed several hundred private and public aerial photography sources across the country and is able to provide searches back to the 1930's.

• flight date
• scale
• source
• shipping time for each photo
  

 
Aerial Photo

EDR City Directory Abstract

The EDR City Directory Abstract, prepared by EDR research professionals located throughout the United States, provides detailed historical city directory information for a property and its surrounding area at five year intervals. Published for United States cities and towns since the 18th century, city directories identify the property name and use, e.g., gas stations, dry cleaners, etc.

• date back to the 1800s
  
• changes in land use
  
• property name and use
  
• site specific

Combine with our EDR Fire Insurance Map Abstract. When produced together, the resources complement each other to provide a complete history of a property.

EDR Multi-Tenant Retail Facility Report

The EDR Multi-Tenant Retail Facility Report helps you meet the difficult challenge of identifying potential environmental issues at a shopping center by listing prior occupants, i.e., gas stations, dry cleaners, etc.

• Search of EDR's proprietary databases
• List retail tenants back to opening date of facility as early as 1957
• Nationwide coverage for nearly all retail centers and malls

EDR Historical Topographic Maps

EDR's Historical Topographic Map Report includes a search of public and private color historical topographic map collections throughout the United States by EDR's professional research team.

• date back to early 1900s
• changes in land use
• geological information
• potential environmental concerns
• color reproductions

Historical Topographic Map

Chain of Title Search

Available nationwide - contact your EDR account executive.

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