The geographic focus of the HCC Maps Collection is Northwestern California, including towns, timber lands, railroad lines, waterways, and mines. Maps range in subject matter and purpose: coastal surveys, environmental inventories and analyses, geologic studies including earthquakes and landslides, public lands, maritime activities including shipwrecks, flood insurance and Sanborn maps, topographic and orthophotoquad maps.

Notable cartographers and map publishers include: Lentell; Doolittle; Forbes; Denny; Herrick; Belcher; Metsker; Susie Baker Fountain; Alderon Laird; Norman Smith; USGS; etc.

420 maps in database plus approximately 10 series

Copyright has not been assigned to Humboldt State University. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce in any format, please contact the Special Collections Librarian.

The collection is open for research.