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Maps and More

resources from the regular collections show-and-tell at the Earth Sciences and Map Library

UPDATE - Maps & More featured in UC Berkeley Library News!

What secrets can this Oakland garden reveal?A black and white cat walking through the grass in Oakland's Canticle Farm garden.

The Canticle Farm pop-up exhibit featured on this page was mentioned in a UC Berkeley Library Spring 2024 article. You can read more about the  Earth Sciences & Maps library's involvement plus other library articles on the Library News + Updates webpage.

Click here to read the full article. 

Maps and More! Mapping community engaged scholarship at Canticle Farm, Oakland Mapping community engaged scholarship at Canticle Farm, Oakland

  • Tuesday, May 2, 2022
  • Brief remarks by Geography 50AC students who collaborated with Canticle Farm in Oakland for an American Cultures Engaged Scholarship project at 12:15 PM and 2:15 PM
  • Exhibit open 12 - 4 PM

Over the past two semesters small groups of Geography 50AC students have collaborated with Canticle Farm in Oakland for an American Cultures Engaged Scholarship project. In this special Maps and More pop-up exhibit the students will highlight maps they used to trace the spatial history of the Canticle Farm site in Fruitvale within broader contexts of Bay Region colonization and East Bay metropolitan transformation. Join us!

Real Estate Maps & Indexes

Map of Oakland and vicinity : Alameda, Berkeley, Fruitvale and Piedmont / published by Realty-Bonds and Finance Co.

G4364 .O2A1 1857 .K4, Map Case B 

Real estate atlas of Alameda County, California 

Volume 6:13a & 13a p 

Index available through Digital Collections

Map of Oakland and vicinity / published by the Realty Union 

G4364 .O2 1910 .R42, Map Case B

Available through Digital Collections

Map of the city of Oakland and adjacent territory 

G4364.O2 1914 .R4

Residential security map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro, Piedmont, Emeryville, Albany

G4364.O2E73 1937a .U5, Map Case B

"Residential security map" of East Bay cities. Shows four residential security grades (best, still desirable, definitely declining, hazardous) and related letter-number codes. Indicates risk levels for long-term real estate investment. Residential security maps are often referred to as redlining maps. See catalog entry for more details.

Topographic Maps

Topographic survey [of the coasts of the United States] / U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey

G3700 svar .U5

  • no.T:592:1 & no.T:592:2

Topographic quadrangle maps of California

G3700 svar .U6 CA

  • Oakland East 1980:24K
  • Concord 1897:62K:ng c.2, 
  • Concord 1948:50K:CE c.1

Watershed Maps

Creek & watershed map of Oakland and Berkeley / by Janet M. Sowers, Christopher M. Richard ; historical wetlands research by the San Francisco Estuary Institute (2010)

G4364.O2C3 2010 .S6, Map Case B

Shows the modern hydrology of the Oakland-Berkeley area, including watershed boundaries and the present-day creek and storm drain network. Also shows historical shoreline, tidal marshes, beaches, willow groves, and creeks.

Creek & watershed map of Oakland & Berkeley / by Janet M. Sowers ; historical wetlands research by the Historical Ecology Group of the San Francisco Estuary Institute (2000)

G4364.O2C3 2000 .S6, Map Case B

Watershed map of the Oakland-Berkeley area / by Janet M. Sowers (1993)

G4364.O2C3 1993 .S7, Map Case B

Shows creeks, former creeks, engineered channels, underground culverts, late 1800's marshlands and bodies of water, reservoirs, and watershed boundaries.

General Maps


 Map of the ranchos of Vincente & Domingo Peralta A historical map of Oakland. Shows drainage, block numbers, tracts, railroads, land ownership, radial distances from 14th & Broadway Sts., charter line, etc. Covers also Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, and a portion of Berkeley.

 G4364.O2A1 1857 .K4, Map Case B 

 Plat of the part of the Rancho San Antonio [...] 

 G4362.S18 1871 .P5, Map Case D

 Plan of Rancho de-San-Antonio [...] 

 G4362.S18 1852 .V6 1967, Map Case D

Map of Oakland and vicinity : showing plan of sts. as established & proposed compiled from official surveys & records of the county 

G4364.O2 1868 .B6, Map Case D 

Shows drainage, block numbers, tracts, railroads, land ownership, radial distances from 14th & Broadway Sts., charter line, etc.

Available through Digital Collections