Same Streets

Old Maps

12 survey maps, 1894–1919, drawn when the archive's stories were news. Find your town on the map below, then slide between its streets then and now.

Each box is the ground one survey covers. Choose one to open it.

  1. 1894Seattle10,048 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  2. 1895Snohomish10,969 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  3. 1897Tacoma3,012 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  4. 1899Ellensburg643 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  5. 1901Spokane352 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  6. 1903Snoqualmie110 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  7. 1910Pullman239 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  8. 1911Mount Vernon731 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  9. 1913Wenatchee54 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  10. 1916Chehalis160 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  11. 1917Pasco994 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)

  12. 1919Walla Walla970 stories on this mapCompare then & now →

    Its stories on the archive mapUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain)