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Newark Wards

Ward & Election District Map: City of Newark, Essex County, N.J.
January 12, 2022
Newark Wards 2012
From Newark Open Data. Includes shapefiles for doing more advanced mapping work in GIS programs like ArcGIS, QGIS and CartoDB.
2001 Newark Wards Maps
Newark Ward Boundaries (2000)
1991 Newark Ward Map
1992 Newark Ward Map
1988 Newark Ward Map
1986 Newark Ward Map
1982 Newark Ward Maps
1973 Newark Ward Maps
1969 Newark Ward Maps
1962 Newark Ward Map
1954 Newark Ward Map
1953 Newark Ward Map
1944 The City of Newark [Ward Map]
1934 Newark Ward Map
1933 Newark Ward Map

Newark Wards, 1930

1913 Ward Boundaries
Map of the City of Newark
1908 street map, including ward divisions and proposed streets
Holbrook's Map of the City of Newark (1881)
Holbrook's Map of the City of Newark, 1879
Newark, A.S. Holbrook's Printing Office, 1879.
Street map hand colored to show wards and ward numbers.
Holbrook's Map of the City of Newark, 1878
Newark, A.S. Holbrook's Printing Office, 1878.
Street map hand colored to show wards and ward numbers.
Holbrook's Map of the City of Newark, 1876
Newark, A.S. Holbrook's Printing Office, 1876.
Street map hand colored to show wards and ward numbers.
Holbrook's Map of the City of Newark, 1875
Newark, A.S. Holbrook's Printing Office, 1875.
Street map hand colored to show wards and ward numbers.
Newark, circa 1874
Bird's eye view. Tthe Library of Congress Panoramic Maps series.
1873 Map
Combined Atlas of the State of New Jersey and the City of Newark : From Actual Surveys & Private Plans
Griffith Morgan Hopkins. Engraved by Edward Busch. Philadelphia, G.M. Hopkins & Co., 1873.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCNJF G1383 .N532H Available?
1872 Map of the City of Newark
F.W. Beers map from the 1872 State Atlas of New Jersey.
1860 Newark City and Map of West Orange
Newark, circa 1859
Street map hand colored to show wards and war numbers. Stephen Dod for B.T. Pierson's Newark Directory.
Newark 1853
Shows each ward.

Zoning Maps

Zoning Map (Current)
With links to zoning descriptions.
Land Use Plan - City of Newark - Master Plan 1964
Map of Existing Zoning Districts
1959
Map of the City of Newark Showing Building Zones 1940
Residential, business, and industrial zones. From the NPL Digital Collection.

Newark Tax Maps

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