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Urban Transition Historical GIS Project: 1880

Urban Transition Historical GIS Project
Newark is one of 39 U.S. cities included in Urban Transition Historical GIS Project that maps detailed enumeration district level data from the 1880 Census.
Birds of a Feather: Social Bases of Neighborhood Formation in Newark, New Jersey, 1880
John R. Logan and Hyoung-jin Shin. Demography 53, 2016, pp.1085-1108
The Co-evolution of Residential Segregation and the Built Environment at the Turn of the 20th Century: A Schelling Model
Seth Spielman and Patrick Harrison. Transactions in GIS 18(1), 2014, pp. 25-45.
Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using Child Mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
Hongwei Xu, John R. Logan, and Susan E. Short. Demography April, 2014.
"Measuring Ethnic Clustering and Exposure with the Q Statistic: An Exploratory Analysis of Irish, Germans, and Yankees in 1880 Newark"
Antonio Paez et al. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(1), January 2012, 84-102. Rutgers-restricted Access

Newark Maps and Atlases: Through the 19th Century

Historical Map of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1916
Compiled for the 250th celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E., August 1916, revised January 1918.
Maps of the City of Newark, 1666-1915
43 maps from the collection of the Newark Public Library, digitized as part of a "Mapping Newark" project (2002-2003) funded by the New Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers University.
Newark Mountain circa 1696.
Map. Reconstruction (2005) of land holdings and roads for a portion of what was then Newark Township by Charles T. McGrath.
Newark Mountain: Third Division of Land Circa 1696 A.D..
Charles T. McGrath Jr. 2005.
Documentation for the above.
1764 Ball Map of the Newark Mountain Purchase Claim
Copy: of a Map made by Thomas Ball of the New Ark Mountain Purchase Claim Done in 1764. [inscription]
Newark about 1776
From the Newark Public Library Digital Collection
Map of Newark and East Newark, N.J. From the Most Authentic Surveys
1836. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Map of Essex County, New Jersey: With the Names of Property Holders, &c.
Newark, H.A. Belding, 1850.
Inset of Newark with index.
Map of Building Lots Belonging to the Smith & Alling Land Co. Situated in the 5th Ward of the City of Newark
Newark, N.J., Dunn & Thompson, Surveyors, March 1851.
Map of the City of Newark, N.J., 1858
Made by Dunn & Thompson, Surveyors. From the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Newark, circa 1859
Street map hand colored to show wards and war numbers. Stephen Dod for B.T. Pierson's Newark Directory.
1872 Map of the City of Newark
F.W. Beers map from the 1872 State Atlas of New Jersey.
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?
Newark, circa 1874
Bird's eye view. Zoomable map from the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps series.
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.
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, 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, 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 (1881)
Newark, circa 1895
Bird's eye view. Zoomable map from the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps series. See detail of the area where Rutgers-Newark is now located.
Devine's Newark City Street Guide
Terence Devine.. Newark, N.J., 1886
Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey: From Official Records, Private Plans & Actual Surveys
Scarlett and Scarlett. Newark, N.J., 1889
37 detailed maps. Includes information on land owners and building materials
Map of the City of Newark, 1899
Street map.
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