The Owen Library contains many maps and atlases for students and faculty, including US Geological Survey topographic maps, US Forest Service maps, and National Park service maps. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website, please contact Owen Library Reference and a librarian will assist you.

GIS Facilities

• See a separate set of GIS resources and services pages available through the Libraries.

Library Catalog

GRIFFIN Library Catalog includes the holdings for the WSU Libraries, in Pullman and across the state. Please note: Electronic journals and other 'virtual' publications are included in the catalog. The library is also a member of the Summit Catalog, a union catalog that allows students and faculty at WSU to search for and borrow books owned by 33 libraries in Oregon and Washington at no cost to the library user. There are over 27 million items in the Summit Catalog.

Owen Map Room, 3rd floor

• Maps are indexed in the GRIFFIN Library Catalog. From the Griffin main page, click on the button for "advanced search." From the advanced search page it is possible to limit your search to "MAP/GIS DATA." You may also want to restrict your search to location "WSU Owen."
• USGS Topographic Maps are available for 12 western states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.  Indices for these states are available in the Map Room, and the Index to USGS Topographic Maps is also available online.
• 7.5 minute series
• 15 minute series
• 1:100,000 series
• 1:125,000 scale
• 1:250,000 scale
• United States maps
• Historical Washington topographic maps
• U.S.G.S. topographic maps for other U.S. states (various sizes)
• U.S. National Park Service maps
• U.S. Forest Service maps
• Geology maps
• Bathymetric maps
• World maps

Owen Reference-Atlases, 1st Floor

The Owen Reference-Atlas collection is located on the first floor near the entrance to the Library.   Additional atlases can be found in Owen Reference, in the Owen general collection, and in the Owen Atlas collection on the third floor.

• Rand McNally Commercial atlas & marketing guide
Owen Ref-Atlas G1019 .R3 2005
• Oxford Atlas of the World
Owen Ref-Atlas G1021. A7545 1997
• National Geographic atlas of the world
Owen Ref-Atlas G1021 .N38 2005
• The Times atlas of the world : tenth comprehensive edition
Owen Ref-Atlas G1021 .T5644 1999
• The Times of London concise atlas of the world
Owen Ref-Atlas G1021 .T57 2000
• Rand McNally Road atlas: United States, Canada, and Mexico
Owen Ref-Atlas G1201.P2 R348 1999
• Idaho atlas & gazetteer: back roads, BLM, State lands, GPS grids
Owen Ref-Atlas G1480 .D45 2002
• Washington atlas & gazetteer: detailed topographic maps, back roads, outdoor recreation
Owen Ref-Atlas G1485 .D4 2002
• Arctic environmental atlas
Owen Ref-Atlas TD196 .R3 C73x 1999
• Cruising atlas: Columbia , Snake and Willamette Rivers
Owen Ref-Atlas VK995 C6 C7

Selected Owen Reference Items, 1st Floor

• Cartographic citations: a style guide
Owen Reference GA 108.7 .C53x 1992
• Guide to U.S. map resources
Owen Reference GA193.U5 C62 1986
• Practical handbook of digital mapping : terms and concepts
Owen Reference GA139 .P73 1994
• Washington State place names
Owen Reference F889 .P47 1971

Map Resources Online

• American Memory Map Collections, 1500 to the present: from the Library of Congress
• Alexandria Digital Library Project:  a consortium of researchers, developers, and educators, spanning the academic, public, and private sectors, exploring a variety of problems related to a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information.
• Association of American Geographers: Cartography Specialty Group and GIS Specialty Group
• The Atlas of Canada
• British Oceanographic Data Center
  
• The David Rumsey Map Collection: an online collection of 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials including atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript maps.
• Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing: from University of California, Berkeley Library.
• Digital State Geologic Maps: from USGS
• Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection: developed by Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections department of the WSU Libraries and the University of Washington Map Library.
• Geologic Maps of Western States: online geologic maps from the USGS
• Geographic Names Information System: a database of USA and Antarctic geographic feature names
• GEONet Names Server: a database of foreign (non-USA and Antarctica) geographic feature names
• Geospatial One Stop: geographic data from geodata.gov
• Google Earth: a free download providing geographic information for the entire planet, including satellite images and maps.
• Historic Map Index
• INSIDE Idaho: Interactive Numeric & Spatial Information Data Engine, providing geospatial data for the state of Idaho.
• Map Cataloging Manual: from the Library Corporation and the Library of Congress
• Map History/History of Cartography
  
• Map Projections: a description of the different types of map projections, from USGS
• Maps and Plans: a guide to using maps and plans, from the University of Nottingham
• MapTech Mapserver: a free online mapping resource for topographic maps and charts for land, sea, and air.
• NASA Earth Observatory
• National Atlas: the National Atlas of the United States, produced by U.S. Geological Survey
• National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis: from the National Science Foundation General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Digital Atlas from NOAA
• National Geologic Map Database
• The National Map: an interactive map service from USGS
• Odden's Bookmarks: more than 22,000 cartographic links
• Ordinance Survey: Britain's national mapping agency
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Prism: providing access to spatial climate data sets
  
• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain: The Union of Two Maps - Geology and Topography: from the USGS Virtual Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
• Terraserver: locate places in the U.S. and around the world using USGS topos and aerial photos.
• Topozone: provides all USGS topographic maps for the U.S. online
• United Nations Cartographic Section
• USGS Board on Geographic Names: find the USGS quadrangle name or search by other geographical criterion.
• The World FactBook: Produced by the CIA.

Other Map and Cartographic Resources

For information about other map holdings at WSU, see Maps and Atlases in Holland and Terrell Libraries or the Historical Maps Collection in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections