Series 887
Department of Transportation Highway maps
Dates: 1910-
0.20 cubic foot and 1 microfiche set
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Scope and Content
Highway maps contain information pertaining to the types and locations of highways, cities and towns, points of interest, historical sites, state and national parks, lakes and rivers. Maps were issued by the Utah State Road Commission or the Department of Highways until 1975 when the Department of Transportation was created.
While early years reflected the growing need to identify and provide information on roads for automobile drivers, by the late 1930s one of the primary uses of the official highway map was tourism. This is reflected in larger sizes, colorful elements, and photographs (initially in one color, later full color). The postwar period saw a marked increase in tourism as a major industry in Utah. This trend may have reached its zenith with the hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics in branding and tourism materials, including the highway map. It was also at this time that the paper map began to decline in competition to navigation systems powered by GPS.
Holdings for this series are strongest from the 1930s up to about 1990, with a few scattered maps earlier and later. The Information Division of the Department of Highways issued a bound set covering 1923-1963 (see box 1), of which the Archives has three additional copies, in addition to remaining maps not bound (box 2).
Gaps in Series
According to an inventory provided by the agency in 2016, the Archives is missing maps issued in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, and 2013.
Images Available
This series is available on microfilm.
This series is available online as part of the Utah State Archives Digital Archives.
Copies of these records are located at Utah Department of Transportation
Access Restrictions
Microfiche holdings require staff assistance due to fewer reference copies. Handle masters under supervision.
Reproduction and Use
By the agency's request these maps should not be copied in such as way as they could be printed or published to appear to be a current official highway map.
Indexing Terms
Roads--Maps
Tourist maps
BOX | DESCRIPTION |
1 | 1910 |
1 | 1923 |
1 | 1926 |
1 | 1927 |
1 | 1928 |
1 | 1930 |
1 | 1931 |
1 | 1932 |
1 | 1933 |
1 | 1935 |
1 | 1936 |
1 | 1937 |
1 | 1938 - 1949 |
1 | 1939 |
1 | 1940 |
1 | 1941 |
1 | 1945 |
1 | 1947 |
1 | 1948 - 1949 |
1 | 1951 |
1 | 1952 |
1 | 1953 |
1 | 1954 |
1 | 1955 |
1 | 1958 |
1 | 1959 |
1 | 1960 |
1 | 1961 |
1 | 1962 |
1 | 1963 |
2 | 1910 |
2 | 1910 with color annotations |
2 | 1923 |
2 | 1927 |
2 | 1930 |
2 | 1931 |
2 | 1932 Federal Seven Percent System |
2 | 1938 |
2 | 1940 |
2 | 1956 |
2 | 1958 - 1975 |
2 | 1964 |
2 | 1965 - 1975 |
2 | 1966 - 1975 |
2 | 1967 |
2 | 1968 |
2 | 1969 |
2 | 1970 |
2 | 1971 |
2 | 1972 |
2 | 1973 |
2 | 1974 - 1975 |
2 | 1977 |
2 | 1979 |
2 | 1983 |
2 | 1986 |
2 | 1988 |
2 | 1990 |
2 | 1994 |
2 | 2001 |
2 | 2002 |
2 | 2005 |
2 | 2007 |
2 | 2014 |
2 | 2017 |
3 | 1964 - 1975: Duplicate copies |
3 | 1964 Duplicate copies |
3 | 1979 Duplicate copies |
3 | 1986 Duplicate copies |
3 | 2002 Duplicate copies |
3 | 2007 Duplicate copies |
3 | 2017 Duplicate copies (2) |
FICHE-SET | DESCRIPTION |
1 | 1979 Microfiche of highway map split across several frames |