Maps

The links below lead to digitized maps or atlas pages covering Watertown that the library keeps on the statewide Digital Commonwealth site. There, you will find publication information, descriptions, and (in some cases) dimensions and scale.

17^th Century

• 1687 – Nonsuch Map

18^th Century

• 1720 – Watertown, Residences
• 1794 – Watertown and Waltham

19^th Century

• 1829 – Water Privilege at Watertown Bridge
• 1830 – Watertown from June 1830 Survey
• 1850 – Map of Watertown (The library’s copy of this map, which is about 28 inches wide, has been professionally preserved and framed. It hangs in the hallway outside the Watertown Savings Bank Room, on the first floor, alongside an even larger 1874 map.)
• 1851 – Plan of Land in Watertown owned by heirs of Mr. Abijah White
• 1853 – Plan of Watertown
• 1855-60 – Original Allotments of Land
• 1858 – Estate of Dr. Eliakim Morse
• 1879 – Bird’s Eye View of Watertown 1879
• 1889 – Map of Watertown in 5 Parts
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
• 1890 – Middlesex County
• 1894 – Plan of Charles River from the Waltham Line to Boston Harbor
• 1895 – Plan of West Watertown
• 1898 – Map of Watertown in 10 Parts
  • Index
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8
  • Part 9
  • Part 10
• 1898 – Property of the heirs of Alvin Adams Fairlawn Estate

20^th Century

• 1902 – Charles River Basin Contour Map of Upper Basin and Lower Basin
• 1908 – Map of the Charles River Valley Between South Natick and Tide Water
• 1908 – Map of the Charles River Valley between the source and South Natick
• 1920 – Map of Waltham and Watertown
• 1924 – Ministerial Land Map
• 1924 – Subdivision of the Boyle Farm
• 1925 – Map of Watertown
• 1930 – Historical Map of Watertown
• 1931 – Map of Watertown Compiled from Former Surveys
• 1935 – Zoning Map of Watertown
• 1940-49 – Hood Rubber Company
• 1945 – Map of Watertown
• 1948 – Zoning Map of Watertown
• 1953 – Map of Watertown
• 1956 – Watertown Arsenal Master Allocation Plan
• 1965 – Map of Watertown, 1953 Corrected to 1965
• 1970 – Map of Watertown
• 1971 – Watertown Zoning Map
• 1973 – Map of Watertown
• 1976 – Watertown Zoning Map
• 1977 – Map of Watertown
• 1979 – Zoning Map of Watertown
• 1984 – Watertown Zoning Map
• 1986 – Chamber of Commerce Map
• 1987 – Chamber of Commerce Map
• 1992 – Chamber of Commerce Map

21^st Century

• 2000 – Watertown Business Map
• 2019 – Multi-Lingual Resource Maps of Watertown