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My old Rand McNally paper street maps of various US cities clearly show the borders of counties, towns/cities and often parts of towns/cities on street level.
When I used many of the online maps that information is missing. It is hard to find the exact border between the LA harbor and the Long Beach Harbor. Same is true if you want to know the exact border if Vernon.
Those are only two examples. Do you know an online US map service that shows that kind of borders of many/most/all US towns on street level?
I'm not sure what you mean by "street level", but the latest version of Google earth (the free download software, NOT the online Google maps) has a bunch of layers that you can turn on or off. Even Mapquest may show some borders. Perhaps one of those two will have what you are looking for.

Another route is the websites of the local governments, if you know what county you are interested in. Many counties and states now have an online GIS map viewer that lets users obtain data from an interactive map format. I would start on the Assessor's website for the county you are interested in and see if they have a map viewer. Or, you may see if the state or county has a cartographer's office.
Kevin, thanks a lot for pointing me to the download Google version. I did try it some time ago and did not like it. I did reinstalled it now and it is greatly improved. The street view capabilities are outstanding! However, I did not see the city borders. Will have another look tomorrow.
I don't know about CA, but most states have a sign. Not always, or even often, a large one. But a small sign of some sort.

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LIke these.

I know in Pennsyvania these are legal definitions. The road my grandparents live on crosses a line between two townships and the snowplows stop at the sign and turn around, leaving a nice little strip of not-plowed.
faraway Wrote:My old Rand McNally paper street maps of various US cities clearly show the borders of counties, towns/cities and often parts of towns/cities on street level.
When I used many of the online maps that information is missing. It is hard to find the exact border between the LA harbor and the Long Beach Harbor. Same is true if you want to know the exact border if Vernon.
Those are only two examples. Do you know an online US map service that shows that kind of borders of many/most/all US towns on street level?

No.

But I know how to use google to find specific information when I need it. The thing you probably are looking for is called "zoning maps".

Association of Southern California governments: http://www.scag.ca.gov/region/


City of Long Beach maps: http://www.lbds.info/planning/advance_pl...aphics.asp
Detailed zoning maps Long Beach: http://www.lbds.info/civica/filebank/blo...lobID=2538


City of Vernon: http://www.vernonchamber.org/
City of Vernon zoning map: http://www.cityofvernon.org/assets/docs/CompZones.pdf


Smile,
Stein
steinjr Wrote:...The thing you probably are looking for is called "zoning maps"...
Yes, that's it 2285_ Should be a good starting point to find that information about most locations in US. Thank you
Reinhard the border between Long Beach Harbor and Los Angeles Harbor are fairly obvious. Terminal Island is in Los Angeles Harbor, so when you cross the Vincent Thomas Bridge, you have left the Long Beach Harbor ad gone into the Los Angeles Harbor. The border between the two East of Terminal Island is not so pronounced, but for modeling purposes, I would treat both harbors as one big harbor. For all intents the Pacific Maritime Association does. In terms of statistics, they are usually listed as the Long Beach/L.A. Harbors, rather than being divided. The only ones who care to divide them are the cities themselves for tax purposes.