Vault Contents
Maps in the Records Vault include:
- Engineering quarter section maps, new (GIS computer-generated) and old (mylar)
- Aerial topography maps, new and old
- Sewerage and drainage topography maps
- Basemaps
- Various City maps, including the 1:400 scale maps and the Vault Plan Index (VPI) original mylars
Publications in the Records Vault include:
- City of Seattle Standard Specifications, current and previous editions
- City of Seattle Standard Plans, current and previous editions
- Geotechnical soil boring, piling and slide reports on microfilm
- Henry Fitch / Works Progress Administration (WPA) drainage and landslide reports and associated fieldbooks
- Published City of Seattle ordinances
Indexes in the Records Vault include:
- Aerial photograph indexes
- Basemap indexes, geographic and card file
- Capital Improvement Plan and private contract construction plans
- Inspector’s (Resident Engineer) notes
- Reports notebooks
- Geotechnical soil boring, piling and slide reports indexes on the VPI miscellaneous pages
- King County plat books and condominium plat indexes, computer printout (showing the unrecorded plats) and card file
- Offsite records storage notebook
- Pre-1968 Capital Improvement Plan Construction plan card file
- SEATRAN Roadway Structures listing for bridges, retaining walls and stairways
- Survey field book index card files
- Vault Plan Index (VPI), electronic and manual (Plan Register book and the ledger books)
- Water books, including two computer printout indexes listing projects outside the City of Seattle limits or projects not found in the VPI
Survey information in the Records Vault includes:
- Fieldbooks
- Full section and 1/16th maps
- Quarter section calculation sheets
- Right-of-way files
- King County plat books
- Various shoreland and tideland maps
Plans in the Records Vault include:
- Capital Improvement Plan construction plans
- Private contact construction plans
- METRO, King County, or State of Washington plans that impact City of Seattle public rights-of-way
- Inspector’s (Resident Engineer) books
- Plans for projects outside City of Seattle limits
Aerial Photographs in the Vault
The Records Vault contains aerial photographs of Seattle from the following years:
- 1993
- 1970
- 1965
- 1960
- 1952
- 1946
- 1936
- 1934 (incomplete)
- 1929 (incomplete)