Land and the Environment

Graphical materials in the King County Archives document topics such as community planning , Donation Land Claims, drainage, erosion control, farmland preservation, land use, plats, river levees, tidelands and shorelands, topography and zoning.

Environmental maps can also be found in published environmental impact statements, and in reports and studies of the Department of Natural Resources and Parks and the Water and Land Resources Division.

Please contact the Archives with questions, or to schedule a viewing appointment.

		Hand-colored topographical map showing part of drainage district #10 (Snoqualmie River Valley near Duvall), approximately 1920
		Map showing Renton area businesses and land usage , probably 1960s
		Timber cruise map, section 25, township 23, range 5, showing Echo Lake (Lake Desire) area, 1907