Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas
The Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas is designed for subject indexing of legislation, photographs, and other documents in the City Clerk's Office and Seattle Municipal Archives. It provides a way to increase consistency in the way geographic names are used and to allow precise retrieval of documents concerning neighborhoods. It is not designed or intended as an "official" City of Seattle neighborhood map. There are many different ideas of what neighborhoods exist in Seattle and what their names are, but the purpose of this atlas is to define neighborhood names and boundaries in a way that improves document indexing and retrieval.
Sources for this atlas and the neighborhood names used in it include a 1980 neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development, Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Research for the development of this map was done by Carol Shenk, Laurie Pollack, and Ernie Dornfeld. Anne Frantilla is responsible for organizing production of the GIS-based version of the neighborhood map. The map in this form was produced with generous assistance from Seattle Public Utilities. Chris Neman developed the online version of the Neighborhood Map Atlas.