Hammond Map or Hammond World Atlas Corporation is an American
map
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Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although ...
company. It was formerly an operating subsidiary of the
Langenscheidt
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Publishing Group, a major map publisher in the United States, but was sold to
Universal Map
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, an affiliate of
Kappa Publishing Group
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, in 2010. Langenscheidt retained the rights to Hammond Publishing products.
The company was founded in 1900 in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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by Caleb Stillson Hammond, who had previously headed
Rand McNally
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's New York City office since 1894. It was formally incorporated in 1901 as C. S. Hammond & Co. and moved to
Manhattan
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. It soon relocated to a warehouse in
Maplewood, New Jersey
Maplewood is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is an inner-ring suburban bedroom community of New York City in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's populatio ...
that was near Hammond's family home.
During its heyday in 1950s and 1960s, it was second only to Rand McNally, which made a point of refusing to include Maplewood in any of the company's maps. Until the advent of digital mapping from
Google Earth
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predecessor
Keyhole
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in the mid-2000s, it provided the mapping technology for
CNN
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,
Headline News
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and CCN (
Columbia High School (New Jersey)
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's Television Network).
The company was privately owned by the Hammond family until its assets were acquired by Langenscheidt Publishers Inc. in 1999.
References
External links
USA Map by Hammond & Co
Map companies of the United States
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