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Nantucket, Massachusetts Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Nantucket, Massachusetts from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Nantucket building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Nantucket, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Nantucket artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Nantucket. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Nantucket brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Nantucket, Massachusetts and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Nantucket map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks36
- Downtown
- Madaket
- Warren Landing
- Fishers Landing
- Cisco
- Smooth Hummocks
- Abnecotants Island
- Abrams Point
- Altar Rock
- Bass Point
- Almanac Pond
- Capaum Pond
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- Middle Moors
- Ram Pasture
- Sanford Farm
- Tom Nevers
- Coskata
- Surfside
- Codfish Park
- Siasconset
- Wauwinet
- Shimmo
- Sesachacha
- Trots Hills
- Quaise
- Long Josephs Point
- Town Pasture
- Polpis
- Quidnet
- Squam
- Monomoy
- Pocomo
- Shallow Pond
- Hoicks Hollow
- Shawkemo
- Mikas Pond
Streets and roads87
- Old South Road
- Sankaty Road
- Milestone Road
- Polpis Road
- Madaket Road
- Eel Point Road
- Hummock Pond Road
- Wauwinet Road
- New South Road
- Tom Nevers Road
- Somerset Road
- Hinsdale Road
- Surfside Road
- Cliff Road
- Miacomet Road
- Quidnet Road
- Russells Way
- Main Street
- Lovers Lane
- Low Beach Road
- Sheep Pond Road
- Coatue Avenue
- South Shore Road
- Orange Street
- Rabbit Run Road
- Boulevarde Road
- Fairgrounds Road
- Skyline Drive
- Hulbert Avenue
- Longwood Drive
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- Daffodil Lane
- Burnell Street
- West Miacomet Road
- Heller Way
- Cato Lane
- Walbang Avenue
- Massasoit Bridge Road
- Almanac Pond Road
- Squam Road
- Red Barn Road
- Altar Rock Road
- Madequecham Valley Road
- Starbuck Road
- Chuckhollow Road
- Vestal Street
- Meadow View Drive
- Rugged Road
- Mizzenmast Road
- Little Neck Way
- Nobadeer Farm Road
- Okorwaw Avenue
- Osprey Way
- Bunker Road
- Long Pond Drive
- Pequot Street
- Kendrick Street
- Waquoit Road
- First Way
- Ahab Drive
- Chase Lane
- Vesper Lane
- Ocean Avenue
- Pocomo Road
- Millbrook Road
- Quaise Pasture Road
- Dump Road Number One
- Bartlett Farm Road
- Swift Rock Road
- Tetawkimmo Drive
- Kelley Road
- Mary Ann Drive
- Wall Street
- Medovie Creek Road
- Wigwam Road
- Capaum Pond Road
- Lyons Lane
- Easton Street
- Somerset Lane
- Cannonbury Drive
- Wannacomet Road
- Ticcoma Way
- Top Gale Lane
- Wanoma Way
- Essex Road
- Fargo Way
- Waquoit
- Coffin Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket is a town of 14,255 people on an island roughly 30 miles below Cape Cod. Together with the smaller islands of Muskeget and Tuckernuck, it is both a town and a county. For thousands of years the island was Wampanoag land, home to as many as three thousand people in bands led by sachems, when Thomas Mayhew secured it as a proprietary colony in 1641. In 1659 Tristram Coffin and a group of investors bought nine-tenths of Mayhew's rights, paying thirty pounds plus two beaver hats, and English settlement began in earnest.
The settlers' first town stood near Capaum Pond, which was then a small harbor. When sand closed its entrance, they took their houses apart and rebuilt them two miles to the northeast, where the town stands today. Incorporated in 1671, the town was called Sherburne until June 8, 1795, when Governor Samuel Adams signed a bill from Micajah Coffin that renamed it the Town of Nantucket.
“Nantucket, to a Nantucketer, is a continent in itself, a nation, a division of the world which asks odds of nobody and is sufficient unto itself.”
- An island of whalersFarming and sheep wore out the island's land, so in 1690 the islanders hired Ichabod Paddock from Cape Cod to teach them whaling. Wampanoag sailors often filled half or more of a ship's crew. When the Revolution began, Nantucket had 150 vessels and 2,025 men at sea. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, began in William H. Geary's hat store and burned some 40 acres of town, and by 1850 New Bedford had passed the island in whaling.
- Neutral in the RevolutionKezia Coffin, sixteen years old, wrote in her diary on April 21, 1775, about shots fired near Boston. About a month later, roughly a hundred Provincial soldiers came ashore and took away fifty or sixty of the island's whaleboats. Trade with Britain kept the island's leaders neutral through the war, and after peace came the Nantucket ship Bedford reached London in 1783 with 487 butts of whale oil, the first ship to fly the American stripes in a British port.
- Camels over the barA sand bar blocked the harbor mouth. The town voted its first Brant Point lighthouse in 1746; the present 1901 tower, the tenth on the point, joined the National Register in 1987. For whale ships too big for the bar, Peter Ewer led the building of the camels in 1842, two floating halves sunk beside a ship, pumped dry and floated across with it. The Peru came in first with her cargo, and the camels were broken up in 1854.
- Captain Absalom BostonAbsalom Boston was born on Nantucket. His father had been enslaved, and his mother was Wampanoag. In 1822 he captained the whale ship Industry with an all-black crew, and he helped found the African Meeting House. In 1845 a public school turned away his daughter Phebe, so Absalom and Hannah, his wife, took the case to court and won, opening the island's public schools to all children.
- Miss Mitchell's CometMaria Mitchell, born on Nantucket in 1818, spent 20 years as the first librarian of the Nantucket Atheneum. In 1847 she discovered a comet that came to carry her name, and later she taught astronomy at Vassar College.
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Nantucket is one of 461 Massachusetts towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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Near Nantucket
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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