Hammond Map or Hammond World Atlas Corporation is an American map

Map

A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes....

 company. It was formerly an operating subsidiary of The Langenscheidt Publishing Group

Langenscheidt

Langenscheidt is a privately held German publishing company, specialising in language resource literature. As well as producing monolingual dictionaries, Langenscheidt also produces bilingual dictionaries and travel phrase-books, as well as maps and atlases....

, a major map publisher in the United States, but was sold to Universal Map, an affiliate of Kappa Publishing Group

Kappa Publishing Group

Kappa Publishing Group, Inc. is a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania based publishing company concentrating on adult puzzle books and magazines as well as children's magazines and maps. It is a private company founded in 1955 with $11.5 million in annual sales....

, in 2010.

The company was founded in 1900 in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

New York

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 by Caleb Stillson Hammond, who had previously headed Rand McNally

Rand McNally

Rand McNally is an American publisher of maps, atlases, textbooks, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data...

's New York City office since 1894. It was formally incorporated in 1901 as C. S. Hammond & Co. and moved to Manhattan

Manhattan

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. It soon relocated to a warehouse in Maplewood, New Jersey

Maplewood, New Jersey

Maplewood is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 23,867.-History:...

that was near Hammond's family home. During its heyday in 1950s and 1960s it was second only to Rand McNally. The company was privately owned by the Hammond family until its assets were acquired by Langenscheidt Publishers Inc. in 1999.