Collection  |  Software, E-Resource Atlas of historical county boundaries

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Title
Atlas of historical county boundaries
Summary
The Atlas is composed of data packaged by state or the collective United States. The state packages are in three formats (52 zipped GIS program files, 52 zipped KMZ files, and 52 zipped PDF files.) The state packages are available for 50 states, Washington DC, and the Dakota Territory. US Historical Counties (1629-2000) is packaged as 5 zipped GIS program files (including Alaska and Hawaii), 6 zipped KMZ files (3 excluding Alaska and Hawaii.) US Historical States & Territories (1783-2000) is packaged as 5 zipped GIS program files (including Alaska and Hawaii), 6 zipped KMZ files (3 excluding Alaska and Hawaii.)
Contributor Names
Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, issuing body.
Long, John Hamilton, editor.
Created / Published
[Chicago, Illinois] : The Newberry Library, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, [2012]
Subject Headings
-  United States--Administrative and political divisions--Maps
-  United States--Historical geography--Maps
-  Counties--United States--Maps
Genre
Digital maps
Vector data
Data sets
Geospatial data
Notes
-  Title from website
-  Downloaded by the Library of Congress on January 8, 2019.
-  "The Atlas is designed to be as comprehensive as possible, leaving no gaps in either space or time. The historical scope covers every day, starting in the early 1600s and extending through the end of the year 2000. Geographically, the range for each state includes all the territory within its bounds in 2000, regardless of what government created or altered a county there, plus any other territory that may have been within the state's jurisdiction at an earlier time." -- Scope.
-  "A project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at The Newberry Library in Chicago, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries is a powerful historical research and reference tool in electronic form. The Atlas presents in maps and text complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. It also includes non-county areas, unsuccessful authorizations for new counties, changes in county names and organization, and the temporary attachments of non-county areas and unorganized counties to fully functioning counties. The principal sources for these data are the most authoritative available: the session laws of the colonies, territories, and states that created and changed the counties."--What is the Atlas.
Medium
Datasets
Call Number/Physical Location
G3701.F7
Repository
s-Online Electronic Resource
Digital Id
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2018487899_state
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2018487899_us
Library of Congress Control Number
2018487899
Rights Advisory
Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. DLC https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ External
Language
English
Online Format
compressed data
Description
The Atlas is composed of data packaged by state or the collective United States. The state packages are in three formats (52 zipped GIS program files, 52 zipped KMZ files, and 52 zipped PDF files.) The state packages are available for 50 states, Washington DC, and the Dakota Territory. US Historical Counties (1629-2000) is packaged as 5 zipped GIS program files (including Alaska and Hawaii), 6 zipped KMZ files (3 excluding Alaska and Hawaii.) US Historical States & Territories (1783-2000) is packaged as 5 zipped GIS program files (including Alaska and Hawaii), 6 zipped KMZ files (3 excluding Alaska and Hawaii.)
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2018487899
Additional Metadata Formats
MARCXML Record
MODS Record
Dublin Core Record

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Chicago citation style:

Dr. William M. Scholl Center For American History And Culture, Issuing Body. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. editeds by Long, John Hamiltonitor [Chicago, Illinois: The Newberry Library, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, 2012] Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018487899/.

APA citation style:

Dr. William M. Scholl Center For American History And Culture, I. B., Long, J. H., ed. (2012) Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. [Chicago, Illinois: The Newberry Library, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture] [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018487899/.

MLA citation style:

Dr. William M. Scholl Center For American History And Culture, Issuing Body. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. ed by Long, John Hamiltonitor [Chicago, Illinois: The Newberry Library, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture, 2012] Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018487899/>.

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