Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Alabama Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Alabama Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2004
LastUpdated 2007-04-18
Descriptive Metadata
Title Alabama Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Alabama Historical Counties. Data Set. Laura Rico-Beck, digital comp. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, ed. by John H. Long. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2007. Available online from http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp.
Creator.PersonalName Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address sinkop@newberry.org
Subject Alabama Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Alabama from the creation of the first one to the end of 2000.  Separate polygon for each version of a county in shapefile format, including attribute table, plus database, supplemental chronologies, bibliography, etc., in textual form.
Publisher The Newberry Library
Publisher.Address http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp
Contributor.PersonalName Rico-Beck, Laura, GIS Specialist, digital compiler
Contributor.PersonalName.Address ricobeckl@newberry.org
Contributor.PersonalName Long, John H., editor
Contributor.PersonalName.Address longj@newberry.org
Date 2007
Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Format.Size 663 polygons, 11.268 MB
Source Laws of Alabama and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -91.75012
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -84.888247
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 35.008029
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 30.149892
Coverage.t.early 1785-02-07
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Alabama
Coverage.Spatial.Resolution 1:100,000
Coverage.Spatial.Georeference County
Coverage.Temporal.Interval 1 day
Coverage.AlternativeMetadata See Full FGDC Metadata here
Rights Free access/download and use under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License (www.newberry.org/ahcbp)