Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  California Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle California Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2004
LastUpdated 2007-04-16
Descriptive Metadata
Title California Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck. California Historical Counties. Data Set. Laura Rico-Beck, digital comp. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, ed. by John H. Long. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2004. Available online from http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp.
Creator.PersonalName Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address sinkop@newberry.org
Subject California Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in California 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 2004
Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Format.Size 347 polygons, 13.398 MB
Source California Statutes, other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -124.409591
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -114.131212
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 42.009519
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 32.534157
Coverage.t.early 1850-02-18
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName California
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)