Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Florida Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Florida Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
Creation Date 2000
LastUpdated 2007-04-18
Descriptive Metadata
Title Florida Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck, and Kathryn Ford Thorne. Florida Historical Counties. Data Set. Laura Beck-Rico, 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
Creator.PersonalName Thorne, Kathryn Ford, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address c/o The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610
Subject Florida Historical State and County Boundaries.
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Florida 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 408 polygons, 38.127 MB
Source Laws of Florida, other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -91.664287
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -80.031363
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 32.350058
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 24.544089
Coverage.t.early 1763-10-07
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Florida
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)