Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA: Kentucky Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
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DatasetTitle Kentucky Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2007
LastUpdated 2007-04-18
Descriptive Metadata
Title Kentucky Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle DenBoer, Gordon. Kentucky Historical Counties. Data Set. Emily Kelley, 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 DeBoer, Gordon, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address c/o The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610
Subject Kentucky Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Kentucky 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 Kelley, Emily, digital compiler
Contributor.PersonalName.Address kelleye@newberry.org
Contributor.PersonalName Long, John H., editor
Contributor.PersonalName.Address longj@newberry.org
Date 2007
Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Format.Size 646 polygons, 19.000 MB
Source Laws of Kentucky and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -89.57151
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -77.618728
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 40.638802
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 36.497129
Coverage.t.early 1735-01-01
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Kentucky Historical Counties
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)