Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA: Mississippi Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Mississippi Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2007
LastUpdated 2007-12-27
Descriptive Metadata
Title Mississippi Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Mississippi 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 from http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp.
Creator.PersonalName Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address sinkop@newberry.org
Subject Mississippi Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Mississippi 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 487 polygons, 9.781 MB
Source Laws of Mississippi and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -91.778719
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -84.726983
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 35.049252
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 30.057982
Coverage.t.early 1785-02-07
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Mississippi
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)