Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  New Jersey Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle New Jersey Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2005
LastUpdated 2007-04-16
Descriptive Metadata
Title New Jersey Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Long, John H. New Jersey Historical Counties. Data Set. Laura Rico-Beck, digital comp. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, ed. by John H. Long. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2005. Available online from http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp.
Creator.PersonalName Long, John H., historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address longj@newberry.org
Subject New Jersey Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in New Jersey 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 2005
Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Format.Size 124 polygons, 3.76 MB
Source New Jersey Acts, other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -75.55979
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -73.89398
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 41.752445
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 38.92852
Coverage.t.early 1676-07-01
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName New Jersey
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)