Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  South Dakota Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle South Dakota Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2006
LastUpdated 2007-04-16
Descriptive Metadata
Title South Dakota Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck, and Deborah Skok. South Dakota 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 Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address sinkop@newberry.org
Creator.PersonalName Skok, Deborah, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address skok@hendrix.edu
Subject South Dakota Historical State and County Boundaries.  N.B.  The datafiles for North and South Dakota and for Dakota Territory have been grouped together for dissemination.
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in South Dakota 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 145 polygons, 1.196 MB
Source Laws of South Dakota and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -104.05774
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -96.43659
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 45.945455
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 42.479636
Coverage.t.early 1889-11-02
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName South Dakota
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)