Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Virginia Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Virginia 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 Virginia Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle DenBoer, Gordon, and Peggy Tuck Sinko. Virginia 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 DenBoer, Gordon, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address c/o The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610
Creator.PersonalName Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address sinkop@newberry.org
Subject Virginia Historical State and County Boundaries. N.B. The datafiles for Virginia and West Virginia have been grouped together for dissemination.
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Virginia 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 923 polygons, 26.265 MB
Source Laws of Virginia and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -95.228324
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -75.242266
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 49.384359
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 36.497129
Coverage.t.early 1634-12-31
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Virginia
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)