Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  West Virginia Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle West 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 West Virginia Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle DenBoer, Gordon. West 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 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
Subject West 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 West 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 102 polygons, 2.384 MB
Source Laws of West Virginia and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -82.644739
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -77.71903
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 40.638802
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 37.201483
Coverage.t.early 1863-06-20
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName WestVirginia 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)