Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Wisconsin Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Wisconsin Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2007
LastUpdated 2007-09-25
Descriptive Metadata
Title Wisconsin Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle DenBoer, Gordon. Wisconsin 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 DenBoer, Gordon, historical compiler
Creator.PersonalName.Address c/o The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610
Subject Wisconsin Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Wisconsin 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
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 389 polygons, 24.829 MB
Source Laws of Wisconsin and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -103.128403
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -80.518693
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 49.384359
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 36.970298
Coverage.t.early 1778-12-09
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Wisconsin
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)