| Atlas
of Historical County Boundaries |
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| SUMMARY
METADATA: Massachusetts Historical
Counties |
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| After
ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core. |
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| Connection
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| DatasetTitle |
Massachusetts Historical
Counties |
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| DatasetType |
vector digital data |
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| ServerType |
W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat
5.0 |
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| CreationDate |
2010 |
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| LastUpdated |
2010-02-12 |
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| Descriptive
Metadata |
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| Title |
Massachusetts Historical
Counties |
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| Citation.PreferredStyle |
Long, John H. Massachusetts
Historical Counties. Data Set. Laura Rico-Beck,
digital comp. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, ed. by John H. Long.
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2010. Available online from
http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp. |
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| Creator.PersonalName |
Long, John H., historical
compiler |
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| Subject |
Massachusetts Historical State
and County Boundaries |
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| Description |
Compilation of all changes in
the size, shape, and location of all counties in Massachusetts 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. |
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| Publisher |
The
Newberry Library |
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| Publisher.Address |
http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp |
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| Contact.Address |
scholl@newberry.org |
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| Contributor.PersonalName |
Rico-Beck, Laura, digital compiler |
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| Contributor.PersonalName |
Long, John H., editor |
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| Date |
2010 |
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| Type |
Dataset |
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| Format |
Shapefile |
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| Format.Size |
205 polygons, 40.786 MB |
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| Source |
Laws of Massachusetts and other
sources listed in bibliography |
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| Language |
eng |
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| Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate |
-73.521416 |
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| Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate |
-66.949426 |
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| Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate |
47.459687 |
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| Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate |
41.146249 |
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| Coverage.t.early |
1629-03-04 |
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| Coverage.t.late |
2000-12-31 |
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| Coverage.PlaceName |
Massachusetts |
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| Coverage.Spatial.Resolution |
1:100,000 |
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| Coverage.Spatial.Georeference |
County |
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| Coverage.Temporal.Interval |
1 day |
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| Coverage.AlternativeMetadata |
See Full FGDC Metadata
here |
| Rights |
Free access/download and use
under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License
(www.newberry.org/ahcbp) |
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