Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Missouri Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Missouri Historical Counties
DatasetType vector digital data
ServerType W2K, IIS 5.0, ArcIMS 9.x, Tomcat 5.0
CreationDate 2010
LastUpdated 2010-02-12
Descriptive Metadata
Title Missouri Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle DenBoer, Gordon. Missouri 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.
Creator.PersonalName DenBoer, Gordon, historical compiler
Subject Missouri Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Missouri 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
Contact.Address scholl@newberry.org
Contributor.PersonalName Rico-Beck Laura, digital compiler
Contributor.PersonalName Long, John H., editor
Date 2010
Type Dataset
Format Shapefile
Format.Size 644 polygons, 17.477 MB
Source Laws of Missouri and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -114.068154
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -89.098843
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 50.043487
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 33.004106
Coverage.t.early 1804-10-01
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Missouri
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)