Title: Historical United States County Boundaries, 1850
- Polygon data
- 1999
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
- Earle, Carville
- Heppen, John
- Otterstrom, Samuel
- Cao, Changyong
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Department of Geography and Anthropology
Dates
- Issued: 1999
- Coverage: 1850
Publishers
- Geoscience Publications
Summary
This polygon shapefile contains county boundaries for the United States in 1850. Attributes include county and state names as well as FIPS identification numbers and county area estimates. Territories enumerated by the U.S. Census are also included. This layer is part of a collection of historical United States county boundary files (HUSCO), from each decade ranging from 1790-1999. This layer is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. Earle, Carville, Changyong Cao, John Heppen, and Samuel Otterstrom. 1999. The Historical United States County Boundary Files 1790-1999. Geoscience Publications. Louisiana State University
Subjects
- Boundaries
- United States
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York (State)
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington (State)
- Counties
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.684353, -67.031421, 49.37241, 25.119425)
- Geometry: BBOX (-124.684353, -67.031421, 49.37241, 25.119425)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Restricted
Citation
Earle, Carville, Heppen, John, Otterstrom, Samuel, Cao, Changyong, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Department of Geography and Anthropology. Historical United States County Boundaries, 1850. Geoscience Publications. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/pm913fh2729
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English