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Title: Historical United States County Boundaries, 1950

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Dates

  • Issued: 1999
  • Coverage: 1950

Publishers

  • Geoscience Publications

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains county boundaries for the United States in 1950. 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
  • Alabama
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York (State)
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Oklahoma
  • Ohio
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington (State)
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
  • United States
  • Counties
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.684351, -67.031421, 49.372521, 25.119411)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-124.684351, -67.031421, 49.372521, 25.119411)

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, 1950. Geoscience Publications. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/gv602vx8727

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English