Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
SUMMARY METADATA:  Montana Historical Counties
After ECAI's model, based upon Dublin Core.
Connection Information
DatasetTitle Montana 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 Montana Historical Counties
Citation.PreferredStyle Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Montana 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 Sinko, Peggy Tuck, historical compiler
Subject Montana Historical State and County Boundaries
Description Compilation of all changes in the size, shape, and location of all counties in Montana 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 316 polygons, 18.520 MB
Source Laws of Montana and other sources listed in bibliography
Language eng
Coverage.WestBoundingCoordinate -122.795964
Coverage.EastBoundingCoordinate -90.109107
Coverage.NorthBoundingCoordinate 54.493187
Coverage.SouthBoundingCoordinate 38.000896
Coverage.t.early 1804-10-01
Coverage.t.late 2000-12-31
Coverage.PlaceName Montana
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)