Statewide coverage of 1880 Places based on population data available from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population data is from the Statistics of the Population of the United States (1880 Census of Population)
Purpose
To use in GIS systems for historical study and analysis This datasets is made available to interested persons through the University of Arizona's instance of Open Geoportal. It has been provided to assist educators, students, researchers, and policy makers in mapping and/or analysis applications.
Temporal Extent
Time Period
Begin
1880-01-01T00:00:00
End
1880-12-31T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-114.779966
East
-109.126442
North
36.254223
South
31.582662
ISO Topic Category
planningCadastre
boundaries
society
Theme Keyword
Population
Census, Places
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.
Place Keyword
Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Place Keyword
State of Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNIS
Temporal Keyword
1880
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Chris Kollen, University of Arizona Library
Point of Contact
Contact
Chris Kollen
Position Name
Data Curation Librarian
Delivery Point
P.O. Box 210055
City
Tucson
Administrative Area
AZ
Postal Code
85721-0055
Country
U.S.
Email
kollen@email.arizona.edu
Phone
(520) 305-0495
Spatial Reference Information
Reference System Identifier
Code
NAD83 / UTM zone 12N (EPSG:26912)
Code Space
EPSG
Version
7.9
Data Quality Information
Absolute External Positional Accuracy
Result
Accuracy within 20 meters at scale of 1:4,300
Lineage
Process Step
Description
Dataset renamed from 1880_Cities.shp to Arizona_CensusPlaces_1880.shp by Ben Hickson with the University of Arizona Library. Metadata fields corresponding the Open Geoportal Working Group Best Practices Guide (http://opengeoportal.org/working-groups/metadata/) were also updated.
