Statewide coverage of 1930 Census City Wards for Arizona. Wards were determined from textual description of the boundaries.
Purpose
To use in GIS systems for historical study and analysis. Not a legal description 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
1930-01-01T00:00:00
End
1930-12-31T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-110.999982
East
-109.503247
North
33.407813
South
31.333943
ISO Topic Category
planningCadastre
society
boundaries
Theme Keyword
Census
Population
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.
Place Keyword
State of Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNIS
Place Keyword
Arizona
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Temporal Keyword
1930
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
85745
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 100 feet
Lineage
Process Step
Description
Dataset renamed from 1930_Wards.shp to Arizona_Wards_1930.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.
Process Date
Source
Title
Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1830-1950
