Statewide coverage of 1950 Census City Wards for Arizona. Wards were determined from textual descriptions 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
1950-01-01T00:00:00
End
1950-12-31T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-110.999974
East
-109.503131
North
33.407813
South
31.333933
ISO Topic Category
planningCadastre
society
boundaries
Theme Keyword
Population
Census
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
1950
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 1950_Wards.shp to Arizona_Places_1950.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
