Abstract
The National Historical Geographic Information System Track: Census and Geodemographics Author(s): Mark Lindberg, Robert McMaster The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a five-year $5 million NSF-funded project to establish a temporal census database for the United States. Using ArcGIS software, the project has created census tract-level boundary files for 1910 to 2000 and for counties from 1790 to 2000. All associated statistical data has also been geocoded and is available with the boundary files. The paper discusses the development of the database and possible applications. Mark Lindberg University of Minnesota Geography 414 Social Sciences Minneapolis , MN 55455 US Phone: 612-625-0892 E-mail: mbl@umn.edu Robert McMaster University of Minnesota 414 Social Sciences Minneapolis 55455 US Phone: 612-625-9883 E-mail: mcmaster@umn.edu |
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