{"id":1165,"date":"2013-07-22T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2013-07-22T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:54:24","slug":"historical-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2013\/07\/22\/historical-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what your county or Congressional district boundaries looked like in 1845? Before 1845?\u00a0 Then this is the blog post for you.<\/p>\n<p>At UCLA, Jeffrey Lewis, Brandon DeVine and Lincoln Pritcher have developed and made freely available Congressional district boundaries for the entire lower 48 states &#8211; all the way back to 1789. Their project draws on research previously done by Kenneth Martis, who also provided advice and source materials for the authors. The boundaries are available as an ESRI shapefile and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeoJSON\">GeoJSON<\/a> at a slightly lower resolution. Please <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cdmaps.polisci.ucla.edu\/\">visit their website<\/a><\/strong> for more information and documentation, as well as to download the shapefiles. The three maps below use their data to show the district boundaries at different points in time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/1stCong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1166\" alt=\"1stCong\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/1stCong.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/29thCong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1167\" alt=\"29thCong\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/29thCong.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/112ndCong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1170\" alt=\"112ndCong\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/112ndCong.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project used data from the National Historic GIS, as well as the Newberry Library in Chicago. The Newberry Library provides GIS and KML files for historical county boundaries at the state and national levels. Take, for example,<a href=\"http:\/\/publications.newberry.org\/ahcbp\/pages\/Connecticut.html\"> this page<\/a> for Connecticut which explains the data and directs you to an<a href=\"http:\/\/historical-county.newberry.org\/website\/Connecticut\/viewer.htm\"> interactive viewer<\/a> that allows you to compare modern and historical county boundaries from various dates (see below).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/historical-county.newberry.org\/website\/Connecticut\/viewer.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1189 aligncenter\" alt=\"CTMap\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/files\/2013\/07\/CTMap.jpg\" width=\"890\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what your county or Congressional district boundaries looked like in 1845? Before 1845?\u00a0 Then this is the blog post for you. At UCLA, Jeffrey Lewis, Brandon DeVine and Lincoln Pritcher have developed and made freely available &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2013\/07\/22\/historical-boundaries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,185,90],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-iN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}