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All files of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries are free for use under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Creative Commons License. For a full copy of the license go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Don't have a GIS program? Download ArcExplorer from ESRI. ArcExplorer is a lightweight GIS data viewer that is used to perform basic GIS functions (e.g., view, navigate, and query). To download shapefiles: select the desired state from the table below. You will be downloading a zipped folder containing the following files for each state: 1 master shapefile (polygons) for use with GIS programs, 2 metadata versions (summary and full FGDC), 1 database (tab-delimited text file), and 4-5 supplemental texts (2 historical chronologies, 1 county index, bibliography etc.). |
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Alabama
(8.68 mb) |
Georgia |
Massachusetts |
New York |
Tennessee |
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Alaska |
Hawaii |
Michigan |
North Carolina |
Texas |
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Arizona |
Idaho |
Minnesota |
N.
Dakota (10.4 mb)
[Dak. Terr. and ND combined] |
Utah |
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Arkansas |
Illinois |
Mississippi |
Northwest Terr. |
Vermont |
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California
(10.2 mb) |
Indiana |
Missouri
(12.5 mb) |
Ohio
(8.74 mb) |
Virginia
(20.9 mb) |
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Colorado |
Iowa
(3.06 mb) |
Montana
(12.3 mb) |
Oklahoma |
Washington |
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Connecticut |
Kansas
(2.32 mb) |
Nebraska |
Oregon |
West
Virginia (20.9 mb) |
| [WVa. and Va. combined] | ||||
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Dakota Territory |
Kentucky
(13.9 mb) |
Nevada |
Pennsylvania |
Wisconsin |
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Delaware |
Louisiana |
New Hampshire |
Rhode Island |
Wyoming
(3.48 mb) |
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Dist. of Columbia |
Maine |
New
Jersey (3.64 mb) |
South Carolina |
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Florida
(26.6 mb) |
Maryland |
New Mexico |
S.
Dakota (10.4 mb)
[Dak. Terr. and SD combined] |
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