Historical GIS for geographic regions in Morse's The American Gazetteer (1797)

DOI

Historical GIS polygons (convex hulls) for the areas and administrative units mentioned in The American Gazetteer by Jedidiah Morse (Boston 1797). The dataset was specifically created for use with the text, but draws on resources of the NHGIS and HGIS de las Indias.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/3ULVPZ
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/3ULVPZ
Provenance
Creator Stapel, Rombert (ORCID: 0000-0001-6394-260X)
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Stapel, Rombert
Publication Year 2026
Rights CC0-1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact Stapel, Rombert (International Institute of Social History)
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/geo+json
Size 725430; 46890; 226938
Version 3.0
Discipline Humanities
Spatial Coverage (-135.000W, -90.000S, 20.000E, 90.000N)