It also has the boundary of New Kent and James City incorrectly 
displayed pre 1767. The counties were divided along the ridge line with 
the lower part of New Kent in James City and the upper part of James 
City in New kent.

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On 7/14/2010 9:37 AM, Martha Katz-Hyman wrote:
> This came to me via H-New Jersey, but I think it will be extremely useful
> for the study of Virginia history.
>
> Here's the link to Virginia county maps:
>
> Here's the link to the Virginia county maps:
> http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/statepages/Virginia.html
>
> Martha Katz-Hyman
>
>
>    
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:20:21 -0600
>> From: Otterstrom- HistGeog<[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries now available online
>>
>> From: Douglas Knox [[log in to unmask]]
>> Date sent: 12 Jul 2010
>>
>> Atlas of Historical County Boundaries now available online
>>
>> The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and
>> release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a
>> dataset that covers every day-to-day change in the size, shape,
>> location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and
>> state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2000.
>>
>> Nearly every aspect of American life can be described, analyzed, and
>> illuminated through data gathered and organized by county or
>> available in county records, and knowing how and when boundaries
>> changed is often the key to finding and understanding great
>> quantities of historical data.  For example, a farm may have been in
>> one family for many generations, but over the decades changes in
>> county lines may have effectively moved that farm from one county to
>> another. When looking for old family records, how does the modern
>> genealogist know which county seat will hold great-grandmother's
>> marriage certificate? How does an attorney know which county seat
>> recorded the deed to great-great-grandfather's farm?
>>
>> In addition, population figures are commonly aggregated at the
>> county level, but comparing statistics from one enumeration to the
>> next may not accurately reveal actual change. Was a change in the
>> figures from census to census due to population movement or to a
>> change in the boundaries of the reporting counties, or to a
>> combination of both?
>>
>> With the Newberry's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries,
>> genealogists, geographers, historians, political scientists,
>> attorneys, demographers, and many more now can find accurate county
>> data that will greatly assist them in their research.
>>
>> The data are organized by state and are available online in four versions:
>>
>> * Viewable, interactive maps (electronic analogues to printed maps)
>> on which the historical lines have been plotted against a background
>> of the modern county network
>>
>> * Downloadable shapefiles for use in geographic information systems (GIS)
>>
>> * Downloadable KMZ files for use with Google Earth
>>
>> * Downloadable and printable PDF files (each full-page frame shows a
>> map of a different version of each county, with the historical
>> boundaries displayed against a background of the modern county
>> network)
>>
>> Supplementing the polygons and maps for each state are chronologies,
>> commentary on historical problems, long and short metadata
>> documents, and a bibliography.
>>
>> The project began in 1988, with principal funding provided by the
>> National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal
>> agency. Additional support came from the Newberry Library, which
>> also served as headquarters, and from other foundations and
>> individuals. The Newberry Library is the copyright holder; all files
>> of the Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries are free for
>> use under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Creative
>> Commons License. Queries should be addressed to [log in to unmask]
>> The Website for the Atlas is publications.newberry.org/ahcbp.
>>      
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