Gray's Atlas map of Florida, 1886Title: Gray's Atlas map of Florida Projection: UnknownSource Bounding Coordinates:W: -88 E: -76 N: 31 S: 24.5Main Map PagePuzzles:,Description: Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center. This is a detailed map of Florida showing counties, cities, roads, railroads, inland waters, etc with an inset of the Plan of the Florida Keys. Prime Meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Township and range grid established from the Tallahassee baseline and meridian shows the extent of land survey in Florida and the fact that much of the Everglades and the Forbes Purchase or Forbes Grant in northern Florida were not surveyed in 1886. The map shows lighthouses with visibility range in miles, the near-shore 100 fathom line, and extensive notes on the Gulf Stream including the cold wall edges of the stream and the warm bands, and velocity rates.
Inset map of the vicinity of Jacksonville and the St. Johns River includes Fernandina and much of Nassau County south to Lake George in Marion and Volusia counties. Map scale is 1:1,800,000. Place Names: 1880-1899, Cape Canaveral, Daytona, Myers, Petersburg, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Orlando, Pensacola, Saint Augustine, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Tampa ISO Topic Categories: boundaries, inlandWaters, oceans, transportation Keywords: Gray's Atlas map of Florida, physical, political, transportation, hydrological, physical features, county borders, railroads, water routes, currents, water depths, boundaries, inlandWaters, oceans, transportation, Unknown,1886 Source: Ormando Willis Gray, Gray's Atlas (Phiadelphia, PA: O. Gray and Son, 1886) 91 Map Credit: Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida.
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Gray's Atlas map of Florida, 1886.
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Maps and text covering the historical boundaries, names, organization, and attachments of every county, extinct county and unsuccessful county proposal from the creation of the first county through December 31, 2000. For help with the interactive maps, see our page.Complete index of every county, county equivalent, or other area relevant to the evolution of state and county boundaries; includes extinct and proposed counties, non-county areas, and provides cross references for name changes, and hyperlinks to corresponding entries from the Individual County Chronologies. Also accessible from the County Index link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Organizes the historical data chronologically, combining all the county events into a single composite entry for each date. Each entry is followed by a citation to the primary source(s) used to determine the change. Also accessible from the Chronologies link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Organizes the historical data alphabetically by county name with each entry covering all the changes to a single county or equivalent. Each entry is followed by a citation to the primary source(s) used to determine the change.
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Also accessible from the Chronologies link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Lists the primary and secondary sources found useful in the historical research of territorial, state, and county boundaries. Also accessible from the Supplemental Texts link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Commentary on the research problems, materials and dates that were remarkable or unusual in the process of historical compilation (Not every state requires a commentary).
Also accessible from the Supplemental Texts link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Single-page document providing information about the shapefile data used for the interactive map site and available for download. Includes: Project Description, Preferred Style for Citation, and Spatial Reference Information. Also available from the dropdown Quick Link in the navigation menu on each page, and from the Supplemental Texts link at the bottom of the interactive map frame.Sixteen-page document providing complete information about the shapefile data used for the interactive map site and available for download. Includes: Identification and Citation Information (abstract of the project coverage, purpose, contents, and method of historical compilation), Data Quality Information (attribute and positional accuracy, historical and digital sources, step-by-step process descriptions), Spatial Data Organization Information, Spatial Reference Information, Entity and Attribute Information, Distribution and Metadata Reference Information. Also accessible from the Download Shapefiles page. (zip file)Full contents of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries may be downloaded free of charge for use under the stipulations and constraints described in the Downloads a zipped folder containing the full dataset for the desired state.