<div dir="ltr"><div>If you can find a shapefile showing the modern 50 states you could save out a copy and edit your copy using the QGIS vector editing tools.</div><div>Perhaps this shapefile? It should be public domain from <a href="http://data.gov">data.gov</a></div><div><a href="https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2017-nation-u-s-current-state-and-equivalent-national">https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2017-nation-u-s-current-state-and-equivalent-national</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:20 AM Spencer Graves <<a href="mailto:spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org">spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello:<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for the reply.<br>
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<br>
How can I get shapefiles to match the US as of 1890-05-31, so I can <br>
add numbers or colors or shading to represent the percent of deaths due <br>
to malaria in each of the 50 "states and territories"?<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Spencer Graves<br>
<br>
<br>
On 9/7/21 8:07 AM, ntripcevich wrote:<br>
> Something like this QGIS Chloropleth tutorial<br>
> <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttW9ptW7Y74" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttW9ptW7Y74</a><br>
> <br>
> -------- Original message --------<br>
> From: Spencer Graves <<a href="mailto:spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org" target="_blank">spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org</a>><br>
> Date: 9/7/21 2:07 AM (GMT-08:00)<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:historic@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">historic@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
> Subject: [OHM] map for 1890 US Census<br>
> <br>
> Hello:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> What do you suggest I do to plot data from the 1990 US Census on a map?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I have data on the percent of deaths due to malaria in each of 50<br>
> "states and territories" from the 1890 census, "during the census year<br>
> ended May 31, 1890".[1] It's essentially a modern map of the contiguous<br>
> 48 with two differences: (1) Oklahoma is split in two with roughly the<br>
> southeastern 40 percent being "Indian territory" and the rest labeled,<br>
> "Oklahoma".[2] (2) The District of Columbia is counted separately.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Spencer Graves<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> [1] The percentages range from 0.2 to 10.6, which I computed from raw<br>
> counts of total deaths and deaths from malaria given in Tables 4 and 5,<br>
> on pages numbered 16 - 425, which give deaths "from each specified<br>
> disease and class of diseases, with the distinction of age and sex,<br>
> during the census year ending May 31, 1890" in John S. Billings, M.D.<br>
> (1894) Report on the Vital and Social Statistics in the United States at<br>
> the Eleventh Census: 1890. Part III. -- Statistics of Deaths<br>
> (Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office).<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> [2] There are Wikipedia articles on "Indian Territory" and "Oklahoma<br>
> territory". The boundaries of the two seem to have been specified in<br>
> "The Oklahoma organic act of 1890", 1890-05-02. They were later merged<br>
> by "Oklahoma statehood", 1907-11-16.<br>
> <br>
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