[OHM] map for 1890 US Census

[Nico Tripcevich]

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.
Perhaps this shapefile? It should be public domain from data.gov
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2017-nation-u-s-current-state-and-equivalent-national



On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:20 AM Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org> wrote:

> Hello:
>
>
>           Thanks for the reply.
>
>
>           How can I get shapefiles to match the US as of 1890-05-31, so I
> can
> add numbers or colors or shading to represent the percent of deaths due
> to malaria in each of the 50 "states and territories"?
>
>
>           Thanks,
>           Spencer Graves
>
>
> On 9/7/21 8:07 AM, ntripcevich wrote:
> > Something like this QGIS Chloropleth tutorial
> > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttW9ptW7Y74
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>
> > Date: 9/7/21 2:07 AM (GMT-08:00)
> > To: historic at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: [OHM] map for 1890 US Census
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> >
> >    What do you suggest I do to plot data from the 1990 US Census on a
> map?
> >
> >
> >    I have data on the percent of deaths due to malaria in each of 50
> > "states and territories" from the 1890 census, "during the census year
> > ended May 31, 1890".[1] It's essentially a modern map of the contiguous
> > 48 with two differences:  (1) Oklahoma is split in two with roughly the
> > southeastern 40 percent being "Indian territory" and the rest labeled,
> > "Oklahoma".[2]  (2) The District of Columbia is counted separately.
> >
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >    Spencer Graves
> >
> >
> > [1] The percentages range from 0.2 to 10.6, which I computed from raw
> > counts of total deaths and deaths from malaria given in Tables 4 and 5,
> > on pages numbered 16 - 425, which give deaths "from each specified
> > disease and class of diseases, with the distinction of age and sex,
> > during the census year ending May 31, 1890" in John S. Billings, M.D.
> > (1894) Report on the Vital and Social Statistics in the United States at
> > the Eleventh Census:  1890.  Part III. -- Statistics of Deaths
> > (Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office).
> >
> >
> > [2] There are Wikipedia articles on "Indian Territory" and "Oklahoma
> > territory".  The boundaries of the two seem to have been specified in
> > "The Oklahoma organic act of 1890", 1890-05-02.  They were later merged
> > by "Oklahoma statehood", 1907-11-16.
> >
> >
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