Humanities GIS

US Census GIS boundary files every ten years from 1790 to 2010. Includes demographic and housing data.

1969-2000 by Newberry Library. Shape or KML files available.

Access to various GIS projects such as MapUSA( visualizing census tract data for 1940 through 2010), Longitudinal Tract Database (1970-2000 census data within constant 2010 tract boundaries), Urban Transition Historical GIS project (1850-1940) and more. Data and tutorials related to the projects are available.

US depots from 1840 to 1870. Download KML files

Historical topo maps in US. Download geopdf (Georeferenced) map.

Maps and census data at the census tract and county level from 1940 to 2010. Data downloadable.

Includes the sites to historical country boundaries (2000 BCE to 1994 CE), Post WWII, & Historical Places.

Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data: Years 100, 500, 1000, 1200,
1400, 1600, 1800, 2000 A.D (Available Data Service Shared Drive).

A free database of place names and historical administrative units for the Chinese Dynasties. Download data via Harvard Dataverse.

A free database of place names and historical administrative units for the Japan Dynasties. Download data via Dataverse at Harvard.

19th century of rural settlement in England. Shape or KMZ format

Include a list of useful tools to overlay historical maps.

LOC's digital map collection that includes many historical maps.

Search geographically for historical maps housed via some of the largest online map collections (a collaborative project between UK and Switzerland).

See more resources from the Atlas and map infoguide (at Mason).

LOC's digital Sandborn Fire Insurance map collection.

Browse geo-rectified (georeferenced) maps (Via Harvard University).