Lab 3: Finding & Documenting Mappable Data

Lab 3: Finding & Documenting Mappable Data

Geography 211: Cartography

Joseph CocoGenitti

Western United States

Colorado & Arizona

Sources of Data:

1900-1990

COLORADO: Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990

https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/co190090.txt

TXT file (saved as MS Word document)

ARIZONA: Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990

Link AZ: https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/az190090.txt

TXT file (saved as MS Word document)

2000-2010

Census 2000 Data for the State of Colorado (contains 2000 & 2010)

https://www.census.gov/census2000/states/co.html

HTML file (saved as MS Excel document)

Census 2000 Data for the State of Arizona (contains 2000 & 2010)

https://www.census.gov/census2000/states/az.html

HTML file (saved as MS Excel document)

2015

Colorado Counties by Population

http://www.colorado-demographics.com/counties_by_population

HTML file (saved as MS Word document)

Arizona Counties by Population

http://www.arizona-demographics.com/counties_by_population

HTML file (saved as MS Word document)

Information about States

Population Brief: Trends in the Western US

https://wrdc.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/pub__5817878.pdf

Water and Population in the American West

https://environment.yale.edu/publication-series/documents/downloads/0-9/107Fort.pdf

Western US Climate Historical Summaries

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/climsum.html

Data Visualization: Western US Demographics

http://web.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/vis-demographics

Visualizing Environmental Trends: EcoWest

http://ecowest.org