LIST OF HISTORICAL DATA AND PROJECTS

(README: This is a list of available GIS data and projects sorted by topical categories. a few links are available here, but you will find much more data and information by clicking on the links to the topical download page. There you will find GIS-ready data, metadata documents, sample images, project descriptions and pre-packaged GIS projects).

Westward Expansion & Oregon Settlement

The following GIS-ready data and projects look at U.S. territorial expansion, Oregon settlement, and Native Americans [click here to get to the download page].

Westward Expansion
1. Westward Expansion - Territorial Acquisitions
2. Westward Expansion - Overland Trail Network (ca. mid-1800s)
3. Native American Data including Indian Battles (1521-1890) and Oregon Native Tribes (1840-1850).
4. The Louisiana Purchase and Native American Displacement - Native Cultural Groups (national), Indian Territory, Trail of Tears [download the Native American Displacement Google Earth Project here].

Oregon Settlement
1. Google Earth Oregon Settlement Project (see README for instructions).
2. Georectified Willamette Valley Cadastral Survey (ca. 1860).
3. Georectified Willamette Valley Topographical Survey (ca. 1852-1875).
4. Vector layers of historic topographic features (water, roads, paths) for the Willamette Valley (ca. 1860).
5. Point layer of the Willamette Valley original Donation Land Claims with 1860 census and genealogical attribute data.
6. Spreadsheet data for the Oregon manuscript census (1845-1849; 1850 and 1860).

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Portland's People & Places

The following GIS-ready data and projects reflect the diversity of Portland's demographic landscape [click here to get to the download page].

Oldtown/Chinatown/Japantown
1. Boundaries of Portland's Chinatown (1863-1926) and the Chinese Gardens (1879-1908)
2. 1930 Oldtown/Chinatown Manuscript Census
3. Portland's Oldtown City Directories (1934-55)

Vice & Social Reform in the early 20th Century - Oldtown
1. Vice Map and Building Data (from a 1912 Vice Commission Report)
2. Vice Arrests in Oldtown (11/1-7 in 1917 and 1924)

Northwest Portland (ca. 1900)

WWII and Vanport Google Earth Project
Shows the buildings, roads and features of Vanport City, OR at the height of its occupancy during WWII. Also includes a point layer with hyperlinked images and narrative about life in Vanport.
[Download the Vanport Google Earth Project Here]
[Download the Vanport Project Description Here]

Urban Growth & Renewal
1. Portland's Historic Trolley System
2. 1938 Residential Security Map (Portland Redlining)
3. Urban Renewal in the Eliot Neighborhood
4. Portland's Albina Neighborhood and African-American Community (1940-1970)

Oregon's Measure 37
The Google Earth project maps the Measure 37 claims in the Willamette Valley and can be used to analyze the effects of the consequential changes to Oregon's land use system.
[Download the Oregon Measure 37 Google Earth Project Here]

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Slavery, Citizenship & Civil Rights

The following GIS-ready data and projects focus on rights of citizenship including issues of slavery, statehood and citizenship, the Civil War, the African-American community and the Civil Rights Movement, and immigration [click here to get to the download page].

1. Slaves & Free Colored Population (1790-1860) GIS data, U.S. census spreadsheet data and GIS projects.
2. The African-American Community and Desegregation - 1950 U.S. census data and maps.
[Download Desegregation Google Earth Project here]
[Download Desegregation National Maps here]
3. U.S. Immigration Data (Excel spreadsheet containing data for a wide variety of categories -- foreign-born, illegal immigration, family preference, 1790 ethnicity and 1924 country immigrant quotas)

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Miscellaneous National Data

The following GIS-ready data and projects represent national historic themes [click here to get to the download page].

The Monroe Doctrine Google Earth Project
Provides a geographic context for the global political, economic and cultural dynamics that let to the formation of the Monroe Doctrine and the various corollaries that followed. The primary data folders separate the project into 3 key phases (ranging from the Spanish Conquest to the Cold War). The sublayers provide a wide variety of geographic information including territorial expansion, key points of interest, resource competition, and political and military engagements.
[Download the Monroe Doctrine Google Earth Project Here]
[Download the Monroe Doctrine Project Description Here]

The Great Depression (in process)
1. National Census Demographic & Unemployment Data by County (1920-1940)
2. Detailed FDIC National Bank Data and Closures (1928-1936)

The Vietnam Conflict (in process)
1. Vietnam Casualties (national by county and Oregon by city)
2. National Election Data - Charts and graphs of public attitudes toward the war

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Sanborn Maps

This page contains a list of all the rectified images of historic Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps available for download covering various areas of Portland Oregon at time periods ranging from 1885 to 1965 [click here to get to the download page]. The Sanborn maps provide a detailed look at individual buildings and land use. Some images are in color; others in black and white. A sample image is available of the full spatial extent of the various datasets.

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