HISTORIC GIS DATA: Portland's People & Places |
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| This page includes GIS-ready data and projects that reflect the diversity of Portland's demographic landscape throughout time. Datasets include the many features of Portland's Oldtown/Chinatown, a 1938 Residential Security Map of Portland, spreadsheets and shapefiles of vice arrests in Oldtown for 1917 and 1924, shapefiles and a Google Earth project highlighting the historic City of Vanport, historic trolley lines, and data that highlight the diversity of Northwest Portland (ca. 1900). | |||||
NOTE: Sample images are sometimes cropped. Download the metadata to see the full extent of the dataset. |
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Metadata |
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GIS Projects |
Oldtown/Chinatown |
Portland's changing Chinatown, 1863-1926 (boundary polygons) |
1930_OT_ArcView.zip [in process] |
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Chinese Gardens, 1879-1908 (boundary polygons) |
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1930 Oldtown Manuscript Census (point file of individuals transcribed from the 1930 census) |
The Excel spreadsheet includes a metadata page |
1930_OT_Pop.xls [spreadsheet] |
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| 1932 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map (image layer covering Oldtown) | |||||
| Vice & Social Reform (1917 & 1924)
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Point layer of vice arrests in Oldtown Portland for a 2-week period (11/1-17) in 1917 and 1924. | View Image (1917) View Image (1924) |
1926_blocks.zip (for use with vice data) 1926 Sanborn Maps (for use with vice data) |
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1912 map (from the Vice Commission) showing buildings of "questionable morality" with a point layer. |
View Image (1912) Metadata |
1912_Vice_Map.zip 1912_Vice_Buildings.zip |
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| Northwest Portland (ca. 1900) |
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[in process] |
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| WWII & Vanport City | Shapefiles show the buildings, streets and features of the City of Vanport. | Vanport_ArcView.zip Vanport_City.kmz |
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| Urban Growth & Renewal | 1938 Portland Residential Security Map (redlining) - georectified raster image and redlined boundary polygons. |
Metadata |
1938_res_security.zip redline_1938.zip |
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| Portland's Historic Trolley Lines |
Metadata |
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| Urban Renewal in the Eliot Neighborhood | View Image Metadata |
[in process] |
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| Portland's Albina Neighborhood and its African-American population (1940-1970) |
Metadata |
[in process] |
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