US Post Offices

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US Post Offices
Blevins, Cameron; Helbock, Richard W., 2021, "US Post Offices", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NUKCNA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8ROmiI5/4qA8jHrt62PpyA== [fileUNF]
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Historical and spatial dataset of 166,140 post offices that operated in the United States between 1639-2000. Richard Helbock collected historical information about post offices and Cameron Blevins processed these records to geocode them. For more information about the dataset and its creation see: US Post Offices. The project's Github repository contains the code used to geocode post office records.
Subject Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences
Keyword post offices, federal government, historical geography, united states history
Related Publication Cameron Blevins, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).isbn: 9780190053673
Notes For more information about the dataset and its creation see: US Post Offices. The project's Github repository contains the code used to geocode post office records.
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AllNames_20210101_nocitation.txt
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Published Mar 30, 2021
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MD5: 0d4cf4f499b0a559c7c04bc7a011c83f
Tabular data containing variant names for GNIS domestic features, downloaded in March 2021 from: https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names.
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NationalFile_20210101.txt
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Tabular data containing all official domestic GNIS features for the United States, downloaded in March 2021 from: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/access/datafile/4491883
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us-post-offices-data-dictionary.tab
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4 Variables, 30 Observations UNF:6:ATW2g2vkUwFqnCNry8haKA==
Field descriptions and example values for the US Post Offices dataset. Created in March 2021.
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us-post-offices-random-coords.tab
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30 Variables, 166140 Observations UNF:6:PRJesJXJa0KWjjKmPk5ybw==
Alternative dataset to us-post-offices.csv, containing semi-random coordinates assigned to any post offices that were not successfully geolocated using the GNIS database.
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us-post-offices.tab
Tabular Data - 30.9 MB
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29 Variables, 166140 Observations UNF:6:RD6JjRu0I5KcIvu1+MNyiw==
The main tabular dataset generated from geocoding Helbock's data using the GNIS database.
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