Colonial Land Grants Database, Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, South Carolina, 1749-1851 (ICPSR 37078)

Version Date: Jun 22, 2018

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Principal Investigator(s):
Michael Coughlan, University of Georgia; Donald Nelson, University of Georgia

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37078.v1

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Summary

This data set consists of a GIS shapefile mosaic of the original survey plats for land grants from the king of England and the state of South Carolina for the years 1749-1851 for the Enoree District of the Sumter National Forest.

Citation

Coughlan, Michael, and Nelson, Donald. Colonial Land Grants Database, Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, South Carolina, 1749-1851. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-06-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37078.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (EAR-1331846)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

XY Coordinates

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1749 -- 1851
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Study Purpose

The process of Euro-American settlement of the South Carolina Piedmont, and elsewhere, established historically and specially contingent land-use patterns that continue to influence the trajectories of social-ecological landscapes. This study explores the settlement patterns of the Euro-Americans on a landscape previously shaped by Native American populations for thousands of years.

Study Design

Data was compiled from a mosaic of US Forest Service land purchase survey maps dated from 1934-1948. These US Forest Service purchase tract survey records were digitized into an ArcGIS parcel fabric. Where US Forest Service records were missing data, paper survey maps from the Union Country Historical Society Atlas, which contained traced Land Grant plats, were digitized and the images were rubber-sheeted into the parcel fabric. Land Grant survey boundaries were then digitized from the images and the appropriate attribute data (names of grantee and grant date) were added to the shapefile.

Universe

Land Grants for Enoree District, Sumter National Forest, 1749-1851

Unit(s) of Observation

Land Plot

Data Source

United States Forest Service (USFS) land purchase records

Union Country Historical Society Atlas (Foundation UCH. Land Grant Maps. Clinton, South Carolina: Jacobs Press, Inc.; 1995)

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Original Release Date

2018-06-22

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