County Atlas

Each team will complete the construction of an atlas of a particular county which should include many of the topics
covered by the Atlas of the Pacific Northwest.  You will be able, of course, to provide much greater detail since
you will be mapping a single county.  You may model your maps after those found in your atlas or any other atlas
where particular data is presented cartographically in an understandable and attractive manner.  You are not required
to use colors; monochrome shading or patterns may be sufficient.

Here is an excellent example of an atlas of a county in the Pacific Northwest: Lane County, Oregon

At a minimum, you should construct maps concerning the following:
 

The atlas should be in 8.5" x 11" format.  A simple staple in the upper-left corner will suffice as a binder.
At the very least each map should have an explanatory caption.  But feel free to include short passages of text
if you wish.  Each caption should end with (Data source: citation), and a list of cited references should appear
at the end of the atlas.  Each atlas will be graded on completeness, accuracy of data, creativity, and imagination,
and each member of the team will receive the same baseline grade for the county atlas that you worked on,
with additional plus or minus points derived from a peer review process.

You are encouraged to use the vast cartographic resources stored at the map library, augmented by
library book and journal article research, local (county-level) data sources, and any accurate and
trustworthy resources posted on the internet.

The following are the county teams, with e-mail links where provided by each student.

Whatcom County
Glenn Engels
Darcy McDaniel
Mark Constantine
Kateri Urbanec
Brett Zittel

King County
Josh Dawson
Carly Reed
Thomas Parsons
Norene Rollins
Charlie Culver

Pierce County
Meagan Ruth
Cedar Paddock
Scott Goninan
Kirk Hardtke
Malia McPherson

Clark County
Robert McHaney
Leah Sherrell
Rose Morris
Randy Brossard
Aaron Roden

Yakima County
James Wilson
Kelsey Binder
Eric VanAmburg
Kathleen Cartmell
Ryan Sole

Benton County
Ryan Kelly
Laura Hostetler
Brad Collar
Matthew Scarola
Lindsey Cornish

Spokane County
Jillian Robillard
Scott Schumaier
Luke Reeves
Jason Hartle
Jamie Christensen

Chelan County
Clubb, Matthew
Callie Ingraham
Martina Michalek
Mario Blauman
Teresa Betts

Some useful web links:

Make a map interactive site from the National Atlas

NASA's Visible Earth

David Rumsey historical map collection

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

UW Map Collection and Cartographic Services

EPA Region 10 Environmental Atlas

WSDOT GeoData Distribution Catalog

Washington state HistoryLink

Washington: some useful links

Washington average annual precipitation

Washington vegetation zones

Washington map with major lakes and rivers

ESRI Conservation Program Resources

Agricultural atlas of the U.S.

Atlas of human adaptation to western Cascadia

The Burke Museum at UW

Washington Digital Coastal Atlas

Washington counties online

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