Geography 400: US & Canada
Welcome to the Geography 400 supplemental web site. Here you will find links to resources for class discussions and assignments. As the semester
progresses, I will be adding more links specific to daily lectures, so
check often for new material. I'm always interested in feedback from
students, so please click here to email me.
Course Documents
Click below to download copies of class assignments and related
materials in .rtf format: (all are preliminary editions; final versions
may be adjusted)
College writing resources
New England
Slater Mill
New York & the Mid-Atlantic
Megalopolis
1999 map of the metro areas of Megalopolis from the Census Bureau
L'Enfant's Plan for Washington, D.C.
Southern Ontario
The Coastal South
Percent of Georgia counties' population Black or African-American alone, 2000
The Upland South
Branson, Missouri
The Great Lakes
Surveying the Land using the US Public Land Survey (USPLS) system
DetroitYES: The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
Maps of crop production from the US Dept of Agriculture:
The Upper Midwest
The Native Cultural Center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
The Great Plains
The High Plains Aquifer Information Network (information on the Ogallala aquifer)
Maps of U.S. crop production from the US Dept of Agriculture:
The Homestead Act as interpreted by the Homestead National Monument (NPS site in Nebraska)
KansasFreeLand.com, a 21st-century version of the Homestead Act
Railroad land grants (does not open in Firefox)
Large map of Indian Lands in the United States
Large map of population change, 2000-2003, by county in the U.S. (source: U.S. Census Bureau)
Texas
Texas regions according to the state tourism agency
Big things:
The Mountain West
Geologic foundations of two regions, from the USGS:
PitWatch, an organization in Butte, Montana, focused on monitoring the Berkeley Pit copper mine
The Southwest
Official web site of the Navajo Nation
California
California Department of Water Resources
Images of Water Resources -- Los Angeles Aqueduct, Owens Valley,and Mono Lake from the University of California
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Moving Rocks of Death Valley
The Pacific Northwest
Two views of Portland's strict development rules, from Environmental Defense and the Pacific Research Institute
Hawai'i
Hawai'i: Independent & Sovereign (a pro-independence site)
The Canadian Shield and the Far North
Permafrost from the Yukon government's Climate Change site (note location of permafrost and the tree line on the map)
Part II: North American Culture lectures
Ethnicity
Maps from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Fact Finder that show the percentage of each county's population that is:
Urban Geography
New Deal Regional Planning and Greenbelt Towns
Levittown:
Segregation: neighborhood exposure by race from CensusScope.org (choose the metro area or state/city from the menu in the upper left)
Political Geography
Links to outside resources and other links of geographical interest
Potential paper resources:
Geography in general:
- A decent world atlas from Mapquest, which also offers a place finder where you can find the locations of places in any country (great if you don't own a world atlas)
- Download Google Earth, an interactive map of the entire world
- Geography at About.com, an excellent collection of information about the discipline of Geography and links to more resources
The Ohio State University Geography Department Site
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Contact Dave at schul.1@osu.edu
Last modified January 6, 2009.