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Petra Tschakert and Cindy Brewer display the U.S. Census Atlas to a Coffee Hour audience on February 29.

Professor Cindy Brewer and Alumna Trudy Suchan Work on Award-Winning U.S. Census Atlas

The U.S. Census Bureau publication is the first of its kind since 1925. The Atlas--a joint-effort between Dr. Brewer, alumna Trudy Suchan, and others--has won awards from the Cartography and Geographic Information Society and the Association of American Geographers.

March 25, 2008

Professor and Associate Head Cindy Brewer along with U.S. Census Bureau employees Trudy Suchan (Ph.D. 1998), James Fitzsimmons, Anika Juhn, and Alexander Tait of International Mapping Associates recently completed the U.S. Census Atlas of the United States, the first general population and housing statistical atlas published by the Census Bureau since 1925.

Featuring more than 300 pages and weighing about 7 pounds, the atlas presents data from 1790 through 2000. It is arranged by topic and grouped into three general themes — who we are, where we come from and what we do. Most maps feature county-level detail for the United States and Puerto Rico.

“The Census Atlas of the United States is an invitation to spend several hours considering the characteristics of our country,” said former Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. “These maps do not merely offer graphic representations of the facts and data. They reveal the relationships among our nation’s people and the states, cities and counties where they have chosen to live. In short, the book tells the story of our nation — its past, present and future.”

Census Atlas of the United States is available on the Census Bureau Web site http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/censusatlas/. A print copy of the Census Atlas can be purchased from the Government Printing Office online bookstore at http://bookstore.gpo.gov.

The Atlas has already received two awards: Best of Show, CaGIS/ACSM Map Design Competition, awarded by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, 2008 and the 2007 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, awarded by the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2008.

Reference: Suchan, T.A., M.J. Perry, J.D. Fitzsimmons, A.E. Juhn, A.M. Tait, and C.A. Brewer, 2007, Census Atlas of the United States, U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Special Report, Series CENSR-29, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 302 pp, 12.5x15.5" (ISBN 1-58-769010-5).