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This is a heads up that many of the 21 layers for the NHGIS census data have incorrect dates. The dates in the titles don't always match the web service date. When the FGDC metadata is transformed to Solr for OGP or GBL, most of the dates are 1830 or 1900, regardless of the date for the web service.

Here is what they look like in Earthworks: https://earthworks.stanford.edu/?q=nhgis&sort=dc_title_sort+asc

In Harvard's OGP, you can search for originator "University of Minnesota. Minnesota Population Center" to see the same issue.

For the Big Ten Geoportal, I just manually changed the dates in the titles and date fields. You can see the (corrected, I think) results here: https://geo.btaa.org/?page=1&per_page=20&q=nhgis&search_field=all_fields&sort=dc_title_sort+asc

Here are the affected layers:
harvard-nhgis-pop1800
harvard-nhgis-pop1810
harvard-nhgis-pop1820
harvard-nhgis-pop1830
harvard-nhgis-pop1840
harvard-nhgis-pop1850
harvard-nhgis-pop1860
harvard-nhgis-pop1870
harvard-nhgis-pop1880
harvard-nhgis-pop1890
harvard-nhgis-pop1900
harvard-nhgis-pop1910
harvard-nhgis-pop1920
harvard-nhgis-pop1930
harvard-nhgis-pop1940
harvard-nhgis-pop1950
harvard-nhgis-pop1960
harvard-nhgis-pop1970
harvard-nhgis-pop1980
harvard-nhgis-pop1990
harvard-nhgis-pop2000

It seems that the bounding box defined here is:

<bounding>
  <westbc>-179.231086</westbc>
  <eastbc>179.859681</eastbc>
  <northbc>71.441059</northbc>
  <southbc>17.831509</southbc>
</bounding>```
But this seems like it might not be correct?