Metadata for the county boundaries in Oregon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents Identification_Information Data_Quality_Information Spatial_Data_Organization_Information Spatial_Reference_Information Entity_and_Attribute_Information Distribution_Information Metadata_Reference_Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 200102 Title: County Boundaries of the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: Description: Abstract: This data set portrays the State and county boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The data set was created by extracting county polygon features from the individual 1:2,000,000-scale State boundary Digital Line Graph (DLG) files produced by the U.S. Geological Survey. These files were then merged into a single file. This is a revised version of the November 1999 data set. Purpose: These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the national level, and for large regional areas. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1972 Ending_Date: 1999 Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: 170 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -64 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 72 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 17 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: boundaries Theme_Keyword: States Theme_Keyword: State boundaries Theme_Keyword: Counties Theme_Keyword: County boundaries Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: United States Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: USA Place_Keyword: Alabama Place_Keyword: Alaska Place_Keyword: Arizona Place_Keyword: Arkansas Place_Keyword: California Place_Keyword: Colorado Place_Keyword: Connecticut Place_Keyword: Delaware Place_Keyword: District of Columbia Place_Keyword: Florida Place_Keyword: Georgia Place_Keyword: Hawaii Place_Keyword: Idaho Place_Keyword: Illinois Place_Keyword: Indiana Place_Keyword: Iowa Place_Keyword: Kansas Place_Keyword: Kentucky Place_Keyword: Louisiana Place_Keyword: Maine Place_Keyword: Maryland Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Place_Keyword: Michigan Place_Keyword: Minnesota Place_Keyword: Mississippi Place_Keyword: Missouri Place_Keyword: Montana Place_Keyword: Nebraska Place_Keyword: Nevada Place_Keyword: New Hampshire Place_Keyword: New Jersey Place_Keyword: New Mexico Place_Keyword: New York Place_Keyword: North Carolina Place_Keyword: North Dakota Place_Keyword: Ohio Place_Keyword: Oklahoma Place_Keyword: Oregon Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania Place_Keyword: Rhode Island Place_Keyword: South Carolina Place_Keyword: South Dakota Place_Keyword: Tennessee Place_Keyword: Texas Place_Keyword: Utah Place_Keyword: Vermont Place_Keyword: Virginia Place_Keyword: Washington Place_Keyword: West Virginia Place_Keyword: Wisconsin Place_Keyword: Wyoming Place_Keyword: Puerto Rico Place_Keyword: Virgin Islands Place_Keyword: U.S. Virgin Islands Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None. Acknowledgment of the National Atlas of the United States of America and (or) the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Steve Kambly Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 561 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-5094 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: skambly@usgs.gov Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: The data set was checked for topological consistency using the Arc/INFO command BUILD. No other checks for logical consistency were performed on this data set. Completeness_Report: This data set includes county boundaries for all 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Data completeness generally reflects the content of the original DLG files. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1995 Title: 1:2,000,000-scale Digital Line Graph Data - Boundaries Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1970 Ending_Date: 1995 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 2MILBD Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1998 Title: County Boundaries of the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1998 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY98 Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Hydrography Features of the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1999 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-HY9903 Source_Contribution: spatial information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 19990326 Title: County Boundaries of the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1999 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9903 Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: unknown Title: 1:100,000-scale USGS topographic sheets Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: unknown Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 1:100,000-scale base maps Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Geographic Names Information System Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1999 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Geographic Names Information System Source_Contribution: attribute information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 199911 Title: County Boundaries of the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Source_Scale_Denominator: 2000000 Type_of_Source_Media: online Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 199911 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9911 Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information Process_Step: Process_Description: The 2MILBD data files were originally digitized by the National Mapping Division based on the sectional maps contained in 'The National Atlas of the United States of America' published by the USGS in 1970. The sectional maps were updated during 1978-1981 and digitized in the early 1980's. The data were updated again in the early 1990's by the USGS and published on CD-ROM in 1995 as State DLGs. Using Arc/INFO software, the updated DLG optional-format files were converted to Arc/INFO coverages using the DLGARC command. Only county boundaries and attribute information were extracted from the boundaries DLG layer for inclusion in this national coverage. The county boundary lines that crossed open water were excluded for graphic purposes and polygons that represented islands were attributed with the appropriate county information. The individual State coverages were then merged together using the Arc/INFO command MAPJOIN. "Slivers" created during the MAPJOIN process were identified and deleted using the ELIMINATE command. In 1998, the delineation of the boundary of Mojave County, AZ was corrected. Minor modifications were also made to boundaries in Alaska. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 2MILBD Process_Date: 1998 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY98 Process_Step: Process_Description: The spatial features were compared against the National Atlas hydrography layer (ATLAS-HY9903) and modified where necessary. Incorrect attributes were corrected. Yellowstone County was deleted and the boundaries for Gallatin and Park Counties were adjusted to absorb the area of Yellowstone National Park. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were added. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-HY9903 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY98 Process_Date: 1999 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9903 Process_Step: Process_Description: Several boundary adjustments were made to counties in Alaska, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. Dade County, Florida was changed to Miami-Dade County and the FIPS code was changed to 12086. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9903 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 1:100,000-scale base maps Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Geographic Names Information System Process_Date: 1999 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9911 Process_Step: Process_Description: The county name was corrected for the Grass Cay and Mingo Cay polygons in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The State field was changed from names to two-character abbreviations, and a field for State FIPS was added. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ATLAS-CNTY9911 Process_Date: 2001 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying areas of the United States, and Associated Areas (FIPS 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas (FIPS 6-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 6136 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000278 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000278 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: GRS1980 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Counties (described by Countyp020.dbf) Entity_Type_Definition: The second order division of a nation, such as a parish, borough, municipio, judicial division, and independent cities in Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia. Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: The representation of the entity in the data. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Polygon Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 2-dimensional element Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: ESRI GIS software Attribute: Attribute_Label: Area Attribute_Definition: The size of the shape in coverage units. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000 Range_Domain_Maximum: 73.832 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Perimeter Attribute_Definition: The perimeter of the shape in coverage units. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.010 Range_Domain_Maximum: 87.571 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Countyp020 Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 2 Range_Domain_Maximum: 6137 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Countyp020 Attribute_Definition: User-assigned feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1 Range_Domain_Maximum: 6136 Attribute: Attribute_Label: State Attribute_Definition: The two-character abbreviation for the name of the State in which the county is located. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas; (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Attribute: Attribute_Label: County Attribute_Definition: The name of the county or county equivalent. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas; (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4): Washington, D.C. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Attribute: Attribute_Label: Fips Attribute_Definition: The 5-digit FIPS code of the county or county equivalent. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas; (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4): Washington, D.C. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Attribute: Attribute_Label: State_fips Attribute_Definition: The 2-digit FIPS code of the State or State equivalent. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas; (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Earth Science Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 507 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS (1-888-275-8747) Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-5920 Contact_Instructions: In addition to the address above there are other ESIC offices throughout the country. A full list of these offices is at . Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. No responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data. 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The charge is $7.50 for the County Boundaries of the United States data set. Ordering_Instructions: To order files on CD-ROM, please see . Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20010205 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Peg Rawson Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 521 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-4183 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: atlasmail@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Security_Information: Metadata_Security_Classification_System: None Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: None