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ESRI Data Maps 2005 : U.S. National Atlas Public Land Survey

Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Originator
Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
Publication Date
20050401
Title
ESRI Data Maps 2005 : U.S. National Atlas Public Land Survey
Edition
2005
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Series Information
Series Name
ESRI Data Maps
Issue Identification
2005
Publication Information
Publication Place
Redlands, California, USA
Publisher
ESRI
Other Citation Details
Location: ESRI data maps 2005 \usa\other
Online Linkage
https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-esri05uspubldsur
Abstract
U.S. National Atlas Public Land Survey represents the Public Land Surveys (for example, donation lands, land grants, private and public lands) of the United States.
Purpose
U.S. National Atlas Public Land Survey provides the Public Land Surveys for geographic display and analysis at regional and national levels.
Supplemental Information
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:1,000,000.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
ground condition: 1972-2002; publication date: 200301
Bounding Box
West
-179.133392
East
179.788210
North
71.398185
South
17.674692
Theme Keyword
Public lands
Land grants
Administrative and political divisions
Indian reservations
Military bases
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
ISO Topic Category
planningCadastre
Theme Keyword
polygon
public land survey
public land survey system
township
range
private surveys
land grants
civil colonies
donation land claims
unsurveyed areas
Indian lands
military reservation
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
Place Keyword
United States
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands of the United States
Place Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Temporal Keyword
1972-2002
2003
Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
None
Access Restrictions
Access granted to Licensee only.
Use Restrictions
The data are provided under the Harvard University Site License. These data must be used in compliance with the Site License. This means that the data are only available for Harvard Affiliates for use on Harvard owned computers. The data are provided by multiple, third party data vendors under license to ESRI for inclusion on ESRI Data Maps for use with ESRI software. Each data vendor has its own data licensing policies and may grant varying redistribution rights to end users. Please consult the redistribution rights below for this data set provided on ESRI Data Maps. As used herein, "Geodata" shall mean any digital data set consisting of geographic data coordinates and associated attributes. The redistribution rights for this data set: Public domain data from U.S. government is freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The terms and conditions below apply to all the data sets provided on ESRI Data Maps. Proprietary Rights and Copyright: Licensee acknowledges that the Data and Related Materials contain proprietary and confidential property of ESRI and its licensor(s). The Data and Related Materials are owned by ESRI and its licensor(s) and are protected by United States copyright laws and applicable international copyright treaties and/or conventions. Limited Warranty and Disclaimer: ESRI warrants that the media upon which the Data and Related Materials are provided will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of receipt. THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE LIMITED WARRANTY, AND THE LICENSEE EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE DATA CONTAINS SOME NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS. ESRI DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE DATA WILL MEET LICENSEE'S NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS; THAT THE USE OF THE DATA WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED; OR THAT ALL NONCONFORMITIES, DEFECTS, OR ERRORS CAN OR WILL BE CORRECTED. ESRI IS NOT INVITING RELIANCE ON THIS DATA, AND THE LICENSEE SHOULD ALWAYS VERIFY ACTUAL DATA. EXCEPT FOR THE LIMITED WARRANTY SET FORTH ABOVE, THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Exclusive Remedy and Limitation of Liability: The entire liability of ESRI or its licensor(s) and Licensee's exclusive remedy shall be to terminate the Agreement upon Licensee returning the Data and Related Materials to ESRI with a copy of Licensee's invoice/receipt and ESRI returning the license fees paid to Licensee. IN NO EVENT SHALL ESRI AND/OR ITS LICENSOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES, OR BUSINESS EXPENDITURES, INVESTMENTS, OR COMMITMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BUSINESS; LOSS OF ANY GOODWILL; OR FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF THE DATA AND RELATED MATERIALS, HOWEVER CAUSED, ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ESRI OR ITS LICENSOR(S) HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. Third Party Beneficiary: ESRI's licensor(s) has (have) authorized ESRI to (sub)distribute and (sub)license its (their) data as incorporated into the Data and Related Materials. As an intended third party beneficiary to this Agreement, the ESRI licensor(s) is (are) entitled to directly enforce, in its own name, the rights and obligations undertaken by the Licensee and to seek all legal and equitable remedies as are afforded to ESRI. In the event that the data vendor(s) has (have) granted the end user permission to redistribute the Geodata, please use proper proprietary or copyright attribution for the various data vendor(s), and provide the associated metadata file(s) with the Geodata. In compliance with FGDC metadata standards, ESRI has attempted to practice proper metadata methodologies by providing any data source information, descriptions, and file names to assist in this effort.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Matches software update releases
Point of Contact
Contact Organization
ESRI
Delivery Point
380 New York Street
City
Redlands
State
California
Postal Code
92373-8100
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
909-793-2853
Contact Facsimile Telephone
909-793-5953
Contact Electronic Mail Address
info@esri.com
Hours of Service
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.706
Data Quality Information
Logical Consistency Report
No duplicate features are present. The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format in ArcSDE. This verifies and validates the geometry.
Completeness Report
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
The geospatial part of this data set was originally extracted from 1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000-scale state base maps for the western U.S. states and USGS topographic 1:100,000-scale maps for the eastern U.S. states. Data from both sources were integrated into the 1:2,000,000-scale State boundary Digital Line Graph (DLG) files produced by the U.S. Geological Survey. The positional accuracy of the 1:2,000,000-scale State boundary Digital Line Graph (DLG) files is known to be 1,720 meters. The positional accuracies of the other sources are unknown.
Lineage
Source
Originator
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publication Date
200301
Title
Public Land Survey System of the United States
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Publication Information
Publication Place
Reston, Virginia, USA
Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Other Citation Details
The data set was downloaded from the web site in November 2004.
Online Linkage
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
Source Scale Denominator
2000000
Type of Source Media
online
Source Temporal Extent
Time Period Information
Single Date/Time
Calendar Date
1972-2002
Source Currentness Reference
ground condition
Contribution
Attribute and geospatial data
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count
90919
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Geographic
Latitude Resolution
0.000001
Longitude Resolution
0.000001
Geographic Coordinate Units
Decimal degrees
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
ESRI05USPUBLDSUR
Entity Type Definition
The polygons represent the Public Land Survey which is a rectangular system of surveys devised to subdivide public domain lands within United States; in addition are donation land claims, Indian lands, land grants, civil colonies, military reservations, overlapping land grants, private surveys, unsurveyed areas, and areas not part of the Public Land Survey System within United States.
Entity Type Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
Attributes
OBJECTID
Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
Definition Source
ESRI
FEATURE1
The primary survey area type.
Donation Land Claims
An area that was allocated to a settler under the Donation Act of September 27, 1850 to preserve the rights of pre-statehood settlers claimed prior to the regular division of townships and ranges.
Indian Lands
Land granted to native Americans and excluded from the public domain.
Land Grants, Civil Colonies
An area of land to which title was conferred by a predecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government after the territory in which it is situated was acquired by the United States.
Military Reservation
A military or lighthouse reservation that limits the public lands.
Not Part of Public Land Surveys System
An area that is outside of the Public Land Survey System.
Overlapping Land Grants
An area of land to which more than one title was conferred by a predecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government after the territory in which it is situated was acquired by the United States. These areas are the result of survey error or disputed claims.
Private Survey
An area of private surveys of public domain lands.
Public Survey
An area of land subdivided by the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), which was originally created on public domain lands and the rules for its use were defined by the authority of the U.S. Government. The PLSS has since been extended, following similar rules, into non- public domain areas.
Unsurveyed Area
An area that is part of the public domain but which has not been subdivided.
Water
Areas of navigable streams and meanderable lakes which are excluded from the Public Land Survey System.
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
FEATURE2
The township and range designation for the area. (There is no predefined set of valid township and range designations. Designations are in the format "Township xxx aaaaa Range yyy bbbb", where xxx and yyy are numbers, aaaaa is either North or South, and bbbb is either East or West.)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
FEATURE3
The secondary survey area type.
Land Grants, Civil Colonies
An area of land to which title was conferred by a predecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government after the territory in which it is situated was acquired by the United States.
Overlapping Land Grants
An area of land to which more than one title was conferred by a predecessor government and confirmed by the U.S. Government after the territory in which it is situated was acquired by the United States. These areas are the result of survey error or disputed claims.
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
NAME1
The primary name of the survey area. This is the principal meridian, Ohio base, or land grant name. (GeoData Data Users Guide 1U.S. Geological Survey)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
NAME2
The secondary name of the survey area. This is an additional land grant name. (GeoData Data Users Guide 1U.S. Geological Survey)
Definition Source
National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey
STATE
The two-letter abbreviation for each state in which the survey area is located. (Federal Information Processing Standards 5-2National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Definition Source
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
TOWNSHIP
The abbreviated township designation for the area. (Designations are in the format "Txxxa", where xxx is a number and a is either N or S.)
Definition Source
ESRI
RANGE
The abbreviated range designation for the area. (Designations are in the format "Ryyyb", where yyy is a number and b is either E or W.)
Definition Source
ESRI
TWNRNG
The abbreviated township and range designation for the area. (Designations are in the format "Txxxa Ryyyb", where xxx and yyy are numbers, a is either N or S, and b is either E or W.)
Definition Source
ESRI
SQMI
The area of the survey area in square miles. (Calculated areas for the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
Shape
Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
Definition Source
ESRI
SHAPE.AREA
Area of feature in square coverage units
Definition Source
ESRI
SHAPE.LEN
Length of arc in coverage units
Definition Source
ESRI
Distribution Information
Format Name
Shapefile
Distributor
Harvard Geospatial Library
Online Access
http://hgl.harvard.edu
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20070517
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Harvard Geospatial Library
Contact Position
Geospatial Resources Cataloger
Contact Address
Address
Harvard University Library
Address
Office For Information Systems
Address
90 Mount Auburn Street
City
Cambridge
State or Province
MA
Postal Code
02138
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
617-495-2417
Contact Facsimile Telephone
617-496-0440
Contact Electronic Mail Address
hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
Hours of Service
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Extensions
Online Linkage
http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile Name
ESRI Metadata Profile
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