West Virginia Populated Places

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The National Populated Places database is a geographic database of populated places in the United States containing information on the location and 1990 Census population. This dataset is a subset of that and the extent of the data is within the state of West Virginia.
Citation
Title West Virginia Populated Places
publication  Date   2001-01-01
presentationForm  mapDigital
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Bureau of Transportation Statistics
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), United States Department of Transportation
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://www.wvgis.wvu.edu/data/dataset.php?action=search&ID=173
Topic Category:  society,location
Keywords:
Location keywords:
West Virginia
thesaurus name >
Title None
purpose:
The data provide users with information about the locations, names, and 1990 populations of specific places.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
None
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: None
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -82.652154
eastBoundLongitude  -77.682552
northBoundLatitude  40.618169
southBoundLatitude  37.218351
Temporal Extent
2001-01-01
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Vector spatial representation information

Geometric Objects
geometric Object Type  point
geometric Object Count  277
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  false
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
source
source description  Source Contribution: All data was provided by the Bureau of the Census.Source Type online
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 100000
source citation
Title 1990 Census Master Area Reference File of Places
publication  Date   1990-01-01
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Bureau of the Census
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: www.census.gov
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
1990-01-01
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  No horizontal accuracy report has been complteted.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  No vertical accuracy report has been completed.
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  This data set contains every record found in the data provided by the Bureau of the Census.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  This data set contains every record found in the data provided by the Bureau of the Census.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Each place in this data set is represented as a point feature. The unique identifier (FEATUREID) contains the concatenated value of State FIPS Code plus FIPS Place Code for use as the link to the attributes.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  West Virginia GIS Technical Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (304) 293-5603 x4339
Fax (304) 293-6522
Address
West Virginia UniversityDepartment of Geology and Geography425 White HallPO Box 6300, Morgantown, WV, 26506-6300 Country USA
electronic Mail Address kurt.donaldson@mail.wvu.edu
Standard ordering process
fees NA
Ordering Instructions  Ordering Instructions: Please visit http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/data.php to download data.
Format
Format name ARCE
Format version 
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 0.007 MB
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/dataset.php?action=search&ID=173

Metadata data stamp:  2005-07-06
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  West Virginia GIS Technical Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (304) 293-5603 x4339
Fax (304) 293-6522
Address
425 White HallPO Box 6300, Morgantown, WV, 26506
electronic Mail Address kurt.donaldson@mail.wvu.edu
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  bcddcde2-7311-4d7b-9201-8389f33af7b1

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)