Digital map of saturated thickness in 1980 for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This digital data set consists of saturated thickness contours for the High Plains aquifer in the central United States. The High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32 degrees to almost 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees 30 minutes to 106 degrees west longitude. The outcrop area covers 174,000 square miles and is present in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital data set was created by digitizing the saturated thickness contours from a 1:1,000,000-scale base map created by the U.S. Geological Survey High Plains Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) project (Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p.) The data are not intended for use at scales larger than 1:1,000,000.
Citation
Title Digital map of saturated thickness in 1980 for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
publication  Date   1999-01-01
Edition 1.0
presentationForm  mapDigital
Series
Name Open-File Report
Issue OFR99-262
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Address
, Reston, VA
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Cederstrand, Joel R.
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Becker, Mark F.
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?ofr99-262
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
aquifers
ground water
groundwater
High Plains aquifer
Ogallala Formation
Ogallala aquifer
aquifer boundary
inlandWaters
thesaurus name >
Title none
Location keywords:
High Plains
Great Plains region
western U.S.
thesaurus name >
Title none
purpose:
This data set was created to archive the original map produced by the High Plains RASA project and make available the data on those maps for use with geographic information systems.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name:  ...
file type: GIF
thumbnail file description:  A browse image of the 1980 saturated thickness data set for the High Plains aquifer.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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.
Constraints on resource usage:
Security Constraints
Classification  unclassified
Classification System Public
Handling Description None
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Operating System-- UNIX, ARC/INFO Version 7.0.3, (Mon Mar 13 22:21:55 PST 1995)
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -105.92091073
eastBoundLongitude  -96.29377645
northBoundLatitude  43.66316552
southBoundLatitude  31.80397248
Temporal Extent
1980-01-01
Additional information on resource:
Introduction -- The information provided in the introduction is found in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B (Gutentag and others, 1984). This data set consists of digital saturated thickness contours for the High Plains aquifer in the United States. The High Plains aquifer, which underlies about 174,000 square miles in parts of eight states, is the principal water source in one of the nation's major agricultural areas. In 1980, about 170,000 wells pumped water from the aquifer to irrigate about 13 million acres. The High Plains aquifer is a regional water-table aquifer consisting mostly of near-surface sand and gravel deposits. The maximum saturated thickness of the aquifer in 1980 was about 1,000 feet and averaged 200 feet. Hydraulic conductivity and specific yield were highly variable because of the heterogeneity of the aquifer. Hydraulic conductivity and specific yield of the aquifer depend on sediment types, which vary significantly both horizontally and vertically. Hydraulic conductivity ranged from less than 25 to greater than 300 feet per day and averaged 60 feet per day. Specific yields ranged from less than 10 to 30 percent and averaged about 15 percent. The High Plains aquifer boundaries were determined by the erosional extent of the High Plains aquifer and hydrologic boundaries where the High Plains aquifer extends eastward from the Great Plains physiographic province (Fenneman, 1931). In most of the area the erosional extent of hydraulically connected Tertiary and Quaternary rocks were used. Streams and physiographic provinces in eastern Nebraska were used as hydrologic boundaries of Quaternary deposits. This digital data set was created by digitizing the saturated thickness contours from a 1:1,000,000-scale base map created by the High Plains RASA project (Gutentag and others, 1984). Reviews Applied to Data -- This electronic report was subjected to the same review standard that applies to all U.S. Geological Survey reports. Reviewers were asked to check the topological consistency, tolerances, attribute frequencies and statistics, projection, and geographic extent. Reviewers were given digital data sets for checking against the source maps to verify the linework and attributes. The reviewers checked the metadata files for completeness and accuracy. Related Spatial and Tabular Data Sets -- Other References Cited -- Fenneman, N.M., 1931, Physiography of western United States (1st ed.): New York, McGraw-Hill, 534 p. Gutentag, E.D., Heimes, F.J., Krothe, N.C., Luckey, R.R., and Weeks, J.B., 1984, Geohydrology of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B, 63 p. Notes -- Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
Credits:
None
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Mark F. Becker
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Hydrologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1-888-275-8747
Fax (405) 843-7712
Address
202 NW 66th St., Bldg. 7, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73116 Country United States of America
electronic Mail Address mfbecker@usgs.gov
contact Instructions
none
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Vector spatial representation information

Geometric Objects
geometric Object Type  POINT STRING GT-POLYGON COMPOSED OF CHAINS
geometric Object Count  177291178
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 2
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size 
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size 
transformation parameter availability:  false
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Coverage description

Type of coverage content 
Cell value attribute description:  
Band
descriptor Polygon attribute table of SATTHCK
sequence Identifier
name -
Band
descriptor Area of polygon in square coverage units
sequence Identifier
name AREA
Band
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Band
descriptor Internal feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK#
Band
descriptor User-assigned feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK-ID
Band
descriptor Range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name RANGE
Band
descriptor Lower limit of range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name MAJOR1
Band
descriptor Upper limit of range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
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Band
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sequence Identifier
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Band
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sequence Identifier
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Band
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sequence Identifier
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sequence Identifier
name LPOLY#
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sequence Identifier
name RPOLY#
Band
descriptor Length of arc in coverage units
sequence Identifier
name LENGTH
Band
descriptor Internal feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK#
Band
descriptor User-assigned feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK-ID
Band
descriptor Saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name ST
Band
descriptor Saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name MAJOR1
Band
descriptor 0
sequence Identifier
name MINOR1
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Coverage description

Type of coverage content 
Cell value attribute description:  
Band
descriptor Polygon attribute table of SATTHCK
sequence Identifier
name -
Band
descriptor Area of polygon in square coverage units
sequence Identifier
name AREA
Band
descriptor Perimeter of polygon in coverage units
sequence Identifier
name PERIMETER
Band
descriptor Internal feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK#
Band
descriptor User-assigned feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK-ID
Band
descriptor Range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name RANGE
Band
descriptor Lower limit of range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name MAJOR1
Band
descriptor Upper limit of range of saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name MINOR1
Band
descriptor Arc attribute table
sequence Identifier
name -
Band
descriptor Internal number of from-node
sequence Identifier
name FNODE#
Band
descriptor Internal number of to-node
sequence Identifier
name TNODE#
Band
descriptor Internal number of poly to left of arc
sequence Identifier
name LPOLY#
Band
descriptor Internal number of poly to right of arc
sequence Identifier
name RPOLY#
Band
descriptor Length of arc in coverage units
sequence Identifier
name LENGTH
Band
descriptor Internal feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK#
Band
descriptor User-assigned feature number
sequence Identifier
name SATTHCK-ID
Band
descriptor Saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name ST
Band
descriptor Saturated thickness in feet
sequence Identifier
name MAJOR1
Band
descriptor 0
sequence Identifier
name MINOR1
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  true
Feature Types  
Feature Types  
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  None.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  None.
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  This data set includes the saturated thickness contours published by Gutentag and others (1984) in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  This data set includes the saturated thickness contours published by Gutentag and others (1984) in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1400-B.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Polygon and chain-node topology present.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Ask USGS - Water Webserver Team
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1-888-275-8747 (1-888-ASK-USGS)
Address
445 National Center, Reston, VA, 20192
electronic Mail Address http://water.usgs.gov/user_feedback_form.html
Standard ordering process
fees None. This dataset is provided by USGS as a public service.
Format
Format name Export
Format version 
file Decompression Technique  zipped
Format
Format name Other
Format version 
file Decompression Technique  zipped
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 1
transfer Size 1
Linkage for online resource
name Export
URL: http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ofr99-262.e00.gz
Description Full coverage
Linkage for online resource
name Other
URL: http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ofr99-262.dlg.gz
Description DLG file format

Metadata data stamp:  2004-11-08
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  U.S. Geological Survey
position Name Ask USGS -- Water Webserver Team
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1-888-275-8747 (1-888-ASK-USGS)
Address
445 National Center, Reston, VA, 20192
electronic Mail Address http://answers.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/gsanswers?pemail=h2oteam&subject=GIS+Dataset+ofr99-262
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:  a88a6f5a-0b23-42b2-89e3-1b11d08f6b37

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)