Established in 1982, Government Code Section 65570 mandates FMMP to biennially report on the conversion of farmland and grazing
land, and to provide maps and data to local government and the public. Other sections: Spatial Data Organization: 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:
Varies by Year Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Map_Projection: Map_Projection_Name:Albers
Conical Equal Area Albers_Conical_Equal_Area: Albers Conical Equal Area Standard_Parallel: 34.000000 Standard_Parallel: 40.500000
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -120.000000 Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000 False_Easting: 0.000000 False_Northing:
-4000000.000000 Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000256Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000256 Planar_Distance_Units: meters Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name:
North American Datum of 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio:
294.978698 Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition: Altitude_System_Definition: Altitude_Resolution: 0.000010 Altitude_Encoding_Method:
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type: Entity_Label: Important Farmland Categories Entity_Definition: Technical ratings of the soils and current land
use information are combined to determine the appropriate map category. Definition_Source: Farmland Mapping and Monitoring
Program Attribute: Attribute_Label: OBJECTID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: POLYGON_TY Attribute_Definition: Identifies
the mapping categories used by the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program. Attribute_Definition_Source: Definitions were
developed by the USDA-NRCS as part of their nationwide Land Inventory and Monitoring (LIM) system. Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Prime Farmland (P) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Irrigated land with the
best combination of physical and chemical features able to sustain long term production of agricultural crops. This land has
the soil quality, growing season, and moisture supply needed to produce sustained high yields. Land must have been used for
production of irrigated crops at some time during the four years prior to the mapping date. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Farmland of Statewide Importance (S) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Irrigated land similar to
Prime Farmland that has a good combination of physical and chemical characteristics for the production of agricultural crops.
This land has minor shortcomings, such as greater slopes or less ability to store soil moisture than Prime Farmland. Land
must have been used for production of irrigated crops at some time during the four years prior to the mapping date. Domain
Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Unique Farmland (U) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Lesser
quality soils used for the production of the state's leading agricultural crops. This land is usually irrigated, but may include
non-irrigated orchards or vineyards as found in some climatic zones in California. Land must have been cropped at some time
during the four years prior to the mapping date. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Farmland
of Local Importance (L) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Lands that do not qualify for the Prime, Statewide, or Unique
designation but are considered Existing Agricultural Lands, or Potential Agricultural Lands, in the Agricultural Land Element
of the County General Plan. Timberlands are excluded. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value:
Grazing Land (G) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Land on which the existing vegetation is suited to the grazing of livestock.
This category is used only in California and was developed in cooperation with the California Cattlemen's Association, University
of California Cooperative Extension, and other groups interested in the extent of grazing activities. Domain Value Attribute:
Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Urban and Built-Up Land (D) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Urban and Built-Up
land is occupied by structures with a building density of at least 1 unit to 1.5 acres, or approximately 6 structures to a
10-acre parcel. Common examples include residential, industrial, commercial, institutional facilities, cemeteries, airports,
golf courses, sanitary landfills, sewage treatment, and water control structures. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: Other Land (X) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Land which does not meet the criteria of any other
category. Typical uses include low density rural development, heavily forested land, mined land, or government land with restrictions
on use. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Water (W) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Water areas with an extent of at least 40 acres. Domain Value Attribute: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Area
not mapped (Z) Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Area which falls outside of the NRCS soil survey. Not mapped by the FMMP.
Domain Value Attribute: Attribute: Attribute_Label: POLYGON_AC Attribute_Definition: The acreage of the polygon feature. Attribute_Definition_Source:
Computer calculated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNTY_NAM Attribute_Definition: County name identified by a three letter
abbreviation. Attribute_Definition_Source: County abbreviations are in the text file located at the following url: ftp://consrv.ca.gov/pub/dlrp/FMMP/county_index.txt
Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features. Attribute: Attribute_Label: UPD_YEAR Attribute_Definition:
The year the data was captured. Attribute_Definition_Source: FMMP updates their data biennially. Attribute: Attribute_Label:
SHAPE_LENG Attribute_Definition: Perimeter of the polygon feature in meters. Attribute_Definition_Source: Computer calculated.
Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label:
SHAPE_AREA Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in meters squared. Attribute_Definition_Source: Computer calculated. Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Citation
Title El Dorado County Important Farmland
publication Date
1900-01-01T12:00:00
presentationForm
mapDigital
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
other Citation Details
Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Tue Jun 26 22:57:12 UTC 2018
purpose:
The Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) provides data to decision makers for use in planning for the present and
future use of California's agricultural land resources. The data is a current inventory of agricultural resources. This data
is for general planning purposes and has a minimum mapping unit of ten acres.
Resource language:
eng
Resource progress code:
underDevelopment
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints
otherRestrictions
use constraint:
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access constraints: None. Use Limitation: This data does not reflect general plan or zoning designations, city limit lines,
changing economic or market conditions, or other factors which may be taken into consideration when land use policies are
determined. This data is not designed to be used for parcel specific planning purposes due to its scale and the size of the
minimum mapping unit (10 acres). The Department of Conservation makes no warranties as to the suitability of this data for
any particular purpose.. Distribution Liability:
Spatial representation type code:
vector
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude
-121.152810
eastBoundLongitude
-119.875798
northBoundLatitude
39.067649
southBoundLatitude
38.498596
Temporal Extent
time Position
Credits:
A citation for the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program on any map products, graphic media, or data analyses based on the
data is appreciated.
point of contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name
organisation Name
California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
position Name Staff
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 916-324-0859
Fax 916-327-3430
Address
801 K Street MS 18-01, Sacramento, California, 95814-3528
Country USA
measure Description
The Important Farmland survey area is based on National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) modern soil surveys covering
most non-governmental lands in California; 49 counties are fully or partially surveyed at this time. Soil surveys specific
to National Forests or other government land units are not surveyed. Beginning in 2000, SSURGO digital soil information was
incorporated into the El Dorado County Important Farmland data. Data subsequent to 2000 may have acreage and soil line differences
due to incorporation of newer NRCS-SSURGO editions.Prior to the availability of SSURGO, soil information was hand-transferred
from the paper soil surveys. Older versions of the data have not been modified. The land use minimum mapping unit of ten acres
has not changed, but digital soil units of down to one acre occur in the SSURGO-enhanced Important Farmland data. Due to the
interaction of land use and soil components of the data, incorporation of SSURGO may also result in units of less than ten
acres for categories such as Other Land (or Nonagricultural and Natural Vegetation). For more information on SSURGO, contact
the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service: http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard, version
FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the August 2011-REH version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2 transform modified and updatated by SMR
2018-05-26 to work with xslt v1.0; generates USGIN compatible ISO19139 XML. Most recent metadata content review date: indeterminate:
Metadata contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name
organisation Name
California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
position Name Staff
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 916-324-0859
Fax 916-327-3430
Address
801 K. Street MS 18-01, Sacramento, California, 95814-3528
Country USA