1890's Land Cover/Use - Mississippi River Commission Surveys, Pool 25
Dataset Identification:
Resource Abstract:
In the late 1880's and early 1900's the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) conducted an extensive high-resolution survey of
the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Minneapolis, Minnesota. These data were published as a series of 89 survey maps
and index. In the 1990's, the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in conjunction with the US Army Corps of
Engineers Upper Mississippi River Restoration- Environmental Management Program -- Long Term Resource Monitoring Program element
(LTRMP) for the Upper Mississippi River automated the maps' land cover/use symbology to create a turn of the century/pre-impoundment
land cover/use data set. Other data on the maps that were not automated include; elevation contours, water depth soundings,
proposed water control structures (e.g., wing dams), levees, benchmarks, railroads, and city streets.
Citation
Title 1890's Land Cover/Use - Mississippi River Commission Surveys, Pool 25
publication Date
2013-04-02
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VECTOR DIGITAL DATA SET (POLYGON)
The Mississippi River Commission maps were automated by the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center so a pre-impoundment/turn
of the century land cover/use data set would be available for analysis.
Resource language:
eng; USA
Resource progress code:
completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:
notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Distributor assumes no liability for misuse of data.
Constraints on resource usage:
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use constraint:
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Other constraints
Use Constraints: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey,
no warranty has been expressed or implied regarding the individual use of the data or aggregate use with other data, nor shall
the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from
a U.S. Geological Survey server and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is
also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data.
The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey,
no warranty has been expressed or implied regarding the individual use of the data or aggregate use with other data, nor shall
the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from
a U.S. Geological Survey server and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is
also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data.
The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Spatial representation type code:
vector
Processing environment:
Native Dataset Environment: Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack
1; ESRI ArcCatalog 10.2 (Build 3552) Service Pack [N/A] (Build [N/A])
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude
-90.918735
eastBoundLongitude
-90.652166
northBoundLatitude
39.459445
southBoundLatitude
38.996247
Temporal Extent
1890-06-01
Additional information on resource:
Descriptive text printed on the map series reads as follows: The Mississippi River and adjacent topography was reduced from
detail maps, projected and drawn from surveys made under the direction of the Mississippi River Commission in the years 1880
to 1882, 1884, 1888, 1889, and 1891 to 1899 - expecting the part below the upper limits of Cairo, Ill., which was reduced
from maps projected and drawn from surveys made under the direction of C.B.Comstock, Major, Corps of Engineers, Bvt. Brig.
Genl., U.S.A., in the years 1876 and 1877. The remainder of the map was compiled from surveys of the Missouri River Commission;
surveys of the Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.; U.S. Land surveys; Railroad surveys; State, County and Township maps and other
reliable sources. Compiled and drawn under the direction of J.A.Ockerson, Principal Assistant Engineer, and C.W.Clark, Assistant
Engineer, in the office of the Secretary of the Mississippi River Commission, by C.S.Clark, Assistant Engineer, H.A.H.d'Ailly
and A.A.Aguirre.
Credits:
Mississippi River Commission, US Army Corps of Engineers Upper Mississippi River Restoration- Environmental Management Program
-- Long Term Resource Monitoring Program element and USGS's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
point of contact
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pointOfContact
individual Name John C Nelson
organisation Name
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
source description
Source Contribution: Base MapsSource Type Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources
source citation
Title Mississippi RIver Commission Maps
publication Date
1890-06-01
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HARDCOPY
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publisher
organisation Name
Unknown
Contact information
Address
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cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
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Resource extent
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the data set has not conducted.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set has either not been conducted, or is not
applicable.
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description
Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the
rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description
Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the
rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description
No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard 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
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pointOfContact
individual Name Metadata Coordinator
organisation Name
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center