Counties of the U.S.

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Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: National Weather Service

Publication_Date: 19990503

Title: Counties of the U.S.

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Silver Spring, MD, USA
Publisher: National Weather Service

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/county/html/county100k.htm>

Description:

Abstract: Counties of the Continental United States at high resolution.
Purpose:: To supply the National Weather Service (NWS) with high quality, high resoulution county data set for selected use in the AWIPS and other NWS weather processing and display systems.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1997
Ending_Date: 200201

Currentness_Reference: Current

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -124.762578
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66.949831
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.383079
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.521051

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: County
Theme_Keyword: CWA
Theme_Keyword: WFO
Theme_Keyword: Time zone
Theme_Keyword: FIPS

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: CONUS

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints: None

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: National Weather Service
Contact_Person: Ira Graffman

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: 1325 East West Highway
City: Silver Spring
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20910
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.graffman@noaa.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700

Data_Quality_Information:

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Originator: NOAA/NOS/ORCA/SEA
Publication_Date: 2002
Title: TIGER/Line Files, Redistricting Census 2000
Title: TIGER/Line Files, Redistricting Census 2000
Publication_Information:

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100,000

Type_of_Source_Media: online

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: TIGER

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

TIGER counties and water bodies data were downloaded from ESRI ArcData site. Waterbodies used to create coastline for coastal counties.

Process_Date: 2002

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
Contact_Organization: National Weather Service

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 1325 East West Highway
City: Silver Spring
State_or_Province: MD
Postal_Code: 20910
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.graffman@noaa.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description: Metadata imported.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\DOCUME~1\GRAFFM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml78.tmp

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: 3115

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: Clarke 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Counties
Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI