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GNIS-L COVERAGE INFORMATION
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coverage Type point Topology point Extent Statewide Sources US Geological Survey GNIS-L contains names and point locations of landform features such as summits, islands, capes, bars, and ridges shown on USGS 1:24,000 scale quadrangles. Data for this coverage were developed from the USGS GNIS-CD (1991). Approximate size of exported file 1,959 kB per entire coverage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Image] GNIS-L CODING SHEET[Image] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POINT Coding Codes Description COUNTY Name of county feature occurs in. DECILAT Latitude in decimal degrees. DECILONG Longitude in decimal degrees. ELEVATION Elevation of feature (not filled in for all features). NAME Name as listed in original USGS file. NAME2 Value of name item changed to as it appears on map (e.g., Waldo, Mount changed to Mount Waldo). TYPE Type of landform feature named. Any one of several areally extensive natural features not area included in other categories; (fan, badlands, barren, delta, garden); 4 items total Natural accumulation of sand, gravel, or alluvium forming an bar underwater or exposed embankment; (sandbar, spit, reef, ledge, shoal); 1110 items basin Natural depression or relatively low area enclosed by higher land;(sink, pit, amphitheater, cirque); 20 items total The sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves beach or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel; (shore, strand, coast); 55 items Area of relatively level land on the flank of an elevation such bench as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises on one side and descends on the opposite side; 28 items total cape Projection of land extending into a body of water; (point, peninsula, neck); 1088 items total cave Natural underground passageway or chamber, or a hollowed out cavity in the side of a cliff; (cavern, grotto); 2 items total cliff Very steep slope; (bluff, crag, precipice, head, headland, nose, palisades, promontory, rim, rimrock); 85 items total flat Relative level area within a region of greater relief; (playa, clearing, glade); 29 items total Bounded area of woods, forest or grassland under the forest administration of a political agency (see woods); (national forest, national grasslands, state forest); 2 items total Low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or gap mountain range; (pass, notch, water gap, wind gap, saddle, col); 30 items Area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low island wetland; (isle, isla, rock, archipelago, atoll, key, cay, hammock, hummock); 1703 items pillar Vertical-standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation; (pinnacle, chimney, monument, rock, tower); 10 items total A region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of plain considerable extent; (grassland, highland, upland, plateau); 1 item total range Chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear complex mountainous or hilly area; (cordillera, sierra); 4 items total Elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a ridge hill or mountain; (rim, crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, spur); 324 items slope A gently inclined part of the earths surface; (pitch, grade); 1 item Prominent elevation rising about the surrounding level of the Earths surface; it does not include ridges and ranges; (hill, summit mountain, knob, butte, berg, colina, cone, volcano, cumbre, dome, head, knoll, mesa, meseta, mesita, mound, mount, peak, rock, sugar loaf, table, bald, cerro, horn); 2356 items Linear depression in the Earths surface that generally slopes valley from one end to the other; (canyon, barranca, chasm, cove, draw, glen, gorge, gulch, gulf, hollow, ravine); 12 items total Small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not woods include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see forest); 4 items VNAME Varient name(s) of feature. |
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