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GNIS-P COVERAGE INFORMATION
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coverage Type point Topology point Extent Statewide Sources US Geological Survey GNIS-P contains names and point locations of populated places ( villages), locales, schools, cemeteries, and other miscellaneous features shown on USGS 1:24,000 scale quadrangles. Some features, such as trails, had multiple coordinates, but only the first set were used for this point cover. Data for this coverage were developed from the USGS GNIS-CD (1991). Approximate size of exported file 1,311 kB per entire coverage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Image] GNIS-P 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 place-name feature named. airport Man-made facility maintained for the use of aircraft; (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip); 2 items total Man-made structure carrying a trail, road, or other bridge transportation system across a body of water or depression; (overpass, trestle); 51 item A man-made structure with walls and a roof for protection of building people and/or materials but not including a church, hospital, or school (q.v.); 9 items Man-made waterway used by water craft or for drainage, canal irrigation, mining, or water power; (ditch, lateral); 2 items total cemetery A place or area for burying the dead; (burial, grave, burying ground, memorial garden); 1059 items total church Building used for religious worship; (chapel, synagogue, mosque, tabernacle, temple); 118 items total civil A political division formed for administrative purposes; (county, borough, town, township); 3 items total Water barrier or embankment built across the course of a stream dam or into a body of water to control and/or impound the flow of water; 44 items hospital Building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention; 17 items total Place at which there is or was human activity; it does not locale include populated places (ppl), mines, and dams; (railroad siding, station, junction, site, camp, landing, battlefield, crossroad, ranch, farm, windmill, tower, Place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed mine from the Earth; not including oilfield; (shaft, quarry, pit); 6 items total Place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a park cultural or natural resource and under some form of governmental administration; not including forest; (national park, state park, national historical landmark, Populated place; place or area with clustered or scattered ppl buildings and a permanent human population; (city, village, settlement, town); 2060 items reserve A bounded tract of land established as a reserve for a particular purpose (Indian Reservation); 1 item total Building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, school teaching, and learning; (academy, high school, college, university); 552 items Route for passage from one point to another; it does not include trail roads or highways (categories of entities not included in this data base); (ski trail, jeep trail, path); 101 item total VNAME Varient name(s) of feature. |
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