Metadata for Montana Conservation Districts and Soil Conservation Service Regions, 1994 Metadata for Montana Conservation Districts and Soil Conservation Service Regions, 1994

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Identification Information:

Citation:

Originator: Montana State Library

Publication date: 04/22/1994

Title:

Montana Conservation Districts and Soil Conservation Service Regions, 1994

Publication place: Helena, Montana
Publisher: Montana State Library

Other citation details:

The former name of this data set on the NRIS web site was "ab48"

Larger Work Citation:

Title: Montana Conservation District Boundaries
Online linkage: http://mslapps.mt.gov/Geographic_Information/Data/DataList/datalist_Details.aspx?did={A36DDF41-9B13-474C-A5B5-B7733EF4EF5E}

Abstract:

Conservation District boundaries were based on the 1:100,000 scale TIGER county coverage. Information came from the Conservation Districts Bureau, The Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS). There are two kinds of regions in this layer. Montana Association of Conservation Districts (MACD) areas are delineated in the Polygon Attribute Table, U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) district boundaries are identified in the Arc Attribute Table. The Soil Conservation Service is now called the Natural Resoruces Conservation Service.

Conservation districts are units of local government designed to help citizens conserve their soil, water, and other renewable natural resources. In 1937, President Roosevelt encouraged all states to adopt legislation enabling the creation of local soil conservation districts. The State Montana passed legislation creating its conservation districts in 1939 to provide for local control of natural resource management programs and activities.

The data were removed from the State Library's web site in 2008 when we were informed that these district boundaries were incorrect.

It seems that each polygon in this layer was supposed to represent a conservation district and that this layer assumed that each county corresponded exactly to a conservation district of the same name, except that Roosevelt County was split between two districts. But there have always been conservation districts that did not have the same name as the county and some of the districts in this layer must clearly be incorrect.

Time period of content:

Calendar date: 04/22/1994
Currentness reference: publication date

Access constraints: None

Use constraints:

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Point of contact:

Montana State Library
PO Box 201800
Helena, Montana 59620-1800
Telephone: 406-444-5354
E-Mail: geoinfo@mt.gov

Data Quality Information:

Lineage:

Source information:

Originator: U.S. Census Bureau
Publication date: 1990
Title: 1990 TIGER/Line Files
Edition: Census
Source scale denominator: 100000
Source contribution:: The coordinates of the boundaries were selected from this source.
Calendar date: 1990

Spatial Reference Information:

Horizontal coordinate system definition:

Grid coordinate system name: State Plane Coordinate System

SPCS zone identifier: 2500

Lambert conformal conic:

Standard parallel: 45
Standard parallel: 49
Longitude of central meridian: -109.5
Latitude of projection origin: 44.25
False easting: 600000.00000
False northing: 0.00000

Planar distance units: meters

Geodetic model:

Horizontal datum name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major axis: 6378137
Denominator of flattening ratio: 298.257

Entity and Attribute Information:

Entity type label: Conservation_Districts1994

Attribute label: FID

Attribute definition: Internal feature number

Attribute label: Shape

Attribute definition: Feature geometry

Attribute label: AREA

Attribute definition: Area of Polygon in square meters

Attribute label: PERIMETER

Attribute definition: Perimeter of Polygon in meters

Attribute label: NAME

Attribute definition:: This seems to be the name of the county associated with a conservation district. It seems that each polygon in this layer was supposed to represent a conservation district and that this layer assumed that each county corresponded exactly to a conservation district of the same name, except that Roosevelt County was split between two districts. While this is the case for many counties, there have always been conservation districts that did not have the same name as the county and the data in this layer is clearly incorrect.

Attribute label: MACDAREA

Attribute definition: Montana Association of Conservation Districts Area Number

Attribute label: SCS_Area

Attribute definition: U.S. Soil Conservation Service Area Number

Distribution Information:

Distributor:

Montana State Library
PO Box 201800
Helena, Montana 59620-1800
Telephone: 406-444-5354
E-Mail: geoinfo@mt.gov

Resource description: Offline Data

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Metadata Reference Information:

Metadata date: 05/13/2016

Metadata contact:

Montana State Library
PO Box 201800
Helena, Montana 59620-1800
Telephone: 406-444-5354
E-Mail: geoinfo@mt.gov