Montana State Library 2002 Helena, Montana Montana State Library The former name of this data set on the NRIS web site was "gn3" https://ftpgeoinfo.msl.mt.gov/Data/Spatial/MSDI/GeographicNames/Archive/MT_GNIS_2002.zip http://mslapps.mt.gov/Geographic_Information/Data/DataList/datalist_Details.aspx?did={0c57ebe2-f8e8-4d55-b159-ab3202898956} An automated inventory of the names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States. Contains the location of all names on all U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) maps of Montana and all federal and local maps inventoried by the USGS. Includes populated places, mountain peaks, rivers and streams, schools, farms, glaciers, railroad sidings, etc. This version of the GNIS was downloaded from the USGS web site on September 24, 2002, converted to ESRI format, and the coordinates were converted to Montana State Plane Coordinates. The GNIS contains a list of over 23,000 un-named wells and springs and 2,000 places with unknown coordinates, which have been deleted from this copy. This version of the data is missing the GNIS feature-id field, which is the unique identifier for each feature. Where the GNIS contains multiple coordinates for a feature, the data point is located at the primary coordinate. For streams, this is usually the mouth of the stream, which may be outside of Montana. Each feature is represented in this layer by its "primary point". A geographic feature may have only one primary point regardless of size or extent. The following rules for primary points were applicable in the mid 2000's, it is not known if the rules were exactly the same in 2002. The primary point of a linear feature depends on the feature class. If feature class equals stream, valley or arroyo, the primary point is the mouth. The primary point of a canal, channel, or trail is the center. The primary point of an areal feature is the approximate geographic center with the following exceptions: The primary point of a populated place is the center of original place, if known, such as the city or town hall, main post office, or town square regardless of changes over time; The primary point of a reservoir is the center of the dam; The primary point of a summit, range, ridge, or pillar is the highest point. These points do not represent feature boundaries or geometries and should not be confused with them. The GNIS is an inventory and location of place names, to promote geographic feature name standardization and to serve as the Federal Government's repository of information regarding feature name spellings and applications for features in U.S. The names listed in the inventory can be published on Federal maps, charts, and in other documents. The feature locative information has been used in emergency preparedness, marketing, site-selection and analysis, genealogical and historical research, and transportation routing applications. 2002 Publication Date -116.848297 -102.610703 49.621300 43.738899 ISO 19115 Topic Category elevation environment geoscientificInformation imageryBaseMapsEarthCover inlandWaters location structure GNIS Geographic Names Place Names geonames Montana None While this data set is useful for locating features, it is not intended to locate what features are near a location or within a given area. Large features such as streams and national forests are represented here by a single point, and the absence from the GNIS of a point for a feature in any area does not mean the feature is not in that area. The Montana State Library provides this product/service for informational purposes only. The Library did not produce it for, nor is it suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. Consumers of this information should review or consult the primary data and information sources to ascertain the viability of the information for their purposes. The Library provides these data in good faith but does not represent or warrant its accuracy, adequacy, or completeness. In no event shall the Library be liable for any incorrect results or analysis; any direct, indirect, special, or consequential damages to any party; or any lost profits arising out of or in connection with the use or the inability to use the data or the services provided. The Library makes these data and services available as a convenience to the public, and for no other purpose. The Library reserves the right to change or revise published data and/or services at any time. Montana State Library mailing address

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Helena Montana 59620-1800 406-444-5354 Montana Relay 711 406-444-0266 geoinfo@mt.gov The attributes were copied directly from the GNIS files. The State Library has not performed any quality checking on this data. At the USGS, a random sample of 10% of the entries in the system were visually verified against the compilation source data (large-scale USGS topographic maps) to ensure an accuracy rate of at least 95%. U.S. Geological Survey 2002 Feature names and attribute information U.S. Board on Geographic Names Unpublished material Feature names and attribute information U.S. Forest Service Unpublished material Feature names and attribute information U.S. Geological Survey 200209 http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisftp.html The records in this data set were selected from this source. GNIS Phase I data compilation and edit Feature name and attribute data are collected from the largest-scale USGS topographic maps available. These data are compared to the records of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and U.S. Forest Service maps, Office of Coast Survey charts, Federal Aviation Administration files, Federal Communications Commission files, and files of the Army Corps of Engineers. 1981 GNIS Phase II data compilation and edit Feature name and attribute data are collected from State, locally, and privately published current and historical maps, charts, and texts. 2002 GNIS Maintenance program Maintenance cooperators feed GNIS new names and corrections discovered in the course of new mapping and revision activities and implementation of the national geographic names standarization program. 2002 U.S. Geological Survey Robin D. Worcester Chief, Geographic Names Information Section mailing address

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Reston VA 20192 703-648-4551 rworcest@usgs.gov Convert the GNIS file to ESRI format and Montana State Plane Coordinates, remove un-named wells and springs. 20020924 Point Point 51713 State Plane Coordinate System 2500 45.00 49.00 -109.50 44.25 600000.00 0.00 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.00 298.257222 NGVD29 1 FEET Attribute values Montana_GNIS_2002 Point Feature Class FID Shapefile sequence number Shape Feature geometry GNIS_ Feature sequence number ID Feature sequence number NAME Name of feature CLASS Type of feature Airport manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip) Arch natural arch-like opening in a rock mass (bridge, natural bridge, sea arch) Area any one of several areally extensive natural features not included in other categories (badlands, barren, delta, fan, garden) Arroyo watercourse or channel through which water may occasionally flow (coulee, draw, gully, wash) Bar natural accumulation of sand, gravel, or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (ledge, reef, sandbar, shoal, spit) Basin natural depression or relatively low area enclosed by higher land (amphitheater, cirque, pit, sink) Bay indentation of a coastline or shoreline enclosing a part of a body of water; a body of water partly surrounded by land (arm, bight, cove, estuary, gulf, inlet, sound) Beach the sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel (coast, shore, strand) Bench area of relatively level land on the flank of an elevation such as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises on one side and descends on the opposite side Bend curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander) Bridge manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle) Building a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school Canal manmade waterway used by watercraft or for drainage, irrigation, mining, or water power (ditch, lateral) Cape projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point) Cemetery a place or area for burying the dead (burial, burying ground, grave, memorial garden) Census areas designated by the U.S. Census Bureau Channel linear deep part of a body of water through which the main volume of water flows and is frequently used as aroute for watercraft (passage, reach, strait, thoroughfare, throughfare) Church building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple) Civil political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township) Cliff very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock) Crater circular-shaped depression at the summit of a volcanic cone or one on the surface of the land caused by the impact of a meteorite; a manmade depression caused by an explosion (caldera, lua) Crossing a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass) Dam water barrier or embankment built across the course of a stream or into a body of water to control and (or) impound the flow of water (breakwater, dike, jetty) Falls perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall) Flat relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa) Forest bounded area of woods, forest, or grassland under the administration of a political agency (see "woods") (national forest, national grasslands, State forest) Gap low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap) Glacier body or stream of ice moving outward and downslope from an area of accumulation; an area of relatively permanent snow or ice on the top or side of a mountain or mountainous area (icefield, ice patch, snow patch) Gut relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough) Harbor sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead) Hospital building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary) Island area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock) Lake natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole) Levee natural or manmade embankment flanking a stream (bank, berm) Locale place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill) Military historical and current military camps, cemetaries, and other facilities Mine place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft) Oilfield area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth Other Park place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource and under some form of government administration; not including National or State forests or Reserves (national historical landmark, national park, State park, wilderness area) Pillar vertical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower) Plain a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland) po Post Office - an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material ppl Populated Place - a place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village) Range chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra) Rapids fast-flowing section of a stream, often shallow and with exposed rock or boulders (riffle, ripple) Reserve a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks) Reservoir artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank) Ridge elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur) School building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university) Slope a gently inclined part of the Earth's surface (grade, pitch) Spring place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep) Stream linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough) Summit prominent elevation rising above the surrounding level of the Earth's surface; does not include pillars, ridges, or ranges (ahu, berg, bald, butte, cerro, colina, cone, cumbre, dome, head, hill, horn, knob, knoll, mauna, mesa, mesita, mound, mount, mountain, peak, puu, rock, sugarloaf, table, volcano) Swamp poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin) Tower a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission Trail route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail) Tunnel linear underground passageway open at both ends Valley linear depression in the Earth's surface that generally slopes from one end to the other (barranca, canyon, chasm, cove, draw, glen, gorge, gulch, gulf, hollow, ravine) Well manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials COUNTY Name of County the feature's primary point is in. LAT Latitude of the feature's primary point, NAD27. LON Longitude of the feature's primary point, NAD27. LAT2 This is the the latitude of the source or upper end of a valley or stream, NAD27. LON2 This is the the longitude of the source or upper end of a valley or stream, NAD27. ELEV Elevation in feet. This field is NOT filled out for most of the points. QUADNAME Name of 7.5-minute USGS quadrangle the feature's primary point is in. Montana State Library mailing address

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