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<title>Index grid of USGS 3.75x3.75 1:12,000 quadrangles for the United States including the lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico</title>
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<themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Category</themekt>
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<accconst>No Access Constraints, can be distributed to the public and all external partners.</accconst>
<useconst>The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Service Center Agencies should be acknowledged as the data source in products derived from these data.

This data set is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference source.  This is public information and may be interpreted by organizations, agencies, units of government, or others based on needs; however, they are responsible for the appropriate application.  Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to reassign to the Service Center Agencies any authority for the decisions that they make.  The Service Center Agencies will not perform any evaluations of these data for purposes related solely to State or local regulatory programs.

Photographic or digital enlargement of these data to scales greater than at which they were originally mapped can cause misinterpretation of the data.  Digital data files are periodically updated, and users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the data.</useconst>
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<sechandl>Data with no confidentiality are accessible to all requester categories, including the General Public, with limited to no restrictions.</sechandl>
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<city>Fort Worth</city>
<state>Texas</state>
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<attraccr>Quad names were spot checked against DRGs and appeared to be correct.</attraccr>
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<logic>ESRI feature type: , Geometry: , Topology: </logic>
<complete>Data are complete for the United States Virgin Islands.</complete>
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<horizpar>Undocumented in original metadata, but accuracy should be near perfect, since the vertices of the grid are for predetermined lat/longs.</horizpar>
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<procdesc>USGS GNIS Cells database. http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:1:3109801262764. Theoretical Grid Extract 3.75 quads, add FIPS code, add North South East West fields</procdesc>
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<state>TX</state>
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<procstep>
<procdate>20060321</procdate>
<procdesc>Data were processed in the following steps by Harvey Simon of EPA Region 2 GIS on 03/14/06:
1) Downloaded individual merged grid shapefile for the lower 48 and separate files for Alaska,, Hawaii and Puerto Rico from USDA/NRCS Gateway (https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov/
2) Ran summary statistics and visually inspected the output shapefile to check for duplicate polygons, none were found.
3) Imported text metadata record from gateway, and edited then ran through USGS metadata parser.
5) Imported data into Oracle Spatial using R2 data conversion procedures</procdesc>
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<cntpos>GIS Coordinator</cntpos>
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<city>New York</city>
<state>NY</state>
<postal>10007</postal>
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<cntvoice>202-566-0719</cntvoice>
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<origin>USGS and NRCS</origin>
<pubdate>20020619</pubdate>
<title>Quadrangle Index</title>
<geoform>vector digital data</geoform>
<onlink>http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GatewayHome.html</onlink>
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<altunits>undefined</altunits>
<altenc>Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates</altenc>
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<geograph>
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<longres>0.000001</longres>
<geogunit>Decimal degrees</geogunit>
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<ellips>Geodetic Reference System 1980</ellips>
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<eaover>Attributes in the index maps identify the file and quad names, quad scales, quad dates and locational FIPS code.  Geographic coordinates for the bottom, top, left and right sides of each quad are provided as well.</eaover>
<eadetcit>Relevant attributes are: Cell_id     - Unique ID from the GNIS GCNDB 
Quadname    - Quadrangle Name from GNIS
State_Code  - Two character primary state abbreviation on which the quad is located
MRC_Code    - USGS Map Reference Code  http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnbecker/usgsmaps.htm
QuadID      - DEM/DOQ style (1-64) quadid for DOQ with nw,ne,sw,se attached
S_LAT       - Latitude (in Decimal Degrees) of the south edge of the cell
E_LONG      - Longitude (in Decimal Degrees) of the east edge of the cell
N_LAT       - Latitude (in Decimal Degrees) of the north edge of the cell
W_LONG      - Longitude (in Decimal Degrees) of the west edge of the cell
extent_typ - U=Undersized O=Oversized I=Irregular S=Standard On Grid F=Standard Off Grid
Bottom      - South bound
Top         - North Bound
Left        - West Bound
Right       - East Bound
FIPS_C      - Space separated list of State/County FIPS code of county within one mile of quarter quad</eadetcit>
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