FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES OF NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM UNITS IN FLORIDA - 2010

Geodataset Name:       NPS_MAY10
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         11
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains National Park Service unit boundaries for the State of Florida.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    National Park Service
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20100506 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20020201 End Date: 20100506 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: NPS_MAY10.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
UNIT_TYPE
50 String
PARKNAME
28 String
STATE
2 String
REGION
2 String
UNIT_CODE
16 String
UNIT_NAME
254 String
DATE_EDIT
36 Date
GIS_NOTES
254 String
ACRES
8 Double
DESCRIPT
45 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

UNIT_TYPE Type of unit boundary (i.e. Park, Preserve, Memorial, Monument...)

PARKNAME National Park Name.

STATE State

REGION Region

UNIT_CODE Four letter code to define the National Park unit.

UNIT_NAME Name of the National Park unit.

DATE_EDIT The last update or offical review of the object.

GIS_NOTES Free text.

ACRES Number of Acres

DESCRIPT GeoPlan added field based on UNIT_NAME

FGDLAQDATE The date GeoPlan acquired the data from the Source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters

Attributes are as follows: Shape, GIS_Loc_ID, Unit_Code, 
Group_Code, Unit_Name, Unit_Type, Meta_MIDF, Lands_Code, Date_Edit, GIS_Notes
USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
NPS:
The data set is complete but subject to continual updates to reflect 
boundary amendments, legislation, and acquisitions, and improved processing techniques.
The data is being regularly updated with verified boundaries from NPS Land Resources Division.  
Please contact the data originator with corrections and update suggestions.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

Service wide boundary set for display and general analysis purposes.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

NPS:
The data is intended for use as a tool for display and general GIS analysis purposes only.  
It is in no way intended for engineering or legal purposes.  The data accuracy is checked 
against best available sources which may be dated.  NPS assumes no liability for use of this data.
Boundaries from the Land Resources Division have separate polygons for each type of unit.  For 
example Denali National Park and Denali National Preserve are separate individual polygons.

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section of this documentation. For more information regarding
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http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
NPS DATA Store
http://science.nature.nps.gov/nrdata

Current Administrative Boundaries of National Park System Units (05/06/2010)
http://nrdata.nps.gov/programs/lands/nps_boundary.zip

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Boundary polygons for several units were verified data from the Lands Resources 
Division (LRD) according to the procedures defined in the Lands Acquisition 
Procedures Manual Chapter 5.  Boundary data from LRD has separate polygons 
for individual types of units like Denali National Park and Denali National 
Preserve.  Lands records in the dataset that can be identified by querying for 
[GIS_Notes] = "Lands" in the attribute table.  These parks include: Abraham 
Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (ABLI), Adams National Historical Park 
(ADAM), African Burial Ground National Monument (AFBG), Agate Fossil Beds 
National Monument (AGFO), Alagnak Wild River (ALAG), Alibates Flint Quarries 
National Monument (ALFL), Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (ANJO), 
Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (ANIA), Antietam National Battlefield
(ANTI), Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (APCO), Arches 
National Park (ARCH), Arlington House - Robert E. Lee Memorial (ARHO), Aztec 
Ruins National Monument (AZRU), Badlands National Park (BADL), Bering Land 
Bridge National Preserve (BELA), Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park 
(BLCA), Boston National Historical Park (BOST), Boston African American (BOAF), 
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (BOHA), Bryce Canyon National 
Park (BRCA), Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site (BRCR), Brown v Board
 of Education National Historic Site (BRVB), Buck Island Reef National Monument
 (BUIS). Buffalo National River (BUFF), Cabrillo National Monument (CABR), 
Canaveral National Seashore (CANA), Cane River Creole National Historical Park 
(CARI), Capitol Reef national Park (CARE),Carl Sandburg Home (CARL), Cape 
Krusenstern National Monument (CAKR), Capulin Volcano National Monument 
(CAVO), Carlsbad Caverns National Park (CAVE), Carter G. Woodson National 
Historic Site (CAWO), Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (CASA), Castle 
Clinton Monument (CACL), Catoctin Mountain Park (CATO), Cedar Breaks 
National Monument (CEBR), Cedar Creek and Belle Grove (CEBE), Chaco Culture
National Historical Park (CHCU), Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (CHPI), 
Chickasaw National Recreation Area (CHIC), Chiricahua National Monument 
(CHIR), Chamizal National Memorial (CHAM), Channel Islands National Park 
(CHIS), Christiansted National Historic Site (CHRI),  Clara Barton National Historic 
Site (CLBA), Colorado National Monument (COLM), Cowpens National Battlefield 
(COWP), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (CUGA), Cuyahoga Valley 
National Park (CUVA), Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (DAAV), 
Denali National Park (DENA), De Soto National Memorial (DESO), Devils Postpile 
National Monument (DEPO), Devils Tower National Monument (DETO), Dry 
Tortugas National Park (DRTO), Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (EDAL), 
Edison National Historic Site (EDIS), Effigy Mounds National Monument (EFMO), 
El Morro National Monument (ELMO), Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site 
(ELRO), Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site (EUON), Federal Hall National 
Memorial (FEHA), First Ladies National Historic Site (FILA), Flight 93 National 
Memorial (FLNI), Florissant Fossil Beds (FLFO), Ford's Theatre National Historic 
Site (FOTH), Fort Bowie National Historic Site (FOBO), Fort Davis National Historic
Site (FODA), Fort Frederica National Monument (FOFR), Fort Laramie National 
Historic Site (FOLA), Fort Matanzas National Monument (FOMA), Fort Point 
National Historic Site (FOPO), Fort Smith National Historic Site (FOSM), Fort 
Sumter National Monument (FOSU), Fort Union National Monument (FOUN), Fort 
Union Trading Post National Historic Site (FOUS), Fort Washington Park (FOWA), 
Fossil Butte National Monument (FOBU), Frederick Douglass National Historic Site 
(FRDO), Gates of the Arctic National Park (GAAR), General Grant National 
Memorial (GEGR), George Washington Carver National Monument (GWCA), 
Grand Portage National Monument (GRPO), Greenbelt Park (GREE),George 
Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP), Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument 
(GICL), Glacier Bay National Park (GLBA), Golden Gate National Recreation Area 
(GOGA), Governors Island National Monument (GOIS), Grand Teton National Park
(GRTE), Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (GRKO), Great Basin National 
Park (GRBA), Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (GRSA), Hamilton 
Grange National Memorial (HAGR), Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (HAFE),
Harry S Truman National Historic Site (HSTR), Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park 
(HAVO), Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (HEHO), Home of Franklin D 
Roosevelt National Historic Site (HOFR), Homestead National Monument 
(HOME), Horseshoe Bend National Military Park (HOBE), Hot Springs National 
Park (HOSP), Hovenweep National Monument (HOVE), Hubbell Trading Post 
National Historic Site (HUTR), Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IATR), Indiana 
Dunes National Lakeshore (INDU), James A Garfield National Historic Site 
(JAGA), Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (JELA), Jimmy Carter 
National Historic Site (JICA), John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway (JODR), 
Joshua Tree National Park (JOTR), Kalaupapa National Historical Park (KALA), 
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park (KAHO), Katmai National Park 
(KATM), Kenai Fjords National Park (KEFJ), Kennesaw Mountain National 
Battlefield Park (KEMO), Keweenaw National Historical Park (KEWE), Kings 
Canyon National Park (KICA), Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park 
(KLGO), Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (KNRI), Kobuk Valley 
National Park (KOVA), Lake Clark National Park (LACL), Lake Mead National 
Recreation Area (LAKE), Lassen Volcanic National Park (LAVO), Lewis and Clark 
National Historic Trail (LECL), Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (LIBO), Lincoln 
Home National Historic Site (LIHO), Little Rock Central High School National 
Historic Site (CHSC), Lava Bed National Monument (LABE), Little Bighorn 
Battlefield National Monument (LIBI), Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove 
(LYBA), Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA), Manassas National Battlefield 
Park (MANA), Manzanar National Historic Site (MANZ), Martin Luther King Jr. 
National Historic Site (MALU), Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (MAVA), 
Mesa Verde National Park (MEVE), Mary McLeod Bethune Council House 
National Historic Site (MABE), Minute Man National Historical Park (MIMA), 
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (MIMI), Mojave National Preserve 
(MOJA), Monocacy National Battlefield (MONO), Montezuma Castle National 
Monument (MOCA), Moores Creek National Battlefield (MOCR), Mount Rushmore 
National Memorial (MORU), Natchez National Historical Park (NATC), National 
Capital Parks (NACP), National Mall (MALL), Navajo National Monument (NAVA), 
Nicodemus National Historic Site (NICO), Ninety Six National Historic Site (NISI), 
Niobrara National Scenic River (NIOB), Noatak National Preserve (NOAT), Organ
Pipe Cactus National Monument (ORPI), Ozark National Scenic Riverway 
(OZAR), Padre Island National Seashore (PAIS), Palo Alto Battlefield National 
Historic Site (PAAL), Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (PEVI), 
Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO), Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (PIRO), 
Pipe Spring National Monument (PISP), Pipestone National Monument (PIPE), 
Piscataway Park (PISC), Point Reyes National Seashore (PORE), Pu'uhonua o 
Honaunau National Historical Park (PUHO), Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic 
Site (PUHE), Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site (RRBH), Salt 
River Bay National Historical Park (SARI), Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site 
(SAGA), Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site (SAPA), Salem Maritime 
National Historic Site (SAMA), Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area 
(SAMO), Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (SAND), Scotts Bluff 
National Monument (SCBL), Sequoia National Park (SEQU), Sitka National 
Historical Park (SITK), Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (SUCR), 
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (TAPR), Theodore Roosevelt National Park 
(THRO), Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site (THRB), Theodore 
Roosevelt Island National Memorial (THIS), Thomas Jefferson Memorial (JEFM), 
Thomas Stone National Historic Site (THST), Timpanogos Cave National 
Monument (TICA), Tonto National Monument (TONT), Tumacacori National 
Historical Park (TUMA), Tupelo National Battlefield (TUPE), Tuskegee Airmen 
National Historic Site (TUAI), Tuzigoot National Monument (TUZI), Ulysses S. 
Grant National Historic Site (ULSG), Valley Forge National Historical Park (VAFO), 
Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument(VICR), Voyageurs National Park 
(VOYA), Walnut Canyon National Monument (WACA). War in the Pacific National 
Historical Park (WAPA), Washington Monument (WAMO), Washita Battlefield 
National Historic Site (WABA), White Sands National Monument (WHSA), 
Whitman Mission National Historic Site (WHMI), Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity 
National Recreation Area (WHIS), Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (WICR), 
Wind Cave National Park (WICA), Wolf Trap Farm Park (WOTR), Wrangell-St. 
Elias National Park (WRST), Wupatki National Monument (WUPA), Yellowstone 
National Park (YELL), Yosemite National Park (YOSE), Yucca House National 
Monument (YUHO), Yukon-Charley Rivers (YUCH), Zion National Park (ZION)
Process Date: 20100506

Two sets of boundaries were collected and compared. The main set was obtained from David Duran, who collected boundaries from each region in the summer of 2001. The second set was obtained from Dean Tucker, who digitized boundaries for the Horizon Project. The main set from David Duran was determined to contain the most recent boundary information. Parks missing from David's set were added from Deans set. Those parks are; Antietam NB Arlington House, Benjamin Franklin NMEM, Big Hole NB, Catoctin Mountain Park, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP, Chimney Rock NHS, Fort Point NHS, Fredericksburg NC, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Green Springs, Harpers Ferry NHP, International Peace Garden, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kalaupapa NHP, Manassas NBP, McLoughlin House NHS, Monocacy NB, National Capital Parks - Central and East, Olympic NP, Prince William Forest Park, Rock Creek Park, San Francisco Maritime NHP, Thaddeus Kosciuszko NMEM, and Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts. Park/Region staff were consulted for parks with major differences between the two sets. Process Date: 2002
Boundaries were updated with data provided by National Parks or Regional Offices. Process Date: 20100506
GeoPlan downloaded the following dataset from the National Park Service website (http://science.nature.nps.gov/nrdata/) on May 26th, 2010. http://nrdata.nps.gov/programs/lands/nps_boundary.zip The original data was in shapefile format and was in the following projection: North_American_Datum_1983 Angular Unit: Degree (0.017453292519943299) Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.000000000000000000) Datum: D_North_American_1983 Spheroid: Geodetic Reference System of 1980 Semimajor Axis: 6378137.000000000000000000 Semiminor Axis: 6356752.314140349600000000 Inverse Flattening: 298.257222100911290000 GeoPlan performed the following steps: - Reprojected the data to the FGDL Albers NAD83 HARN format. - Selected all features that intersected the Florida County Boundaries - All records were upcased. - Changed original layer name from nps_boundary.shp to nps_may10.shp. - Added ACRES field and calculated acres using ArcMap 9.2 - A DESCRIPT field was added based on UNIT_NAME - A FGDLAQDATE field was added based on date of download. Process Date: 20100526
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20100613
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

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Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
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NPS
301 S. Howes St. Suite 208
Fort Collins, CO
80522
REQUIRED: The telephone number by which individuals can speak to the organization or individual.

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