U.S. Geographic Names Information System Cemetery represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. This data set is a subset of features in the southern and eastern states.
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:100,000.
publication date
The points represent physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.(Source:
United States Geological Survey)
Internal feature number.(Source:
ESRI)
Feature geometry.(Source:
ESRI)
The name of the geographic feature.(Source:
United States Geological Survey, United States Board on Geographic Names)
The combined state/territory and county FIPS code (five-digit number). The combined code uniquely identifies the county in which the geographic feature is located.(Source:
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
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| Codeset name: | Federal Information Processing Standards |
| Codeset source: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
United States Board on Geographic Names; United States Forest Service; Office of Coast Survey; Federal Communications Commission; Federal Aviation Administration; United States Army Corps of Engineers
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Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), of which U.S. Geographic Names Information System Cemetery is a part, promotes geographic feature name standardization and serves as the Federal Government's repository of information regarding feature name spellings and applications for features in United States and its Territories. 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.
Attribute and geospatial data
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) contains name and locative information about almost 2 million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States and its Territories. GNIS was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names. GNIS is being compiled in phases. The first phase is complete for the entire United States, and entailed the collection of names from Federal sources including large-scale USGS topographic maps, Office of Coast Survey charts, U.S. Forest Service maps, and digital datasets distributed by the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. These data are compared to the records of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The second phase of data collection is complete or in progress for about 80% of the United States, and captures names from State, locally, and other published current and historical maps, charts, and texts. 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 standardization program. In both processes, 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 attribute accuracy rate of at least 95%. Locative references (geographic coordinates, topographic map, and county) were crosschecked for logical consistency. Additionally, this dataset was created by selecting features in the southern and eastern states.
The following steps were performed by ESRI: Downloaded each data set from http://mapping.usgs.gov/pub/gnis, extracted, and assembled all into a national data set. Ran ArcView command Add Event Theme on the data set to create the point location centroids from the latitude/longitude coordinate attributes. Converted United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands to North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). Selected each feature type from the type field. Reduced the width of the Name attribute. Removed the Type attribute. Created ArcGIS™ layer file (.lyr). Created ArcView legend file (.avl). Created projection file (.prj). Ran ArcView Avenue request ExportClean, and created spatial indices.
Dataset copied.
Dataset copied.
The geospatial part of this data set was calculated from latitude/longitude coordinates accurate to within +/- 5 seconds of latitude or longitude. The horizontal positional accuracy is equal to or better than 506 feet.
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
No duplicate features are present. The shapefile is exported using Avenue request ExportClean. This request verifies and enforces the correctness of shapes.
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Data format: |
in format SHP
The SHP file contains the geospatial data. The SHX file contains the index of the geospatial data. The DBF file contains the attribute data in dBASE format. The PRJ file contains the coordinate system information (optional). The AVL file contains the legend information (optional). The SBN and SBX files contain the spatial index of the geospatial data (optional). The XML file contains the metadata describing the data set <data set name>.shp.xml (optional).Size: 13.288 |
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