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Public Land Survey Digitized Map Data of Grand Kankakee Marsh, Indiana, circa 1830s

Dates

Early 19th Century
1800-01-01
Early 19th Century
1850-12-31

Citation

Samniqueka Halsey(Principal Investigator), Jody Peters(Co-Investigator), Tamatha A. Patterson(Co-Investigator), Public Land Survey Digitized Map Data of Grand Kankakee Marsh, Indiana, circa 1830s , https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/609031a6d34e93746a710564

Summary

This geodatabase contains layers pertaining to the Public Land Survey. It included a pre-settlement landcover polygon shapefile (KankLandcover.shp) for the area of interest in Indiana: Elkhart, Newton, Jasper, Starke, Marshall, and the north and central portion of Kosciusko, and northwest portion of Benton County, Lake, Porter, LaPorte, and St. Joseph Counties as well as the area of interest in Illinois: Will, Kankakee, and Iroquois Counties along with townships within surrounding counties (Grundy, Ford, Vermillion) within the Kankakee watershed . This database also includes a hydrologic features shapefile (hydrologic) of digitized water features including rivers and streams, drains, rapids, springs, runs, etc. It should be noted that [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Tamatha A. Patterson, Jody Peters, FWS Science Applications National Data Steward, Upper Midwest & Great Lakes LCC Data Manager
publisher :
University of Notre Dame
Principal Investigator :
Samniqueka Halsey
Co-Investigator :
Jody Peters, Tamatha A. Patterson
Custodian :
Tamatha A. Patterson
administrator :
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Cooperator/Partner :
University of Notre Dame, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
Upper Midwest & Great Lakes LCC Data Manager, Tamatha A. Patterson
Material Request Contact :
Upper Midwest & Great Lakes LCC Data Manager, Tamatha A. Patterson

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metadata.xml
Original ISO Metadata
View 		91.46 KB application/vnd.iso.19139-2+xml
md_metadata.json 98 KB application/json
PLSVegTypeKey.csv
“pre-settlement vegetation classes” 		13.56 KB text/csv
KankakeeGEO.gdb.zip
“Kankakee pre-settlement geodatabase” 		2.89 MB application/zip
DigitizingInstructions.pdf
“digitizing protocol” 		607.66 KB application/pdf
Map details.zip
“kankakee pre-settlement shapefiles ” 		10.89 MB application/zip
Screenshot 2021-05-03 134437.jpg
“Kankakee pre-settlement vegetation preview” 		thumbnail 610.17 KB image/jpeg

Material Request Instructions

Upper Midwest & Great Lakes LCC Data Manager(Distributor); Tamatha A. Patterson(Distributor)

Purpose

This purpose of this geodatabase is to house all the shapefiles pertaining to the digitizing the Public Land Survey of the Kankakee Watershed region in Indiana and Illinois.

Rights

unrestricted - no constraints exist
Kankakee pre-settlement vegetation preview
Kankakee pre-settlement vegetation preview

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Communities

  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal
  • Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative

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