USFWS National Wildlife Refuge Boundaries - Gulf of Maine
Coverage Name and Path: /gis/gom/cv/nwrs; fgdc metadata for this shapefile
Geographic Extent: Gulf of Maine Watershed
Scale: 1:24,000
Automation Date: Varies by refuge (last download by GOMP was MAR 2003 from USFWS R5 Cartography and Spatial Data Services web site) as shown in table below. Links go to metadata downloaded from R5 Realty:
REFUGE (links to official metadata) |
STATE |
DIVISION (links to official metadata) |
DATE (of file) |
ME |
08/21/2001 |
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| Assabet River (metadata n/a) | MA |
02/07/2002 |
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| Carlton Pond (WPA) |
ME |
07/23/1997 |
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| Great Bay | NH |
03/14/2002 |
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| Great Meadows | MA |
Concord | 07/20/2001 |
| Sudbury | 01/21/1998 |
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| John Hay | NH |
11/05/2002 |
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| Karner Blue Butterfly | NH |
08/27/1997 |
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| Lake Umbagog | NH |
05/18/2000 |
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| Mashpee | MA |
02/12/2002 |
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| Massasoit | MA |
05/19/1999 |
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| Monomoy | MA |
05/25/2000 |
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| Moosehorn | ME |
02/26/1998 |
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| Edmunds | 02/05/1998 |
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| Nantucket | MA |
10/01/2001 |
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| Nomans Land Island | MA |
02/14/2001 |
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| Oxbow | MA |
11/09/1999 |
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| Parker River | MA |
11/23/2001 |
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| Petit Manan | ME |
10/22/1999 |
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| Rachel Carson | ME |
Biddeford Pool | 10/10/2002 |
| Brave Boat Harbor | 09/09/2002 |
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| Goosefare Brook | 09/09/2002 |
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| Goose Rocks | 10/23/2002 |
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| Little River | 08/21/2002 |
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| Lower Wells | 09/16/2002 |
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| Moody | 09/25/2002 |
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| Mousam River | 10/16/2002 |
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| Spurwink River | 10/02/2002 |
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| Upper Wells | 10/31/2002 |
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| Sunkhaze Meadows | ME |
01/29/1998 |
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| Thacher Island | MA |
07/01/1995 |
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| Wapack | NH |
11/12/2002 |
Automation Agency: USFWS, R5 Cartography and Spatial Data Services; last 4 items calculated by GOMP
Source of Data: Same as above
Description: National Wildlife Refuge Boundaries. See R5 Cartography and Spatial Data Services for more information and specific FGDC metadata on each Refuge. Some parcels include intertidal areas and some don't - uncertain of reasoning on this.
Polygon coding:
| Item Name |
Definition |
| tractno |
uncertain coding |
| status |
nature of land ownership relative to the Refuge System |
| a = approved (may also be l = legislative in older files);boundary approved by Congress for acquisition by USFWS into the National Wildlife Refuge System | |
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o = owned; land currently owned by USFWS |
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e = easement; land where USFWS shares jurisdiction through an easement or lease |
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s = secondary; USFWS holds a secondary interest to another federal agency or agencies |
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x = exclusion; area internal to a closed legislative polygon that is excluded from acquisition |
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u = uncertain; status of parcel is uncertain because it is unknown, disputed, or requires additional research in Realty |
| nwrunit |
3 letter abbreviation to smallest refuge division recognized by R5 Realty |
| nwrname |
3-letter abbreviation of full refuge name, assigned by R5 Realty |
| ifwsno |
administrative number assigned to each refuge by Washington Realty |
| name |
nwrname spelled out |
| unit |
nwrunit spelled out |
| acres |
acreage caculated from shape area |
| gompnote |
comments added by the Gulf of Maine Program |
| NOTE: |
ARC layer may include coding for 'status' and the values may be combined to indicate the status is different on each side of the arc. |
Arc Coding: (coding may be incomplete)
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Item Name |
Definition |
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status |
nature of land ownership relative to the Refuge System |
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a = approved (may also be l=legislative in older files);boundary approved by Congress for acquisition by USFWS into the National Wildlife Refuge System |
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o = owned; external boundary of land currently owned by USFWS |
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e = easement; boundary of land where USFWS shares jurisdiction through an easement or lease |
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s = secondary; boundary of land that USFWS holds a secondary interest to another federal agency or agencies |
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p = parcel; parcel line representing a unit of acquisition; used especially for private inholdings |
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NOTE: |
These values may be combined (e.g., "lo" or "le") to indicate that the boundary status is different on each side of the arc |
Data Restrictions: This data may be redistributed freely with this documentation.
Status: Complete; updated irregularly
Projection: UTM Zone 19, meters, NAD83
File Type/Format: shapefile
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