Dungeness River Area Land Cover, 1914

Metadata:

Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Penelope Jennings Eckert
Publication_Date: 19980604
Title: Dungeness River Area Land Cover, 1914
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Publisher: University of Washington
Other_Citation_Details:
This coverage was produced as part of Penelope Eckert's PhD thesis for the University of Washington College of Forest Resources, Social Sciences
Online_Linkage:
http://www.onrc.washington.edu/pub/clearinghouse/penelope/claldata/landcover/lc1914.e00.gz
Description:
Abstract:
This coverage is a land cover map of the lower Dungeness river watershed, northern Olympic peninsula, Washington, USA. This map was based on section maps drawn by the Clallam County tax assessor's office and on the accompanying notes. These original maps were used to create a vegetation coverage of the study area. This vegetation coverage was then reclassified into land cover classes that had been established for the land cover maps based on airphoto interpretation (see land cover coverage 1956, 1965, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1994). Land cover was classified based on water use. Thus all kinds of (unirrigated) forest were lumped together as forest if their crowns were closed, while an area of grass might be lawn, field, grassy/brushy, or pasture, depending on its apparent use.
Purpose:
The purpose of this coverage is to be a part of a time series of coverages which show land cover and water use changes in the lower Dungeness watershed from 1859 to 1994
Supplemental_Information:
More detailed information about these coverages is available in Penelope Eckert's PhD Thesis, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, June 1998.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19140101
Ending_Date: 19141231
Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned

 

 
 
 

Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.2917
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.0333
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.16667
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.01667
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: land cover
Theme_Keyword: land use
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Olympic peninsula
Place_Keyword: Dungeness river watershed
Place_Keyword: Dungeness river
Place_Keyword: Washington
Place_Keyword: Sequim
Place_Keyword: Carlsborg
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Penelope Jennings Eckert
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing Address
Address:
Box 352100, College of Forest Resources,

University of Washington
City: Seattle
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98195
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 543-0102
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peckert@fwenc.com
Native_Data_Set_Environment: UNIX-ARC/INFO
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: none
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Coverage is topologically clean. Test performed using ArcInfo 7.1
Completeness_Report:
The tax assessor's maps from which this coverage was built contained a wealth of information, carefully sketched to scale, for each person's lands. They noted and mapped each and every building, including its size, construction, and location. They noted creeks and irrigation ditches, roads, trails, and fencelines. Each field, orchard, and barnyard was mapped and annotated, down to areas of less than an acre. Because of the wealth of information on these maps they were digitized into different layers including streams, ditches, buildings, and vegetation. The vegetation layer had all boundaries between classes and roads as mapped by the tax assessor. Two categories on the tax assessor's maps where grouped on the vegetation map. The tax assessor specified the number of stumps per acre, these were grouped as 'stumpy lands'. All fully cleared lands were grouped together as 'cultivated'. The vegetation categories were then reclassified to match land cover categories designated for the land cover maps produced through air photo interpretation. The following is the key for conversion between the vegetation map categories and the land cover map categories: roads = built; railroads = built; water = water; salt marsh = grassy/brushy; fresh marsh = grassy/brushy; gulch = bare; beach = bare; slashed = grassy/brushy; stumpy = field; cultivated = field; house/barnyard = built; orchard = field; town of Sequim = Sequim, not mapped; conifer forest, including logged with regrowth = forest; hardwood forest, including logged with regrowth = forest; burned, logged conifer forest = grassy/brushy; burned hardwood forest, regrowth = grassy/brushy
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: none
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: none
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Clallam County tax assessor
Publication_Date: 191412
Title: Clallam County Tax Assessment Maps
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Map
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Clallam County, Washington
Publisher: Clallam County, Washington
Other_Citation_Details:
These are 16x16 inch watercolor and ink maps for each square mile section. On the back of each map are accompanying notes for each quarter-quarter section (40 acre units)
Source_Scale_Denominator: 3960
Type_of_Source_Media: Paper
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19140101
Ending_Date: 19141231
Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 1914 Assessor's Maps
Source_Contribution:
These assessor's maps were used to develop the vegetation and land cover coverages for 1914.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Land cover maps for 1914 were based on section maps drawn by the Clallam county tax assessor's office and on the accompanying notes. The 16x16 inch maps are stored in several large binders in the tax assessor's office, Clallam County Courthouse. The first step was to digitize the tax assessor's maps. The tax assessor's maps from which this coverage was built contained a wealth of information, carefully sketched to scale, for each person's lands. They noted and mapped each and every building, including its size, construction, and location. They noted creeks and irrigation ditches, roads, trails, and fencelines. Each field, orchard, and barnyard was mapped and annotated, down to areas of less than an acre. Because of the wealth of information on these maps they were digitized into different layers including streams, ditches, buildings, and vegetation. The vegetation layer had all boundaries between classes and all roads as mapped by the tax assessor. Two categories on the tax assessor's maps where grouped on the vegetation map. The tax assessor specified the number of stumps per acre, these were grouped as 'stumpy lands'. All fully cleared lands were grouped together as 'cultivated'.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 1914 Assessor's Maps
Process_Date: Unknown
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Penelope Jennings Eckert
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing Address
Address:
Box 352100, College of Forest Resources,

University of Washington
City: Seattle
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98195
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 543-0102
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peckert@fwenc.com
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The second step was to reclassify the vegetation categories to match land cover categories designated for the land cover maps produced through air photo interpretation. The following is the key for conversion between the vegetation map categories and the land cover map categories: roads = built; railroads = built; water = water; salt marsh = grassy/brushy; fresh marsh = grassy/brushy; gulch = bare; beach = bare; slashed = grassy/brushy; stumpy = field; cultivated = field; house/barnyard = built; orchard = field; town of Sequim = Sequim, not mapped; conifer forest, including logged with regrowth = forest; hardwood forest, including logged with regrowth = forest; burned, logged conifer forest = grassy/brushy; burned hardwood forest, regrowth = grassy/brushy
Process_Date: Unknown
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Penelope Jennings Eckert
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing Address
Address:
Box 352100, College of Forest Resources,

University of Washington
City: Seattle
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98195
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (206) 543-0102
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peckert@fwenc.com
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Dungeness River Watershed
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-Polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1357
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Label Point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 1356
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Node, Planar Graph
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 7728
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Complete Chain
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 2736
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: State Plane Coordinate System 1927
State_Plane_Coordinate_System:
SPCS_Zone_Identifier: 5601
Lambert_Conformal_Conic:
Standard_Parallel: 47.5
Standard_Parallel: 48.7333
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 120.8333
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 47
False_Easting: 500000
False_Northing: 0
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: land cover
Entity_Type_Definition:
Land cover is the type of surface features that appear to exist within the study area. Land cover does not imply land use. For example, land use for "bare" lands varied from active gravel mines to protected park beaches and from highway right-of-way fill slopes to the shifting sediments of the Dungeness River bed. This land cover classification was developed based on distinguishable photo characteristics used to create land cover maps for later time periods in the study, and did not include soils, land tenure, or other sources of information. Land cover was classified based on water use. Thus all kinds of (unirrigated) forest were lumped together as forest if their crowns were closed, while an area of grass might be lawn, field, grassy/brushy, or pasture, depending on its apparent use. For this coverage the land cover type was interpolated from categories developed on the tax assessor's maps.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
PhD thesis, The Social Construction of a Watershed: Changing Rights and Changing Land, Penelope Jennings Eckert, June 1998, University of Washington, School of Forestry
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: lc
Attribute_Definition: land cover class
Attribute_Definition_Source:
PhD thesis, The Social Construction of a Watershed: Changing Rights and Changing Land, Penelope Jennings Eckert, June 1998, University of Washington, School of Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 = u = built
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Generally a building or a paved area, may be a whole series of buildings and connecting spaces. Up to 20% of the ground surface may be covered in lawn or landscaping.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2 = l = lawn
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
A discrete area of irrigated mowed grass, not apparently part of an agricultural field. When the area is contiguous with agricultural fields, fencelines and texture differences help to distinguish lawns from fields.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 = gb = grassy/brushy
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
An area of low vegetation, not tree size and not irrigated. This classification included new forest plantations, new home construction where irrigation was not in place, brush along river and creek channels, and recovering areas of gravel mines
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4 = f = field
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
This designation refers to alfalfa or timothy grass hayfields, actively irrigated and mowed. Tractor lines from present or immediate past mowing were an important indicator other than uniformity of surface and reflectance.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5 = p = pasture
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
An area of irrigated vegetation where signs of grazing are evident. These signs include selective removal of species with bunches of grasses left, trails to water or to gates, and fences.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 6 = be = berries/row
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Areas of highly organized crops, usually with vine supports (for berries) or clear raised rows on the land (for row crops like brassica seed).
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 7 = o = orchard
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Irrigated tree crops, whether apples or Douglas-fir in the Weyerhaeuser seed orchard.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 8 = of = open forest
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Areas of tree cover, either hardwood or conifer, but native vegetation, where crown closure averaged less than 40% over the area.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 9 = fo = forest
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Areas of tree cover, either hardwood or conifer, but native vegetation, where crown closure was at least 40%. As soon as a plantation showed tree crowns as distinguished from brushy cover, it was classified as forest.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 10 = ba = bare
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
This designation was used for beaches, gravel pits, large stretches of highway 101, and areas stripped of vegetation in apparent preparation for construction.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD Thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: 11 = wa = water
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Open water visible the day the photo was flown. Water bodies obscured by vegetation were not included.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: PhD thesis, Penelope Eckert, UW, Forestry
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ac
Attribute_Definition:
Acres, calculated by using ARC internal measure AREA / 43560, since the internal measure is in square feet.
Attribute_Definition_Source:
PhD thesis, The Social Construction of a Watershed: Changing Rights and Changing Land, Penelope Jennings Eckert, June 1998, University of Washington, School of Forestry
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: not established
Attribute_Units_of_Measure:
ment: acres
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Olympic Natural Resources Center
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing Address
Address: PO Box 1628
City: Forks
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98331
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360.374.3220 x258
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 3603743336
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: onrc@u.washington.edu
Hours_of_Service: M-F 8-5
Contact_Instructions: Email preferred
Resource_Description: dataset as known by distributor: lc1914
Distribution_Liability:
The Olympic Natural Resource Center cannot assure the reliability or suitability of this information for a particular purpose. Original data elements were compiled from various sources. Spatial information may not meet National Mapping Accuracy Standards. This information may be updated, corrected, or otherwise modified without notification. For additional information about this data contact the Olympic Natural Resource Center.
Standard_Order_Process:
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Format_Name: ARCE
Format_Version_Number: 7.1
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
http://www.onrc.washington.edu/pub/clearinghouse/penelope/claldata/landcover/lc1914.e00.gz
Fees: None
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 19981120
Metadata_Review_Date: 19981120
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Olympic Natural Resources Center
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing Address
Address: PO Box 1628
City: Forks
State_or_Province: WA
Postal_Code: 98331
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360.374.3220 x258
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 3603743336
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: onrc@u.washington.edu
Hours_of_Service: M-F 8-5
Contact_Instructions: Email preferred
Metadata_Standard_Name:
FGDC Content Standards For Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: June 8, 1994
Generated by mp on Tue Dec 8 14:09:49 1998