County Boundaries (1:24000, from FRAP)
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In late 1996, the Dept of Conservation (DOC) surveyed state and
federal agencies about the county boundary coverage they used. As a
result, DOC adopted the 1:24,000 scale Bureau of Reclamation dataset
(USGS source) for their Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP)
but with several major and minor modifications. Detailed documentation
of these changes is provided by FMMP and included as part of the data
dictionary.

Ideally, state and federal agencies should be using the same framework
data for common themes such as county boundaries. This layer provides
an initial offering as "best available" at 1:24,000 scale. Additional
improvements, including a review of data sources for the coastline,
can be added over time based on interagency review and agreement on
proposed changes.

This directory currently contains an ArcInfo Export of the boundaries
file. Please refer to the metadata in the corresponding XML file for
additional information.
