Price, Curtis Clawges, Rick 1999 1.0 map Open-File Report 99-78 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey https://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?ofr99-78_cowu95 This data set describes water use in counties in the conterminous United States in 1995. This data set can be used to look at spatial patterns of water use. U.S. county boundaries were developed at a scale of approximately 1:2 million. This data set is a spatial representation of water use in the United States. This data set was created for use in the analysis of ground-water quality data on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) VOC National Synthesis Team. PROCEDURES USED A data file of county water-use data in 1995 (U.S. Geological Survey, 1998) was joined to a data set of counties in the conterminous United States. REVIEWS APPLIED TO DATA This electronic report was subjected to the same review standard that applies to all U.S. Geological Survey reports. Reviewers were asked to check the topological consistency, tolerances, attribute frequencies and statistics, projection, and geographic extent. The reviewers checked the metadata and a_readme.1st files for completeness and accuracy. REFERENCES CITED Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), 1997, ARC/INFO 7.1.1 Help, Redlands, Calif., [on-line documentation]. Lanfear, K.J., 1984, Digital map of counties and county equivalents in the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey data available on the World Wide Web, accessed July 21, 1998, at URL https://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?county2m U.S. Geological Survey, 1998, Water Use in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey, accessed July 21, 1998, at URL http://water.usgs.gov/public/watuse/ NOTES Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials. Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ARC/INFO format, this metadata file may include some ARC/INFO-specific terminology. 1995 The water-use data items are for 1995. Complete None planned. -128.07002717 -65.25698378 48.26194027 22.67774911 USGS Thesaurus water use inlandWaters ISO 19115 Topic Category geoscientificInformation inlandWaters environment USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:8900a458-df4b-47c2-bd5d-f56ef9cdcde9 Geographic Names Information System Conterminous 48 United States None None Curtis Price U.S. Geological Survey Physical Scientist mailing address

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Rapid City South Dakota 57702 United States of America 1-888-275-8747 (605) 355-4523 cprice@usgs.gov none Compilation of the data sets was supported by the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The objectives of the NAWQA Program are to: (1) describe current water-quality conditions for a large part of the Nation's freshwater streams, rivers, and aquifers, (2) describe how water quality is changing over time, and (3) improve the understanding of the primary natural and anthropogenic factors that affect water-quality conditions. National analysis of data, based on aggregation of comparable information obtained from across the United States, is a major component of the NAWQA Program. These data sets were created in support of NAWQA national data analysis activities. Public Unclassified None Operating System: UNIX, ARC/INFO version 7.1.1 Polygon and chain-node topology present. This data set includes only selected water use attributes available from the data set from the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Use Program website. No tests performed. Lanfear, K.J. 19840816 map Reston, Virginia, USA U.S. Geological Survey https://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?ofr99-78_cowu95 online 19840816 as of 1983 county2m US county polygons and attributes Perlman, Howard 1995 map Reston, Virginia, USA U.S. Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/public/watuse/ http://water.usgs.gov/public/watuse/wudownload.html online 19950101 ground condition swuds Water-use summaries per county, select data columns ARC/INFO software and commands (Environmental Systems Research Institute, 1997) were used to join the water-use data to the county coverage. ARC/INFO commands and modules are shown below in capital letters: Step 1. The files "usco95.txt" and "wudict.txt" were retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Use Program website: http://water.usgs.gov/pub/watuse Step 2. The file "usco95.txt" contains over 200 columns of data. Selected elements for population served and freshwater withdrawals were taken from this file. The tab-delimited file was read into INFO using INFO's ADD FROM command. Step 3. The county water-use INFO file was linked to the county2m coverage using the ARC/INFO command JOINITEM. The related item used for the JOINITEM was FIPS. Step 4. Selected items were dropped from the county2m coverage using the ARC/INFO command DROPITEM, creating the coverage cowu95. 19980506 Vector Point 5063 String 12374 GT-polygon composed of chains 5064 Albers Conical Equal Area 29.5 45.5 -96 23 0.00000 0.00000 coordinate pair 10.0 10.0 METERS North American Datum of 1927 Clarke 1866 6378206.4 294.98 There are two attribute files associated with this data set. An arc attribute table describes the boundaries: >COWU95.AAT: > >COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME > 1 FNODE# 4 5 B - > 5 TNODE# 4 5 B - > 9 LPOLY# 4 5 B - > 13 RPOLY# 4 5 B - > 17 LENGTH 4 12 F 3 > 21 COWU95# 4 5 B - > 25 COWU95-ID 4 5 B - > 29 BNDTYPE 2 2 I - FNODE# is the internal number of the from-node TNODE# is the internal number of the to-node LPOLY# is the internal number of the polygon to the left of the arc RPOLY# is the internal number of the polygon to the right of the arc LENGTH is the length of the arc in meters COWU95# is a program-generated feature identity number COWU95-ID is a user-assigned feature identity number BNDTYPE is included in the DLG format file as MINOR1. BNDTYPE codes are as follows: >0 = Coastline of United States. >1 = State-state border occurring on land. >2 = County-county border, within state, occurring on land. >3 = State-state border occurring on the ocean, an estuary, > or a Great Lake. Some of these borders are arbitrary. >4 = County-county border, with state, but occurring on the > ocean, an estuary, or a Great Lake. Some of these > borders are arbitrary. >5 = International border occurring on land. >6 = International border occurring on water. >7 = Canadian shoreline of the Great Lakes. >8 = Arbitrary separation line between the Canadian portions > of the Great Lakes. >9 = Closure line with the external polygon. This is > arbitrary. A polygon attribute table is also included: >COWU95.PAT > >COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME > 1 AREA 4 12 F 3 > 5 PERIMETER 4 12 F 3 > 9 COWU95# 4 5 B - > 13 COWU95-ID 4 5 B - > 17 FIPS 5 5 I - > 22 COUNTYNAME 25 25 C - > 47 TOTALPOP 4 12 F 2 > 51 PS_GWPOP 4 12 F 2 > 55 PS_SWPOP 4 12 F 2 > 59 DO_SSPOP 4 12 F 2 > 63 PS_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 67 CO_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 71 DO_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 75 IN_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 79 PT_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 83 PF_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 87 PG_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 91 PN_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 95 MI_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 99 LS_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 103 LA_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 107 IR_WGWFR 4 12 F 2 > 111 PS_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 115 CO_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 119 DO_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 123 IN_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 127 PT_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 131 PF_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 135 PG_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 139 PN_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 143 MI_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 147 LS_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 151 LA_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 > 155 IR_WSWFR 4 12 F 2 AREA is the area of the polygon in square meters PERIMETER is the perimeter of the polygon in meters COWU95# is a program-generated feature identity number COWU95-ID is a user-assigned feature identity number FIPS is a number representing state and county. FIPS is included in the DLG format file as MINOR1. COUNTYNAME is name of the county. The other items are from the water-use dictionary file and are shown below. Only a small portion of the attributes from the water-use data file for 1995 are contained in data set COWU95. The comprehensive water-use data file contains much more additional information, including withdrawals of saline water, consumptive use, number of facilities, public supply deliveries to other user types (e.g. commerial), reclaimed waste water, hydroelectric water use, power generation, and irrigated acreage. Users of this data set are encouraged to go the Water-Use Program website address shown in the Supplemental Information section above. >Total population of the county, in thousands TotalPop >Public supply population served by ground water, in thousands PS-GWPop >Public supply population served by surface water, in thousands PS-SWPop >Domestic self-supplied population, in thousands DO-SSPop >Public supply ground-water withdrawals, fresh PS-WGWFr >Public supply surface-water withdrawals, fresh PS-WSWFr >Commercial ground-water withdrawals, fresh CO-WGWFr >Commercial surface-water withdrawals, fresh CO-WSWFr >Domestic ground-water withdrawals, fresh DO-WGWFr >Domestic surface-water withdrawals, fresh DO-WSWFr >Industrial ground-water withdrawals, fresh IN-WGWFr >Industrial surface-water withdrawals, fresh IN-WSWFr >Thermoelectric power (all types) ground-water withdrawals, fresh PT-WGWFr >Thermoelectric power (all types) surface-water withdrawals, fresh PT-WSWFr >Thermoelectric power (fossil fuel) ground-water withdrawals, fresh PF-WGWFr >Thermoelectric power (fossil fuel) surface-water withdrawals, fresh PF-WSWFr >Thermoelectric power (geothermal) ground-water withdrawals, fresh PG-WGWFr >Thermoelectric power (geothermal) surface-water withdrawals, fresh PG-WSWFr >Thermoelectric power (nuclear) ground-water withdrawals, fresh PN-WGWFr >Thermoelectric power (nuclear) surface-water withdrawals, fresh PN-WSWFr >Mining ground-water withdrawals, fresh MI-WGWFr >Mining surface-water withdrawals, fresh MI-WSWFr >Livestock (stock) ground-water withdrawals, fresh LS-WGWFr >Livestock (stock) surface-water withdrawals, fresh LS-WSWFr >Livestock (animal specialties) ground-water withdrawals, fresh LA-WGWFr >Livestock (animal specialties) surface-water withdrawals, fresh LA-WSWFr >Irrigation ground-water withdrawals, fresh IR-WGWFr >Irrigation surface-water withdrawals, fresh IR-WSWFr None U.S. Geological Survey Michael Ierardi mailing

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