Title: NRCS Counties By State
Originator: Bureau of the Census, Geography and Natural Resources Conservation Service
Abstract:
TIGER, TIGER/Line, and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2015 TIGER/Line files are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Census TIGER database. The Census TIGER database represents a seamless national county file with no overlaps or gaps between parts.
Natural Resources Conservation Service(NRCS), Information Technology Center (ITC) and Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC BC) has value-added to the TIGER county file over the years, adding in many new attribute fields and new counties as they were created, made corrections and other modifications for general and agency-specific uses as well as adding several Pacific islands and atolls. In 2008 and 2009, with the acquisition of high resolution imagery and the subsequent production of MrSid mosaics, many of these Pacific islands were re-positioned as necessary as per the imagery.
This data set is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference source. This map is the authoritative source for counties for NRCS. It is meant for internal use in a variety of NRCS applications. For some of the Pacific Islands and atolls, every effort was made to position the geometry accurately, but due to a lack of source materials, no guarantees can be made regarding their positional accuracy.
Format: vector areas – ESRI shapefile
Spatial Reference Information: Decimal Degrees, North American Datum 1983
