Description: California’s coastal zone generally extends 1,000 yards inland from the mean high tide line. In significant coastal estuarine habitat and recreational areas it extends inland to the first major ridgeline or 5 miles from the mean high tide line, whichever is less. In developed urban areas, the boundary is generally less than 1,000 yards. (From http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/docs/StateCZBoundaries.pdf)This data depicts the California Coastal Commission's Coastal Zone Boundary for the State of California. It was digitized within AutoCAD from the Commission's certified Coastal Zone Boundary hard copy maps which has the USGS 1:24,000 Quadrangle series as its base. The files were then imported into ArcView, and merged together following Commission jurisdictional boundaries (North Coast, North Central Coast, Central Coast, South Central Coast, South Coast, and San Diego). The line work was originally georeferenced to the USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) in Teale Albers projection. The data was later refined to the DRGs in UTM, Zones 10 and 11, NAD 83 meters. This file is intended to be displayed upon the UTM DRGs as a base map. In addition, the data was later attributed to help explain the basis of the mapped Coastal Zone.The boundary depicted in the attached file ('s) was digitized from the official 1:24,000 scale Coastal Zone Boundary maps, however, there are several important points to note about its use. The digital Coastal Zone Boundaries have not been adopted by the Commission, and do not supersede the official version of the Coastal Zone Boundary adopted by the Coastal Commission in March 1977 and amended from time to time since then. Final QA/QC has not been completed by the Commission (May 23, 2003).
Description: 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 (24K) scale U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) dataset (USGS source) for their Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) but with several modifications. Detailed documentation of these changes is provided by FMMP and included in the lineage section of the metadata. A dataset named cnty24k97_1 was made available (approximately 2004) through the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - Fire and Resource Assessment Program (CDF - FRAP) and the California Spatial Information Library (CaSIL). In late 2006, the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) reviewed cnty24k97_1. Comparisons were made to a high-quality 100K dataset (co100a/county100k from the former Teale Data Center GIS Solutions Group) and legal boundary descriptions from ( http://www.leginfo.ca.gov ). The cnty24k97_1 dataset was missing Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands. DFG added the missing islands using previously-digitized coastline data (coastn27 of State Lands Commission origin), corrected a few county boundaries, built region topology, added additional attributes, and renamed the dataset to county24k. In 2007, the California Mapping Coordinating Committee (CMCC) requested that the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) resume stewardship of the statewide county boundaries data. CAL FIRE adopted the changes made by DFG and collected additional suggestions for the county data from DFG, DOC, and local government agencies. CAL FIRE incorporated these suggestions into the latest revision, which has been renamed cnty24k09_1. Detailed documentation of changes is included in the Process Step section of the metadata.
Copyright Text: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, California Department of Fish and Game, Cal-Atlas Geospatial Clearinghouse
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Description: The DISTRICT feature class is a polygon coverage representing the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) district boundaries. There are 12 Caltrans Districts in California.
Description: The NOAA Coastal Services Center's Marine Jurisdiction dataset was created to assist in marine spatial planning and offshore alternative energy sitting. This is a composite dataset derived from a collection of authoritative marine boundary data provided by the DIO Minerals Management Service and the NOAA Office of Coast Survey.Downloaded from ftp://ftp.csc.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/ on December 12th, 2011 by USACE GIS Analyst.Data was clipped to only include California and the western coast. Full dataset available online, see http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/marinejurisdictions/download.html.
Copyright Text: NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Minerals Management Service