Minnesota River Basin MPCA Biological Monitoring Sites (mpcabio)

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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
7. Metadata Reference Information

Section 1

Identification Information
Originator Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Title Minnesota River Basin MPCA Biological Monitoring Sites
Abstract The Minnesota River Basin (mpcabio) contains the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Biological Monitoring Sites for the Minnesota River Basin. The data file consist of point locations and identification numbers for these sites.
Purpose These data were acquired to provide locations for Minnesota Pollution Control Agency biological monitoring sites in the Minnesota River Basin.
Time Period of Content Date Unknown
Currentness Reference None
Progress Unknown
Maintenance and Update Frequency Unknown
Spatial Extent of Data 12 major watersheds of the Minnesota River Basin.
Bounding Coordinates -97.364
-93.087
46.231
43.345
Place Keywords Minnesota River Basin, Blue Earth River Major Watershed, Chippewa River Major Watershed, Cottonwood River Major Watershed, Hawk Creek - Yellow Medicine River Major Watershed, Le Sueur River Major Watershed, Lower Minnesota River Major Watershed, Lac qui Parle River Major Watershed, Middle Minnesota River Major Watershed, Pomme de Terre River Major Watershed, Redwood River Major Watershed, Upper Minnesota River Major Watershed, Watonwan River Major Watershed, Big Stone County, Blue Earth County, Brown County, Carver County, Chippewa County, Cottonwood County, Dakota County, Douglas County, Faribault County, Freeborn County, Grant County, Hennepin County, Jackson County, Kandiyohi County, Lac qui Parle County, Le Sueur County, Lincoln County, Lyon County, McLeod County, Martin County, Murray County, Nicollet County, Otter Tail County, Pipestone County, Pope County, Ramsey County, Redwood County, Renville County, Rice County, Scott County, Sibley County, Steele County, Stevens County, Swift County, Traverse County, Waseca County, Watonwan County, Yellow Medicine County.
Theme Keywords Monitoring Site
Theme Keyword Thesaurus None
Access Constraints None
Use Constraints By accepting this data, the user agrees not to transmit this data or provide access to it or any part of it to another party unless the user shall include with the data a copy of this metadata.
Contact Person Information Cis Berg, GIS Director
Water Resources Center
184 Trafton Science Center S
Mankato, Minnesota 56001
Phone: (507) 389-5492
FAX: (507) 389-5493
E-mail: cecilia.berg@mankato.msus.edu
Browse Graphic File Name None available
Browse Graphic File Description Not applicable
Associated Data Sets

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Attribute Accuracy Unknown
Logical Consistency Data are topologically correct within ArcInfo 7.1.2.
Completeness Unknown
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Not available
Lineage Not available
Source Scale Denominator Unknown

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Spatial Data Organization Information - - - - - - Go back to top
Native Data Set Environment Unknown
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data
Spatial Object Type Point
Vendor Specific Object Types Label
Tiling Scheme Major Watershed

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Horizontal Coordinate Scheme UTM
Ellipsoid GRS80
Horizontal Datum NAD83
Horizontal Units Meters
Distance Resolution
Altitude Datum Not applicable
Altitude Units Not applicable
Depth Datum Not applicable
Depth Units Not applicable
UTM Zone Number 15E

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Entity and Attribute Overview Attributes are FIELDMUN, LAT, LONG2, HUC, SEG, MAJOR2, MINOR5, MAJOR-NAME, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP, TWP, RNG, SEC, PEDIGREE, PEDYEAR.
Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation MPCA Biological Monitoring Sites for the Minnesota River Basin include the following list of attributes:


Point attribute table:   mpcabio.pat

ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE DEC DESCRIPTION OF ITEM CONTENT
AREA 8 18 F 5 Area = 0 for a point.
PERIMETER 8 18 F 5 Length = 0 for a point.
MPCABIO# 4 5 B - Internal sequence number.
MPCABIO-ID 4 5 B - User ID.
FIELDNUM 4 5 B - Fieldnum.   A unique number for each station
LAT 8 8 F 5 Latitude of station; decimal degrees.
LONG2 8 9 f 5 Longitude of station; decimal degrees.
HUC 4 0 B - Hydrologic Unit Code
SEG 4 0 B - Stream Segment
MAJOR2 2 2 I - Minnesota unique two digit major watershed ID number.
MINOR5 5 5 I - Minnesota unique five digit minor watershed ID number.
MAJOR-NAME 50 50 C - Major watershed name.
COUNTY-NAME 17 17 C - Name of the county in which the station is located.
COUNTY-NO 2 2 C - Minnesota unique two character county ID number.
TOWNSHIP 20 20 C - Name of the political township in which the station is located.   Incorporated areas, such as municipalities, are not distinguished from the political township.
TWP 3 3 I - PLS Township number in which the station is located.
RNG 2 2 I - PLS Range number in which the station is located.
SEC 3 3 I - PLS Section number in which the station is located..
PEDIGREE 12 12 C - Acronym that identifies the organization responsible for point features and attributes.
MPCA Minnesota Polution Control Agency.
MSUWRC Minnesota State University, Mankato
Water Resources Center.
PEDYEAR 4 4 I - Year in which the polygon feature was created or last updated.

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Publisher Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Publication Date 1999
Contact Person Information Cis Berg, GIS Director
Water Resources Center
184 Trafton Science Center S
Mankato, Minnesota 56001
Phone: (507) 389-5492
FAX: (507) 389-5493
E-mail: cecilia.berg@mankato.msus.edu
Distributor's Data Set Identifier None
Distribution Liability These data have been used by the Water Resources Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato.   No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the Water Resources Center as to the accuracy of the data, the related maps or analysis created from such data; nor shall the fact of distribution constitute any such warranty.
Transfer Format Name ARC/INFO Export file and ArcView shape file.
Transfer Format Version Number ARC/INFO7.1.2 ArcView3.1
Transfer Size
Ordering Instructions These data are freely downloadable from the Minnesota River Basin Data Center Web Site. http://mrbdc.mankato.msus.edu
Online Linkage None Available

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Metadata Date 05/30/1999
Contact Person Information Cis Berg, GIS Director
Water Resources Center
184 Trafton Science Center S
Mankato, Minnesota 56001
Phone: (507) 389-5492
FAX: (507) 389-5493
E-mail: cecilia.berg@mankato.msus.edu
Metadata Standard Name Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version 1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/gc/stds/metadata.htm
This page last updated 12/29/1998.

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