Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center (Data creator) Publication_Date: 20020101 Title: NATURAL_REGIONS_IDNR_IN: Natural Regions of Indiana (Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 1:800,000, Polygon Shapefile) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Indianapolis, Indiana Publisher: IDNR, Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center Other_Citation_Details: Dataset is the digitized version of the Natural Regions map done by Michael Homoya, 1985, in Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science Volume 94, Plate 1. Reprinted 1990. It contains the natural regions and their subsections. The citation is – Homoya, Michael A., D. Brian Abrell, James R. Aldrich and Thomas W. Post. 1985. The Natural Regions of Indiana. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 94:245-268. Online_Linkage: http://igs.indiana.edu/arcims/statewide/download.html Description: Abstract: This dataset shows the natural regions and their subsections in Indiana. Purpose: This dataset was compiled to provide boundaries for the natural regions in Indiana. It is intended for a variety of uses by the public recognizing that the horizontal accuracy does not support high precision applications. Supplemental_Information: This dataset, as well as many others, was compiled for mapping and download as part of the Web site titled "A GIS Atlas for Indiana," funded by the Indiana Department of Transportation. Many publicly available datasets were created, edited, and compiled inclusion on the Web site where users can download data or map online using ESRI ArcIMS. Many public data sources, not created in conjunction with the statewide project, were obtained by Web site download, contacting originators, and creating spatial files from tabular data. A range of layer editing was used, specific to each layer, from full creation, to data cleaning, to only reformatting metadata. The level of editing done by BLA or the Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) is fully disclosed in the process steps of this metadata; credit for the information is retained by the originator. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 19850101 Currentness_Reference: Publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.1607 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -84.6882 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.7753 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.7554 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geography Network Keyword Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: boundaries Theme_Keyword: environment Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: natural regions Theme_Keyword: natural subregions Theme_Keyword: ecology Theme_Keyword: Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Theme_Keyword: Division of Nature Preserves (DNP) Theme_Keyword: Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center (INHDC) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: Indiana Place_Keyword: Adams County Place_Keyword: Allen County Place_Keyword: Bartholomew County Place_Keyword: Benton County Place_Keyword: Blackford County Place_Keyword: Boone County Place_Keyword: Brown County Place_Keyword: Carroll County Place_Keyword: Cass County Place_Keyword: Clark County Place_Keyword: Clay County Place_Keyword: Clinton County Place_Keyword: Crawford County Place_Keyword: Daviess County Place_Keyword: Dearborn County Place_Keyword: Decatur County Place_Keyword: DeKalb County Place_Keyword: Delaware County Place_Keyword: Dubois County Place_Keyword: Elkhart County Place_Keyword: Fayette County Place_Keyword: Floyd County Place_Keyword: Fountain County Place_Keyword: Franklin County Place_Keyword: Fulton County Place_Keyword: Gibson County Place_Keyword: Grant County Place_Keyword: Greene County Place_Keyword: Hamilton County Place_Keyword: Hancock County Place_Keyword: Harrison County Place_Keyword: Hendricks County Place_Keyword: Henry County Place_Keyword: Howard County Place_Keyword: Huntington County Place_Keyword: Jackson County Place_Keyword: Jasper County Place_Keyword: Jay County Place_Keyword: Jefferson County Place_Keyword: Jennings County Place_Keyword: Johnson County Place_Keyword: Knox County Place_Keyword: Kosciusko County Place_Keyword: Lagrange County Place_Keyword: Lake County Place_Keyword: LaPorte County Place_Keyword: Lawrence County Place_Keyword: Madison County Place_Keyword: Marion County Place_Keyword: Marshall County Place_Keyword: Martin County Place_Keyword: Miami County Place_Keyword: Monroe County Place_Keyword: Montgomery County Place_Keyword: Morgan County Place_Keyword: Newton County Place_Keyword: Noble County Place_Keyword: Ohio County Place_Keyword: Orange County Place_Keyword: Owen County Place_Keyword: Parke County Place_Keyword: Perry County Place_Keyword: Pike County Place_Keyword: Porter County Place_Keyword: Posey County Place_Keyword: Pulaski County Place_Keyword: Putnam County Place_Keyword: Randolph County Place_Keyword: Ripley County Place_Keyword: Rush County Place_Keyword: Scott County Place_Keyword: Shelby County Place_Keyword: Spencer County Place_Keyword: Starke County Place_Keyword: Steuben County Place_Keyword: St Joseph County Place_Keyword: Sullivan County Place_Keyword: Switzerland County Place_Keyword: Tippecanoe County Place_Keyword: Tipton County Place_Keyword: Union County Place_Keyword: Vanderburgh County Place_Keyword: Vermillion County Place_Keyword: Vigo County Place_Keyword: Wabash County Place_Keyword: Warren County Place_Keyword: Warrick County Place_Keyword: Washington County Place_Keyword: Wayne County Place_Keyword: Wells County Place_Keyword: White County Place_Keyword: Whitley County Access_Constraints: This file is available to anyone, but access may be contingent on written request, specific terms relevant to the agency or person making the request, and (or) current freedom of information statutes in the state of Indiana. Use_Constraints: DATA DISCLAIMER This data set was compiled by Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates, using data believed to be accurate; however, a degree of error is inherent in all data. This product is distributed "AS-IS" without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of suitability of a particular purpose or use. No attempt has been made in either the designed format or production of these data to define the limits or jurisdiction of any federal, state, or local government. These data are intended for use only at the published scale or smaller and are for reference purposes only. They are not to be construed as a legal document or survey instrument. A detailed on-the-ground survey and historical analysis of a single site may differ from this data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates Contact_Person: Neal Schroeder Contact_Position: Geographer, Environmental Planner Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 6200 Vogel Road City: Evansville State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 47715-4006 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 800-423-7411 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 812-479-6262 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nschroeder@blainc.com Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm CST Data_Set_Credit: Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center, 2002, Natural Regions in Indiana Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI ArcView version 3.2 shapefile format, approximately 358 Kb Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Unknown. No records exist at Bernardin-Lochmueller & Assoc. regarding the attribute accuracy of this shapefile. For more information, contact Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center, (317) 232-8059. Logical_Consistency_Report: Unknown. No records exist at Bernardin-Lochmueller & Assoc. regarding the logical consistency of this shapefile. For more information, contact Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center, (317) 232-8059. Data use has implied that all polygons have common boundaries and no overlaps. However, no testing has been preformed to confirm these observations. Completeness_Report: Data use suggests that data is fully complete for the state of Indiana. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Unknown. No records exist at Bernardin-Lochmueller & Assoc. regarding the attribute accuracy of this shapefile. For more information, contact Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center, (317) 232-8059. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: IDNR, Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center Publication_Date: 20020101 Title: NATREG83 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Vector digital data Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Indianapolis Publisher: Indiana Other_Citation_Details: Homoya, Michael A., D. Brian Abrell, James R. Aldrich and Thomas W. Post. 1985. The Natural Regions of Indiana. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 94:245-268. Source_Scale_Denominator: 800,000 Type_of_Source_Media: Paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 19850101 Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NATREG83 Source_Contribution: Shapefile containing all information for the dataset Process_Step: Process_Description: The printed map published in the paper by Michael Homoya was digitized at a scale of 1:800,000 by the Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Homoya et al., 1985 Process_Date: 20020101 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: NATREG83 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Organization: Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center Contact_Person: Ron Hellmich Contact_Position: Heritage Information Manager Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 402 W. Washington St., Rm W267 City: Indianapolis State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 46204 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (317) 232-8059 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 317-233-0133 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rhellmich@dnr.state.in.us Process_Step: Process_Description: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates obtained the shapefile named "NATREG83.SHP"from the Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center. Software-generated fields which were deemed unnecessary to the dataset were deleted. These fields that were deleted are: "area," "perimeter," "natreg," and "natreg_id." This metadata was written using information obtained by discussion. The file was obtained in UTM Zone 16 and all produced products were kept in this projection. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NATREG83 Process_Date: 20040818 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: NATURAL_REGIONS_IDNR_IN Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Organization: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates Contact_Person: Cinda Bonds Contact_Position: Environmental Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 6200 Vogel Road City: Evansville State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 47715 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 812-479-6200 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 812-479-6262 Contact_Website: www.blainc.com Hours_of_Service: 0800-1700 CST Process_Step: Process_Description: This metadata was pre-parsed and parsed using CNS (Chew and Spit, v 2.6.1) and MP (Metadata Parser, v 2.7.1) software written by Peter N. Schweitzer (United States Geological Survey). The errors generated by MP were all addressed and corrected, except that no values were assigned to "Abscissa_Resolution" and "Ordinate_Resolution." Process_Date: 20050122 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Organization: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates Contact_Person: Cinda Bonds Contact_Position: Environmental Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 6200 Vogel Road City: Evansville State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 47715 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 812-479-6200 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 812-479-6262 Contact_Website: www.blainc.com Hours_of_Service: 0800-1700 CST Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Indiana Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 40 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Grid_Coordinate_System: Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator Universal_Transverse_Mercator: UTM_Zone_Number: 16 Transverse_Mercator: Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999600 Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -87.000000 Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000 False_Easting: 500000.000000 False_Northing: 0.000000 Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Row and column Coordinate_Representation: Abscissa_Resolution: 0.001020 Ordinate_Resolution: 0.001020 Planar_Distance_Units: Meters Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 80 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.26 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: NATURAL_REGIONS_IDNR_IN.DBF Entity_Type_Definition: Shapefile attributes table Entity_Type_Definition_Source: None Attribute: Attribute_Label: Region Attribute_Definition: Natural region name Attribute_Definition_Source: Homoya et al. 1985 Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: character field Attribute: Attribute_Label: Subegion Attribute_Definition: Name of subregion within a natural region Attribute_Definition_Source: Homoya et al. 1985 Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: character field Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates Contact_Position: Environmental Division Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 6200 Vogel Road City: Evansville State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 47715-4006 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 800-423-7411 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 812-479-6262 Contact_Website: www.blainc.com Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm CST Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: No claims to accuracy are made on this data. 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Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20041001 Metadata_Review_Date: 20050121 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Organization: Bernardin-Lochmueller and Associates Contact_Person: Cinda Bonds Contact_Position: Environmental Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 6200 Vogel Road City: Evansville State_or_Province: Indiana Postal_Code: 47715-4006 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 800-423-7411 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 812-479-6262 Contact_Website: www.blainc.com Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm CST Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC CSDGM Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Access_Constraints: None Metadata_Use_Constraints: This metadata file is intended to accompany the data set identified and received from the BLA/IGS. It should not to be altered or summarized. BLA/IGS does not support secondary distribution. If this data set was received from anyone besides the BLA/IGS, this metadata file and the data set it describes may lack integrity.