Land/Water Shape Files

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Aquatic Features, Bathymetry, and Navigation Structures

Land Water Shape Files

Data transfer and file format information

Example Metadata File

Land/water is one of the classification attributes in the land cover/use data sets created by UMESC from aerial photography. These data are redistributed here as shape files with the boundaries of the region's 1:24,000-scale USGS quadrangles added to the data. This has been done because individuals working with ArcView have reported numerous problems if they attempt to perform a dissolve on the land cover/use data to create a land/water only shape files. Most printers cannot process the detailed land/water boundaries unless some form of a break line or lines are added.

Data are available for the following areas:

Mississippi River
Pool 1 Pool 2 Pool 3 Pool 4 Pool 5 Pool 5a Pool 6 Pool 7 Pool 8 Pool 9	Pool 10 Pool 11 Pool 12 Pool 13 Pool 14 Pool 15 Pool 16 Pool 17 Pool 18 Pool 19	Pool 20 Pool 21 Pool 22 Pool 24 Pool 25 Pool 26 Open River (L&D 26 to Grand Tower) Open River (Grand Tower to the Ohio River)
Illinois River	Saint Croix River
Alton La Grange Peoria Starved Rock Marseilles Dresden Brandon Lockport	Lower Saint Croix

Available 1989 LCU Data

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