Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>The FIRM is the basis for floodplain management, mitigation, and insurance activities for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Insurance applications include enforcement of the mandatory purchase requirement of the Flood Disaster Protection Act, which "... requires the purchase of flood insurance by property owners who are being assisted by Federal programs or by Federally supervised, regulated or insured agencies or institutions in the acquisition or improvement of land facilities located or to be located in identified areas having special flood hazards, " Section 2 (b) (4) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. In addition to the identification of Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the risk zones shown on the FIRMs are the basis for the establishment of premium rates for flood coverage offered through the NFIP. The FIRM Database presents the flood risk information depicted on the FIRM in a digital format suitable for use in electronic mapping applications. The FIRM Database serves to archive the information collected during the Flood Risk Project.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) data incorporates all Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) databases published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and any Letters Of Map Revision (LOMRs) that have been issued against those databases since their publication date. It is updated on a monthly basis. The FIRM Database is the digital, geospatial version of the flood hazard information shown on the published paper FIRMs. The FIRM Database depicts flood risk information and supporting data used to develop the risk data. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual-chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The FIRM Database is derived from Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published FIRMs, flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by FEMA. The NFHL is available as State or US Territory data sets. Each State or Territory data set consists of all FIRM Databases and corresponding LOMRs available on the publication date of the data set. The specification for the horizontal control of FIRM Databases is consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12,000. This file is georeferenced to the Earth's surface using the Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) and North American Dataum of 1983 (NSRS-2007).</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Copyright Text: Please credit FEMA where applicable. Spotsylvania County GIS has downloaded this data from FEMA and is providing it as is to others as a public service. This office does not edit or alter any GIS data from other non county sources.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Slope gradient is the difference in elevation between two points, expressed as a percentage of the distance between those points.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The slope gradient is actually recorded as three separate values in the database. A low value and a high value indicate the range of this attribute for the soil component. A "representative" value indicates the expected value of this attribute for the component. For this soil property, only the representative value is used.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Copyright Text: Please credit Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Web Soil Survey. Available online at https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>These are the latest (Version 5) national hydrologic unit (HU) boundaries at levels 1-6 for Virginia. They have been created in compliance with the most recent published federal standards for delineation of hydrologic units and contain national WBD HU model changes made since that time up to the publication date. The Virginia NWBD schemas include variations from the national WBD schemas. This dataset covers the whole state and is seamless with the WBD products of surrounding states at the time of publication.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 78c36c9a67844075b4eca0c266cf80c0
Copyright Text: Please credit the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Soil and Water Conservation Division. Spotsylvania County GIS has downloaded this dataset from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and is providing it as is to others as a public service. This office does not edit or alter any GIS data from other non county sources.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>These are the latest (Version 5) national hydrologic unit (HU) boundaries at levels 1-6 for Virginia. They have been created in compliance with the most recent published federal standards for delineation of hydrologic units and contain national WBD HU model changes made since that time up to the publication date. The Virginia NWBD schemas include variations from the national WBD schemas. This dataset covers the whole state and is seamless with the WBD products of surrounding states at the time of publication.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 78c36c9a67844075b4eca0c266cf80c0
Copyright Text: Please credit the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Soil and Water Conservation Division. Spotsylvania County GIS has downloaded this dataset from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and is providing it as is to others as a public service. This office does not edit or alter any GIS data from other non county sources.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the United States and its Territories. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979). Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the National mapping program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. These habitats include seagrasses or submerged aquatic vegetation that are found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of estuaries and near shore coastal waters. Some deepwater reef communities (coral or tuberficid worm reefs) have also been excluded from the inventory. These habitats, because of their depth, go undetected by aerial imagery. By policy, the Service also excludes certain types of "farmed wetlands" as may be defined by the Food Security Act or that do not coincide with the Cowardin et al. definition. Contact the Service's Regional Wetland Coordinator for additional information on what types of farmed wetlands are included on wetland maps. This dataset should be used in conjunction with the Wetlands Project Metadata layer, which contains project specific wetlands mapping procedures and information on dates, scales and emulsion of imagery used to map the wetlands within specific project boundaries.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 78c36c9a67844075b4eca0c266cf80c0
Copyright Text: Please credit the US Fish and Wildlife Service or National Wetlands Inventory , Oct, 2014.
Please report any discrepancies to them. If you notice a newer dataset available, please contact us at at gis@spotsylvania.va.us or (540) 507-7432.
Spotsylvania County GIS has downloaded this data from the National Wetlands Inventory and is providing it as is to others as a public service. This office does not edit or alter any GIS data from other non county sources.