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Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey), Wisconsin 1930s - 1940s

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Citation
Title
Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey), Wisconsin 1930s - 1940s
Originator
Forest Landscape Ecology Lab (UW-Madison)
Publication Date
2020-02-12
Edition
1930s - 1940s
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Collection Title
Statewide
Other Citation Details
For more information on this project, and to use the web application: https://maps.sco.wisc.edu/BordnerCoastal/about/
Series
Series Title
Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey)
Issue
Abstract
The Forest Landscape Ecology Lab (FLEL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has collaborated with the WI State Cartographer's Office (SCO) to digitize and create vector geospatial data from the survey maps published through the Bordner Survey (Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory). These maps give insight to what the landscape of Wisconsin looked like at a time of peak deforestation and land abandonment in addition to how this legacy has impacted the current landscape. Furthermore, these maps offer a tool for future landscape management including but not limited to; shore line changes, erosion, reforestation, and wetland restoration. Included in this geodatabase are: economic natural features (points); land use-land cover (polygons); transportation water infrastructure (lines).A user guide for this data may be found here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVG-39Kw1Edmsw315vXf-DUWdw2qXEGEBYKpewCkHyw/edit (The user guide is also included as a PDF file with the data upon download.)
Purpose
The Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory, better known as the Bordner Survey, was a depression-era project to map Wisconsin’s resources. By the late 1920’s deforestation for agricultural use was rampant, and much of the land cleared had unsuitable soils for farming. John Bordner was commissioned to develop a strategy to inventory land. These survey maps (from the 1930s -1940s) provided information about what land was suitable for agriculture, and a recommendation of land to be reforested or otherwise put to productive use.
Supplemental Information
Augmented original metadata with UW-Madison specific elements. For more information on this project, and to use the web application, please visit: https://maps.sco.wisc.edu/BordnerCoastal/about/
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
Date data was published
Time Instant
1935-01-01T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-92.967572
East
-86.696635
North
46.966402
South
42.466389
ISO Topic Category
economy
Place Keyword
Wisconsin
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Theme Keyword
Land cover
Economics
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Funded by the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office for Coastal Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act, Grant #NA16NOS4190108. The Bordner digitizing project has also received funding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Research Fund, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Award.
Point of Contact
Contact
Matthew Noone
Position Name
GIS Specialist
Email
mnoone@wisc.edu
Phone
608-265-6321
Point of Contact
Contact
David Mladenoff
Position Name
Professor
Delivery Point
1630 Linden Dr.
City
Madison
Administrative Area
Wisconsin
Postal Code
53706
Email
david.mlandenoff@wisc.edu
Phone
608-262-1992

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
3071
Code Space
EPSG
Version
9.2.0

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.

Distribution Information

Format Name
File Geodatabase Feature Dataset
Format Version
1
Distributor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Distributor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Online Access
https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_BordnerSurvey_1930s.zip
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Name
GeoData@Wisconsin
Function
download

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
47280

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
03E03BF8-151C-4097-BF40-4D59F6F496A2
Metadata Date Stamp
2020-02-12
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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