Dlg shape file

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Science Snippets. Technical Announcements. Employees in the News. Get Our News. Media Contacts. I'm a Reporter. Staff Profiles. Social Media. Contact Us. Background A DLG is a vector file containing line data, such as boundaries, hydrography, public land survey system, roads, railroads, miscellaneous transportation, and hypsography. The State of Ohio is covered by 7. The DLGs meet national map accuracy standards for , scale.

Layer Definitions Boundaries This category of data consists of 1 political boundaries that identify States, counties, cities, and other municipalities, and 2 administrative boundaries that identify areas such as National and State forests.

Political and administrative boundaries are always collected as a single data set. Hydrography This category of data is currently being collected as combined hydrography consisting of all flowing water, standing water, and wetlands. Bureau of Land Management. PLSS data are only collected for areas falling solely, or in part, within the States that were formed from the public domain.

The PLSS subdivides the public domain and represents property boundaries or references to property boundaries.