RGIS::8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7::ISO-19115:2003 eng; USA U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist 505-761-4433 505-761-4462 6200 Jefferson, NE Suite 305 Albuquerque NM 87109 richard.strait@nm.usda.gov pointOfContact 2014-06-16 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO 19115 New Mexico World Geodetic System 1984 revision http://gstore.unm.edu resourceProvider Unknown World Geodetic System 1984 revision http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?gml=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 resourceProvider 4326 Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico 2014-06-09T15:59:43 publication Downloadable Data U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service originator U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service Fort Worth Texas publisher This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties. SSURGO depicts information about the kinds and distribution of soils on the landscape. The soil map and data used in the SSURGO product were prepared by soil scientists as part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist 505-761-4433 505-761-4462 6200 Jefferson, NE Suite 305 Albuquerque NM 87109 richard.strait@nm.usda.gov soil survey soils Soil Survey Geographic SSURGO None New Mexico Lincoln County Chaves County Otero County Angus Quadrangle Apache Summit Quadrangle Cat Mountain Quadrangle Clements Ranch Quadrangle Deadman Lake Quadrangle Domingo Peak Quadrangle Elk-Silver Quadrangle Firman Canyon Quadrangle Godfrey Peak Quadrangle Golondrina Draw Quadrangle Mayhill Quadrangle Mescalero Quadrangle Nogal Peak Quadrangle Pajarita Mountain Quadrangle Ruidoso Quadrangle Ruidoso Downs Quadrangle Sheeppen Canyon Quadrangle Sierra Blanca Peak Quadrangle Turkey Peak Quadrangle Wahalee Canyon Quadrangle Whitetail Quadrangle USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Access Constraints: None. Use Constraints: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, should be acknowledged as the data source in products derived from these data. This data set is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference source. This is public information and may be interpreted by organizations, agencies, units of government, or others based on needs; however, they are responsible for the appropriate application. Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to reassign to the Natural Resources Conservation Service any authority for the decisions that they make. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will not perform any evaluations of these maps for purposes related solely to State or local regulatory programs. Photographic or digital enlargement of these maps to scales greater than at which they were originally mapped can cause misinterpretation of the data. If enlarged, maps do not show the small areas of contrasting soils that could have been shown at a larger scale. The depicted soil boundaries, interpretations, and analysis derived from them do not eliminate the need for onsite sampling, testing, and detailed study of specific sites for intensive uses. Thus, these data and their interpretations are intended for planning purposes only. Digital data files are periodically updated. Files are dated, and users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the data. eng; USA geoscientificInformation -105.931 -105.317 32.994 33.391 publication date 2004-08-23 2013-12-19 Digital versions of hydrography, cultural features, and other associated layers that are not part of the SSURGO data set may be available from the primary organization listed in the Point of Contact. Earth Data Analysis Center Clearinghouse Manager 505-277-3622 ext. 230 505-277-3614 MSC01 1110 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 USA clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu 0800 - 1700 MT, M-F -7 hours GMT distributor None. The files are available to download from Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) (http://rgis.unm.edu). Contact Earth Data Analysis Center at clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu ZIP 6 http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/soil_nm636_2013.original.zip http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/soil_nm636_2013.original.zip http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/metadata/FGDC-STD-001-1998.html http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.xml http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgisarchive/datasets/8812f9b0-a8cc-4afe-8c5a-5d7f870250c7/metadata/ISO-19115:2003.html Certain node/geometry and topology GT-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements (the GT-polygon corresponds to the soil delineation). Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout, and the chains representing the limits of the file are free of gaps. The tests of logical consistency are performed using vendor software. All internal polygons are tested for closure with vendor software and are checked on hard copy plots. All data are checked for common soil lines (i.e., adjacent polygons with the same label). Edge locations generally do not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch. The feature edges, descriptive attributes and feature labels of the quadrangles in the Mescalero-Apache Area , New Mexico Soil Survey do not match with the quadrangles in the Chaves County, Southern Part, New Mexico Soil Survey. The Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico Soil Survey was published in 1976 at 1:31,680 scale. The classification and map unit names were finalized at the final correlation in 1970. An evaluation was made of the soil survey in 2003. It was determined that the soil map unit delineations were accurate. No additional map units were added to the soil survey. 2003-01-01T00:00:00 SCS1 The final publication negatives were used to develop ratioed soil survey film positives. Soil map unit and special soil features delineations were manually recompiled from the soil survey film positives (scale: 24,000) to 4 mil. annotated stable-base overlays that were registered to multiple 7.5 minute orthophotographs and composites. 2003-01-01T00:00:00 USGS1 NRCS1 During the map compilation quality review an evaluation was made of the map unit joins for surrounding soil surveys by a soil data quality specialist. 2004-01-01T00:00:00 USGS1 NRCS1 NRCS3 The annotated overlays were raster scanned on a SCANGRAPHICS CF 500 Scanner at a resolution of 300 dpi. The soil area features and special soil features were processed in LT4X Version 4.11. The soil processing consisted of raster editing, map neatline development, labeling, edge matching and vector conversion. The soil area features and special soil features were written to Digital Line Graph Optional format in LT4X. Digitizing and quality control were done by the geographic information system specialist and cartographic technicians at the Temple, Texas Digitizing and Certification Center. 2004-01-01T00:00:00 NRCS3 The soil area features and special soil features DLGs were imported into ARC/INFO 7.2.1. The 7.5 minute quadrangles for each coverage were merged together into a soil survey area and additional editing was performed. The coverages were edge matched to existing SSURGO data. New DLGs reflecting these changes were written with ARC/INFO 7.2.1. 2004-01-01T00:00:00 NRCS3 The DLG-3 Optional format files were evaluated with the December 2003 ARC/INFO SSURGO Evaluation AMLs provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, Texas. Upon successful completion of the SSURGO Evaluation, the DLGs were processed with the December 2003 archiving AMLs provided by the National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, Texas. 2004-01-01T00:00:00 NRCS3 The National Soil Information System database was developed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientists according to national standards. 2004-01-01T00:00:00 SCS1 The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2004-08-13T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. 2004-08-23T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2005-01-19T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. 2005-01-24T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2006-01-13T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. In this version of the NASIS attribute data, soil properties related to the hydric soil rating were updated and new tabular data and interpretations generated. 2006-01-30T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2006-06-29T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. 2006-07-19T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2006-11-30T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. 2006-12-22T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2008-10-27T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. This update of the tabular data correlates Ecological Site ID numbers to the ESIS name and numbering system, and includes additional soil interpretations for grazing land uses. 2008-11-07T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2008-11-14T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. In this update of the tabular data, additional interpretative tables were generated and uploaded for several uses. 2008-12-09T00:00:00 NASIS The tabular data were extracted from the data mart without change. The spatial data's coordinate system was transformed to UTM Zone 13, Northern Hemisphere (NAD 83) using ESRI ArcObjects 8.3 "ConvertFeatureClass" and exported to an ESRI shapefile. 2009-05-04T00:00:00 NASIS The survey-wide ArcGIS geodatabase from the online SSURGO data were imported to ARC/INFO 9.2 by certification staff at the Montana Digitizing Unit. Topology errors on the boundary, that were flagged in preparation for the National Soils Geospatial Database, were corrected as directed in the National Bulletin: 430-9-5. The survey was smoothed to remove excess vertices that were flagged in preparation for the National Soils Geospatial Database, as directed in the National Bulletin: 430-9-5. Evaluation macros of June 2004 were applied to the data. Map unit labels were compared to an approved map unit legend from the National Soil Information System data base. ARCGIS was used to join to adjacent survey boundaries and verify previous adjacent survey joins. The data were uploaded to the soil data warehouse staging server. 2009-05-08T00:00:00 NRCS4 NRCS5 The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. Selected soil interpretations that have not been validated have been removed. Spatial coverage layers have been updated to provide more precise joins between this and surrounding soil survey areas. (Area and map unit polygons). 2009-09-24T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, generated new rating values for selected interpretations using current interpretation rules from the NASIS database. Selected soil interpretations that have not been validated have been removed. Spatial coverage layers have been updated to provide more precise joins between this and surrounding soil survey areas. (Area and map unit polygons). 2009-09-24T00:00:00 NASIS The spatial data for the Soil Survey of Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico was downloaded from the Soil Data Mart on October 15, 2012. The individual shapefiles were appended into a geodatabase for Region 8. The data were processed in ARCGIS 10.1 using a topology object with a 0.1 meter cluster tolerance for the purpose of eliminating gaps and overlaps within the Region 8 soils geodatabase. Individual soil survey area data were exported as shapefiles from the regional geodatabase. A datum transformation from NAD83 to WGS84 using the NAD_1983_To_WGS_1984_1 datum transformation method was applied to the data. The data were checked with the SSURGO Evaluation scripts provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. The shapefiles were then uploaded to the soil data warehouse for archival and distribution. 2013-08-01T00:00:00 NRCS6 The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp. 2013-12-19T00:00:00 NASIS The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. 2013-12-19T00:00:00 NASIS source of soil map unit delineations and soil symbols 31680 Soil Survey of Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico SCS1 1976-01-01T00:00:00 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service publication date 1976-01-01 final publication negatives used to develop ratioed soil survey film positives 31680 publication annotation overlays NRCS1 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service 1976 1976-01-01 compilation base 24000 multiple 7.5 minute orthophotographs and composites 1991 - 1998 USGS1 1998-01-01T00:00:00 U.S. Geological Survey publication date 2003-01-01 source material for scanning 24000 annotated overlays NRCS3 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service 2004 2004-01-01 attribute (tabular) information National Soil Information System (NASIS) data base NASIS 2004-01-01T00:00:00 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service publication date 2004-01-01 2004-01-01 digital information containing area and special soil features for evaluation 24000 ArcGIS geodatabase files for the soil survey of Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico NRCS4 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service 2009 2009-01-01 map unit legend used for comparison to spatial map unit labels National Soil Information System (NASIS) database for Mescalero-Apache Area, New Mexico NRCS5 2009-01-01T00:00:00 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service export certification date 2009-01-01 Source of digital revision Region 8 soils geodatabase NRCS6 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service SSURGO publication date 2006-01-01 2012-01-01 Earth Data Analysis Center Clearinghouse Manager 505-277-3622 ext. 230 505-277-3614 MSC01 1110 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 USA clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu 0800 - 1700 MT, M-F -7 hours GMT custodian