FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
(VERSION 2003)
HISTORIC CEMETERIES
Geodataset Name: SHPO_CEMETERIES Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POLYGON
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains historic cemetery boundaries and basic cemetery attributes as recorded at the Florida Master Site File.
DATA SOURCE(S): Bureau of Archaeological Research SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: 1:100,000 DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: August 2002 GEODATASET EXTENT: State of FloridaFEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: SHPO_CEMETERIES.DBF ALIAS WIDTH TYPE PRECISION Shape 8 SHAPEPOLY 0 Area 18 DECIMAL 5 Perimeter 18 DECIMAL 5 Cemeteries 11 DECIMAL 0 Cemeteries 11 DECIMAL 0 Siteid 8 CHARACTER 0 Formno 6 CHARACTER 0 Sitename 40 CHARACTER 0 Survnum 20 DECIMAL 5 Surveynum 6 DECIMAL 0 City 24 CHARACTER 0 Year_estab 5 CHARACTER 0 Ownership 50 CHARACTER 0 Cem_type 50 CHARACTER 0 Ethnic_1 24 CHARACTER 0 Ethnic_2 24 CHARACTER 0 Ethnic_3 24 CHARACTER 0 Ethnic_4 24 CHARACTER 0 Status 24 CHARACTER 0 Condition 50 CHARACTER 0 Shpo_eval 30 CHARACTER 0 D_nrlisted 8 DATE 0 Plot_type 4 CHARACTER 0 Descript 40 CHARACTER 0
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION
SHAPE Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format, which defines
the data as a point, polyline, or polygon.
AREA The area of the polygon in coverage units
PERIMETER The perimeter of the polygon in coverage units
CEMETERIES Arc/Info internal id number
CEMETERIES-ID Arc/Info user id number
SITEID This is the state site number (used as the primary key for all Site
File databases). The state site number is an eight character
string containing a two character county code, a five character
numeric code ranging from 00001 to 99999, and an optional single
letter character (suffix letter is generally used to indicate sites
that are functionally or spatially related).
FORMNO The Site File ID of the site form used to create this record (the
active form).
SITENAME The cemetery name as recorded at the Florida Master Site File. This
is usually the principal or best known name for a cultural
resource. A site name of "NN" indicates no name has been
designated for the site.
SURVEYNUM The serial number assigned by the Site File to the report or
manuscript produced by the survey or project which identified or
reexamined the cultural resource. Not all cemeteries have an
associated report or manuscript.
CITY Nearest city or town to the cemetery.
YEAR_ESTAB If known, the actual date the cemetery was established.
OWNERSHIP Ownership type.
CEM_TYPE Cemetery type. Explanations of the types follow.
Community: A cemetery established by a group of families or
residents of small villages which do not have anorganized
politicalstructure.
Company Town: A cemetery associated with a community
established for individual workers by a specific company
(mining, textile,iron working, cigar manufacturing, etc.).
Epidemic: A cemetery that was established to bury victims of an
epidemic disease such as cholera, yellow fever, or influenza.
Family: A small, private burial place for members of the
immediate or extended family.
Fraternal Order: A burial ground established for a fraternity
or other social organization.
Memorial Park: A cemetery established as a component part of a
memorial park.
Military (not national): A burial ground established for war
casualties,veterans, and eligible dependents.
Municipal: A cemetery established by an agency of local
government.
National: One of 130 burial grounds established by the Congress
of the United States since 1862 for interment of armed forces
servicemen and women whose last service ended honorably.
Potter's Field: A place for the burial of indigent or anonymous
persons.
Prison: A cemetery associated with a state or federal prison
that is used for burial of inmates who died while incarcerated.
Religious: A cemetery or graveyard associated with an organized
religion.
Rural Movement: A burial place characterized by spacious
landscaped grounds and romantic commemorative monuments
established in a rural setting in the period of the young
republic and at the dawn of the Victorian era.
Other: If the cemetery type does not fall into one of the
categories listed above it may be listed as other.
ETHNIC_1-4 Ethnic group(s) interred.
STATUS Current status of cemetery.
CONDITION Condition of the cemetery.
SHPO_EVAL Evaluation of Florida's State Historic Preservation Officer
(SHPO) concerning the eligibility of the resource for listing
on the National Register of Historic Places. In Florida, the
SHPO is the Director of the Division of Historic Resources,
acting through his staff in the Bureau of Historic
Preservation. Values in these fields are limited to a discrete
list of possibilities used in the Site File Smartform program.
A list of these values can be found in the field descriptions
included in the cemetery Smartform, available at
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/msf/smartform.html.
D_NRLISTED Date that the site was officially listed in the National
Register of Historic Places. The field is blank if the site is
not marked in the Site File database as listed on the National
Register.
PLOT_TYPE A value of 'NORM' in this field indicates that the plot
represents the actual boundary of the cultural resource as
recorded by the surveyor. A value of 'GV' (General Vicinity)
in this field indicates that the site plot DOES NOT represent
actual site boundaries, but rather bounds an area within which
the site is believed to be located.
Descript Based on SITENAME
USER NOTES:
LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA/WARNINGS TO THE USER: The historic cemetery data are based on field reports which have been submitted by many and varied individuals, groups, institutions, and cultural resource firms. Submissions to the Site File are sometimes accepted from amateurs as well as professionals. The locations are only as accurate as the locational information submitted to the Site File by the site recorder. The accuracy of submitted information cannot always be verified. The absence of a cultural resource in this data layer does not preclude the existence of an unrecorded resource in the field. The cemeteries recorded at the Site File represent only a fraction of the historic cemeteries present statewide. The locations of archaeological sites, historic structures, unmarked human burials, cemeteries, and other cultural features contained in this (and other) Site File data layers are for resource management, law enforcement, and research purposes only. State law protects archaeological remains on state owned and controlled lands (section 267.13, Florida Statutes). State law protects human burial sites on all lands (sections 872.02 and 872.05, Florida Statutes). A note concerning data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/educa tion.html
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
-Set Tolerances to FGDL Standards -Added DESCRIPT field based on SITENAME -Projected to FGDL albers
REFERENCES:
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
This data was originally created by the Division of Historical Resources. The data was received on a CDrom in Coverage format. The data was released in August 2002. When received, the data was in the following projection: Geographic, Datum: NAD27, Spheroid: Clarke 1866, Units: Decimal Degrees. The shapefile was projected to FGDL Albers HPGN (See "Map Projection Parameters" below) in ArcToolBox using the Florida Harn Transformation.
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection ALBERS Datum HPGN Units METERS Spheroid GRS1980 1st Standard Parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd Standard Parallel 31 30 0.000 Central Meridian -84 00 0.000 Latitude of Projection's Origin 24 0 0.000 False Easting (meters) 400000.00000 False Norting (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: Vincent S. Birdsong or Dr. Marion F. Smith, Jr.
Florida Master Site File
Address: Division of Historical Resources
R. A. Gray Building
500 South Bronough St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250
Phone: (850) 245-6440
Fax: (850) 245-6439
Email: General Site File: fmsfile@mail.dos.state.fl.us
Site File Supervisor: msmith@mail.dos.state.fl.us
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library
Abbr. Name: FGDL
Address: Florida Geographic Data Library
431 Architecture
PO Box 115706
Gainesville, FL 32611-5706
Web site: http://www.fgdl.org
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