Description: Riparian stream locations collected by the Chatham County Environmental Quality division utilizing GPS. The streams are attributed with a stream type based on transition point data also collected in the field using GPS.
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Description: Wetland boundaries maintained by the Chatham County Environmental Quality division. The boundaries are drawn based on the corners that are collected using GPS in the field.
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Description: River and Stream lines that represent flowlines and cartographic features such as stream centerlines and river banks in Chatham County, NC. This feature class contains all of the streams, rivers, and creeks located within and along the Chatham County boundary. A smaller, more refined dataset of just the major waterline features in Chatham County exists in the reference dataset within the Chatham County enterprise GIS database.
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Description: Polygon features representing waterbodies in Chatham County, NC. This feature class contains all waterbody polygons in Chatham County, NC. A smaller, more refined dataset of just the major waterbodies in Chatham County exists in the reference dataset within the Chatham County enterprise GIS database.
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Description: This dataset was downloaded in July 2015 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website (http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/data/State-Downloads.html) and clipped out of the NC state wetland feature class using the Chatham County boundary. The clipped feature class was imported into the Chatham County enterprise GIS database for visual and analytical purposes in Chatham County mapping operations. The dataset is maintained by the Chatham County GIS department utilizing the source data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on an as needed basis.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.
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Description: Polygon feature service representing watersheds that include federally endangered species in Chatham County. Data is provided by North Carolina Ecological Service. Currently, the only species protected in Chatham County is the Cape Fear Shiner. This is a species of freshwater fish in the Cyprinidae family, is endemic to the upper Cape Fear River Basin in the Central Piedmont of North Carolina. The main tributaries and mainstreams of the Deep, Haw, Rocky and upper Cape Fear River.
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Description: Polygon features delineating the Chatham County, NC watershed boundaries. This feature class is primarily utilized to show the boundaries as reference on map layouts.
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Description: Provide all currently-inventoried Chatham County, NC bridge structures in one consistent format for query and display. These data are current through May 2015 for bridges maintained by NCDOT's Bridge Maintenance Unit. The data from NCDOT was downloaded in July 2015 and imported into Chatham Counties' enterprise GIS database utilizing Esri's local governemnt information model.
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Description: Line features representing railroad tracks in Chatham County, NC. The feature geometry was downloaded from the NCDOT website in July 2015 and imported into Chatham Counties' enterprise GIS database utilizing Esri's local government information data schema.
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Description: Polygon features representing different land cover classifications within Chatham County, NC. The source and currency of the data is unknown, but likely came from a state or federal agency.
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