This is a database file of uranium mines for the States of Arizona and New Mexico.
The purpose of this data set is to identify areas where health may be impacted by these abandoned uranium mines.
publication date
9300 Lee Highway
For 725 records, the provided coordinates placed mines outside of the Arizona or New Mexico borders. The outlier records were retained in the final shape file and the Access database. There is a field named "Historical" that appears in the Forest Service data dictionary as "Historical Name". This field was given an alias called Mine_Name so that it would carry over into the composite data field, mine_name
May contain inconsistencies between county and coordinate information.
Complete as far as elements contained in original data source.
Location points were generally very accurate, generally within 50 - 200 meters. No names were assigned to any locational points.
In early 1996, Region 3 began to inventory abandoned mines on National Forest System Lands, per a National Directive. The main purpose of this inventory was to locate and characterize abandoned and inactive mines that potentially pose environmental threats to forest resources. US Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, Contractors and Forest Service personnel began by looking at U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Industry Location Systems (USBM MILS) databases. Sites that were unlikely to pose environmental problems, such as gravel pits, rock quarries, sand pits, etc. were screened out. Field personnel visited sites were not screened out. Field Forms were completed by providing description of the site, sketches of the site, photographs of the site, and when appropriate, water samples, conductivity, and temperature. This resulted in a significant amount of data, all in field forms. These data needed to be compiled and stored digitally for reference by many potential users. This Abandoned and Inactive Mine Sites (AIMS) database contains most of the information found in the field forms. Photographs and sketches are among the information not contained, due to the time required for scanning them in. It is anticipated that this information may be added in the future.
DB13 was received as a shape file with an accompanying data dictionary and user's guide. As with the other files, an ICF_ID was added ranging from 11677 to 14986. The shape file was received with an undefined coordinate system. There are 725 outliners. The outlier records were retained in the final shape file and the Access database. There is a field named "Historical" that appears in the Forest Service data dictionary as "Historical Name". This field was given an alias called Mine_Name so that it would carry over into the composite data field, mine_name.
9300 Lee Highway
internal ID field
ICF Consulting, Inc.
unique ID field, relate to ur2001.shp
ICF Consulting, Inc.
data source ID field
ICF Consulting, Inc.
The unique site numbers contain Region, Forest, District, and four-digit unique site number.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
A two-digit code, which with a Region and Forest uniquely identifies a Forest Service Ranger District.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Forest Service Data Dictionary
The Regional Office assigns The Federal Facility Identification number when a project is proposed. Each Region, National Forest and Research Station will have a unique FFID number.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Forest Service Data Dictionary
The date the survey was taken in the field.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Any recorded name that is found in the records.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Any recorded name that is found in the records.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
County Code
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Indicate feature number associated with Global Positioning System location.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Indicate feature number associated with Global Positioning System location.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Longitude in decimal degrees
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Latidude in decimal degrees
Forest Service Data Dictionary
The name of the 7.5-minute quadrangle largest scale map on which the property is located.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Line extending north and south on the surface of the earth between the two poles, and runs along the astronomical meridian. The principal meridian is the line from which the survey township boundaries along the parallels are initiated, and along which the township, section, quarter, and section corners are established.
Forest Service data dictionary
A public land surveying unit. An approximately square area about six miles on a side with boundaries conforming to meridians and parallels within established limits. It is subdivided into 36 sections, some of which are designed to take up the convergence of the Meridians township boundary lines and accumulated measurement errors. The word township is used in conjunction with the appropriate range to indicate the coordinates of a particular township with references to the initial point.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Any series of contiguous townships situated north and south of each other; also, sections similarly situated within a township. Ranges of townships are numbered consecutively east and west from a principal meridian: thus "range 3 east" indicates the third range or row of townships to the east from a principal meridian.The word "range" is used in conjunction with the appropriate township with reference to the initial point; thus "township 14 north, range 3 east" indicates the particular township which is the 14th township north of the base-line an the 3rd township east of the principal meridian.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
The unit of subdivision of a township; normally a quadrangle 1 mile square, with boundaries conforming to the meridians and parallels within established limits, and containing 640 acres as nearly as possible.
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the American Society of Civil Engineers
Aliquot: A fractional part of a Section.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Elevation
Forest Service Data Dictionary
The classification of federal administration, private, local, or state holdings on the surface estate.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Private Only
Forest Service Data Dictionary
An area or region characterized by the occurrence of specific mineral suites or the nature of mineral deposits.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Mine Owner
Mine status codes
Forest Service Data Dictionary
Abandoned
Active
Abandoned or Inactive
Inactive
Unknown
Designated Wildernes: The land units included in the National Wilderness Preservation System that were authorized and designated by the Wilderness Act of 1964 or subsequent Acts of Congress.
The Wilderness Act Handbook, published by the Wilderness Society, Washington, DC, 1984
Rough draft or outline of the site (when available).
Forest Service Data Dictionary
To officially inspect the place, scene, or point of something.
Forest Service Data Dictionary
ICF_ID field may be used to relate this dbase table to the spatial data set ur2001.shp.
9300 Lee Hwy