Land Status and Federal Mineral Ownership in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana: a Digital Data Set for Geographic Information Systems
by Laura R.H. Biewick and Shayne R. Urbanowski, U.S. Geological Survey and Sheila Cain and Larry Neasloney, Bureau of Land Management
The following is a list of the coverages and a brief description of each. More detailed documentation are included in the formal metadata files associated with each coverage. Note: in the ARC/INFO workspace, names are designated by scale; k = thousand and m = million.
Directory and workspace:
| reg4/coverages/scale100k: | |
| 4st_cnty | Line coverage: County and State lines in the four States (Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) encompassing the Powder River Basin -- included for location reference. |
| reg4/prb/coverages/scale500k: | |
| prbbnd | Polygon coverage: the outline of the Powder River Basin defined at the Tertiary-Cretaceous contact (base of the Tertiary Fort Union Formation). |
| reg4/prb/coverages/scale100k: | |
| prb+_own | Polygon coverage: surface and mineral management status in and around the Powder River Basin. |
| reg4/prb/coverages/scale100k: | |
| prb_own | Polygon coverage: surface and mineral management status in the Powder River Basin. |
U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-102