USGS Central Region Energy Resources Team

Central Region Energy Resources Team

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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 

APPENDIX 4

The following is an overview of items found in tables (other than those created by ARC/INFO) in each ArcView project view. More detailed information is contained in the formal metadata files associated with each coverage.

Attributes of States and counties:

Source Each line has a code showing where the U.S. Bureau of Census obtained the data:

Value
A
B
D		 Description
1980 GBF/DIME-file
USGS 1:100,000-Scale DLG-3 File
Census Bureau Precensus Update

Boundary type All arcs are encoded as follows:

0 Coastline of the United States
1 State-state border occurring on land
2 County-county border, within state, occurring on land
5 International border occurring on land

Attributes of Land status 1 (extends beyond the Powder River Basin):

Surface Ownership Number of polygons in coverage

8-character (or less) as follows:

ACQ
BJ
BLM
BREC
COE
DOD
FED
FS
INUN

NG
NPS
PRIVATE
PW
PWR
SREC
STATE
TL
WATER

 (Acquired Lands)
(Bankhead Jones Land Use Lands)
(Bureau of Land Management)
(Bureau of Reclamation)
(Corps of Engineers)
(Department of Defense)
(other Federal)
(Forest Service)
(Land subject to controlled inundation)
mostly or entirely State Park
(National Grasslands)
(National Park Service)
(private)
(Power Withdrawals)
(Public Water Reserves)
(State Recreation Area)
(State)
(Tribal Lands)
(water)

2
714
4,915
81
2
17
4
381
3

394
5
14,620
2
4
102
3,369
161
1,425

  Federal mineral ownership

8-character (or less) code as follows:

ALL
COAL
NONE
OG
OGC
OGC+
OTHER
R		 (All minerals)
(Coal only)
(No Federal minerals)
(Oil and Gas only)
(Oil, Gas and Coal only)
(Oil, Gas, Coal and other minerals)
(other)
(restricted minerals)

12,263
3,303
8,442
519
310
2
287
26

Attributes of Federal surface 1: (extends beyond the Powder River Basin) - same as Attributes of Land status

Attributes of Federal minerals 1: (extends beyond the Powder River Basin) - same as Attributes of Land status


Attributes of Land status 2 (the Powder River Basin):

Surface ownership Number of polygons in coverage

8-character (or less) code as follows:

BJ
BLM
DOD
FED
FS
NG
PRIVATE
PWR
STATE
TL
WATER		 (Bankhead Jones Land Use Lands)
(Bureau of Land Management)
(Department of Defense)
(other Federal)
(Forest Service)
(National Grasslands)
(private)
(Public Water Reserves)
(State)
(Tribal Lands)
(water)		 175
2,899
16
2
298
211
9,022
3
1,632
37
399

Federal mineral ownership

8-character (or less) code as follows:

ALL
COAL
NONE
OG
OGC
OGC+
OTHER
R		 (All Minerals)
(Coal only)
(No Federal minerals)
(Oil and Gas only)
(Oil, Gas and Coal only)
(Oil, Gas, Coal and other minerals)
(other)
(restricted minerals)		 6,945
2,771
4,232
62
251
2
182
26

 

Attributes of Federal surface 2: (the Powder River Basin) - same as Attributes of Land status 2

Attributes of Federal minerals 2: (the Powder River Basin) - same as Attributes of Land status 2

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