Lower Mississippi River - circa [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {1899}
Department of the Interior
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1899
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- Title
- Lower Mississippi River - circa [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {1899}
- Description
- This webmap is derived from an online source (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h14b0450). Map of the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River from the head of St. Francis Basin to the Gulf of Mexico, showing lands subject to overflow, location of levees and trans-alluvial profilesThe map shows the landscape configuration and the approximate extent of overbank flooding before extensive construction of the levees in the early 1900s. The map was georectified using ERDAS Imagine and contemporary data sources. Edited (to correct position of panels) and georeferenced by Yvonne Allen (USFWS) to geographic NAD1927 using ArcGIS , 3rd order polynomial and 80 ground control points using lat lon grid.Online repo:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/58f66491e4b0bd52222f7821
- Creator
- Department of the Interior
- Temporal Coverage
- 1899
- Date Issued
- 2025-04-14
- Rights
- The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee. As a result of the above considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.
- Access Rights
- Public
- Format
- Imagery
- Language
- English
- Date Added
- April 24, 2025
