FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: HISTORIC BRIDGES IN FLORIDA - OCTOBER 2019

Geodataset Name:       SHPO_BRIDGES_OCT19
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polyline
Feature Count:         1456
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This data set contains historic bridge locations and basic bridge attributes as recorded at the Florida Master Site File.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Bureau of Archaeological Research
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     24000
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 201910 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 201910 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: SHPO_BRIDGES_OCT19.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
SITEID
8 String
SITENAME
40 String
SURVEYNUM
5 String
FDOTNUM
7 String
YEARBUILT
5 String
CONDITION
12 String
LENGTH
5 String
ENGINEERS
70 String
OWNERSHIP
35 String
DESIGN1
40 String
DESIGN2
40 String
MATERIAL1
20 String
MATERIAL2
20 String
INUSE
4 String
D_NRLISTED
36 Date
SHPOEVAL
30 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
DESCRIPT
40 String
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

SITEID This is the official state site number assigned by the Florida Master Site File. The state site number is an eight character string containing a two character county code, a five character numeric code, and an optionalsingle letter character suffix (suffix letter is generally used to indicate sites that are functionally or spatially related).

SITENAME The bridge name as recorded at the Florida Master Site File. This is usually the principal or best known name for a cultural resource.

SURVEYNUM The serial number assigned by the Site File to the manuscript produced by the project which identified or reexamined the cultural resource. Not all bridges have an associated report or manuscript.

FDOTNUM The FDOT number is six positions in length, with the first two numbers as the defining code for the county. The remaining four positions are used as a unique number for the bridge within the county. A zero value for this field indicates there is no FDOT number for the bridge.

YEARBUILT The initial date of the bridge's physical construction. A value of 'UNKN'for this field indicates the year of construction is unknown.

CONDITION The overall condition of the bridge.

LENGTH Overall length of the bridge in feet.

ENGINEERS The primary designers/engineers of the bridge if known.

OWNERSHIP Ownership type.

DESIGN1 Bridge design.

DESIGN2 Additional bridge design.

MATERIAL1 Construction material.

MATERIAL2 Construction material.

INUSE Indicates whether or not the bridge is currently in service.
YES = for in service.

NO = for not in service.

Blank = if not recorded.


D_NRLISTED Date that the site was officially listed on the National Register of HistoricPlaces (NRHP). The field is blank if the FMSF database does not indicate the property is National Register listed.

SHPOEVAL Evaluation of Florida's State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) concerning the eligibility of the resource for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In Florida, the SHPO is the Director of the Division of Historical Resources, acting through staff in the Bureau of Historic Preservation (BHP). Generally the Site File database only contains evaluations made by the Compliance Review staff of BHP. Some properties may be listed on the NRHP without having been reviewed by Compliance Review staff. Therefore, an NR list date (indicating a property is NR listed) takes priority over a 'Not Evaluated by SHPO' value in this field. Values in this field are limited to a discrete list of possibilities used in the Site File database lookup table. Contact the Site File for more information.

FGDLAQDATE Date FGDL obtained data from source.

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on SITENAME

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.LEN Length in meters


USER NOTES:
The historical bridge data are based on field reports which have been submitted
by many and varied individuals, groups, institutions, and cultural resource firms.  
Submissions to the Site File are sometimes accepted from amateurs as well as 
professionals.  The locations are only as accurate as the locational information 
submitted to the Site File by the site recorder.  The accuracy of submitted 
information cannot always be verified.  The absence of a cultural resource in this 
data layer does not preclude the existence of an unrecorded resource in the field.  
The bridges recorded at the Site File represent only a fraction of the historic 
bridges present statewide.
This data set updates and replaces all previous versions of the Florida Master Site 
File historical bridges data layer.  This version incorporates newly recorded bridges 
and updates of previously recorded ones.

Data from the Florida Master Site File are continually updated.  This data layer is 
only current as of the date of this document.  Contact the Florida Master Site File 
for updated data layers.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS 
systems for a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

The locations of archaeological sites, historic structures, unmarked human burials,
bridges, and other cultural features contained in this (and other) Site File data 
layers are for resource management, law enforcement, and research purposes 
only.  State law protects archaeological remains on state owned and controlled 
lands (section 267.13, Florida Statutes).  State law protects human burial sites on 
all lands (sections 872.02 and 872.05, Florida Statutes).

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A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes.
Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
county level.
1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
as property parcel boundaries.
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Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be
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made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
Bureau of Archaeological Research:
http://www.flheritage.com/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Source data were created by the Division of Historical Resources. The original 
location data are based on field recording forms and map plots submitted to the 
Site File.  Florida Master Site File site folders contain an historic bridge form with 
descriptive location data, photographs, and any site plots provided by the 
surveyor.

This data layer is maintained by on-screen (heads-up) digitizing bridge locations in 
ESRI ArcMAP.  Scanned, georeferenced, 1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangles in 
geographic coordinates (lat./long., NAD27) are used as the background reference 
images.
Process Date: Unknown

When received by GeoPlan, the data was in the following projection: Geographic, Datum: WGS 1984 Units: Decimal Degrees. The shapefile was projected to Albers HARNin ArcToolBox using the following transformation: WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida -Reprojected to Albers HARN -Added DESCRIPT field based on SITENAME to attribute table -Added fields FGDLAQDATE -Upcased all items in the attribute table -Changed file name to shpo_bridges_jul19 from HistoricalBridges Process Date: 20191015
Dataset copied. Process Date: 20191018
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
Bureau of Archaeological Research
BAR
R. A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough St.
Tallahassee, FL
32399-0250
(850) 245-6440

http://www.flheritage.com/ fmsfile@dos.state.fl.us Vincent Birdsong or Dr. Marion Smith

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