FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: HISTORIC CEMETERIES IN FLORIDA - OCTOBER 2019

Geodataset Name:       SHPO_CEMETERIES_OCT19
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         1448
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains historic cemetery boundaries and basic cemetery 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_CEMETERIES_OCT19.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
SITEID
8 String
SITENAME
40 String
SURVEYNUM
5 String
CITY
40 String
YEARESTAB
5 String
OWNERSHIP
35 String
CEMTYPE1
50 String
CEMTYPE2
50 String
ETHNICGRP1
24 String
ETHNICGRP2
24 String
ETHNICGRP3
24 String
ETHNICGRP4
24 String
STATUS
24 String
CONDITION
50 String
SHPOEVAL
30 String
D_NRLISTED
36 Date
PLOTTYPE
4 String
DESCRIPT
40 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
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 optional single letter character suffix (suffix letter is generally used to indicate sites that are functionally or spatially related).

SITENAME The cemetery name is recorded at the Florida Master Site File. This is usually the principal or best known name for a cultural resource. A site name of "NN" indicatesno name has been designated for the site.

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

CITY Nearest city or town to the cemetery.

YEARESTAB If known, the actual date the cemetery was established.

OWNERSHIP Ownership type.

CEMTYPE1 Cemetery type. Explanations of the types follow:
COMMUNITY = A cemetery established by a group of families or residents of small villages which do not have an organized political structure.

COMPANY TOWN = A cemetery associated with a community established for individual workers by a specific company mining, textile, iron working, cigar manufacturing, etc..

EPIDEMIC = A cemetery that was established to bury victims of an epidemic disease such as cholera, yellow fever, or influenza.

FAMILY = A small, private burial place for members of the immediate or extended family.

FRATERNAL ORDER = A burial ground established for a fraternity or other social organization

MEMORIAL PARK = A cemetery established as a component part of a memorial park.

MILITARY NOT NATIONAL = A burial ground established for war casualties, veterans, and eligible dependents.

MUNICIPAL = A cemetery established by an agency of local government.

NATIONAL = One of 130 burial grounds established by the Congress of the United States since 862 for interment of armed forces servicemen and women whose last service ended honorably.

POTTER'S FIELD = A place for the burial of indigent or anonymous persons.

PRISON = A cemetery associated with a state or federal prison that is used for burial of inmates who died while incarcerated.

RELIGIOUS = A cemetery or graveyard associated with an organized religion.

RURAL MOVEMENT = A burial place characterized by spacious landscaped grounds and romantic commemorative monuments established in a rural setting in the period of the young republic and at the dawn of the Victorian era.

OTHER = If the cemetery type does not fall into one of the categories listed above it may be listed as other.


CEMTYPE2 See above

ETHNICGRP1 Ethnic groups interred

ETHNICGRP2 Ethnic groups interred

ETHNICGRP3 Ethnic groups interred

ETHNICGRP4 Ethnic groups interred

STATUS Current status of cemetery.

CONDITION Condition of the cemetery.

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.

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

PLOTTYPE A value of 'NORM' in this field indicates that the plot represents the actual boundary of the cultural resource as recorded by the surveyor. A value of 'GV' General Vicinity in this field indicates that the site plot DOES NOT represent actual site boundaries, but rather bounds an area within which the site is believed to be located.

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on SITENAME

FGDLAQDATE Date FGDL obtained data from source.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
The historic cemetery 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 cemeteries recorded at the Site File represent only a fraction of the historic 
cemeteries present statewide.
This data set updates and replaces all previous versions of the Florida Master Site 
File historical cemeteries data layer.  This version incorporates newly recorded 
cemeteries and updates to 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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Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
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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 
boundary data are based on field recording forms and site plots submitted to the 
Site File.  Florida Master Site File site folders contain an historic cemetery form with 
descriptive location data, photographs and any site plots provided by the cemetery
recorder.

This data layer was created using on-screen (heads-up) digitizing of cemetery 
locations in ArcMap.  Scanned, georeferenced, 1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangles 
and ESRI world imagery map services were 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_cemeteries_jul19 from HistoricalCemeteries 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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