stunitco: SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with FIA state, unit, county codes...

stunitcoR Documentation

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with FIA state, unit, county codes and names

Description

Polygon feature class with state and county boundaries defined by Census Bureau, including Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes. The FIA Survey Unit code and name attributes (UNITCD, UNITNM) were appended to dataset, with joining columns of STATECD and COUNTYCD.

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 3233 features and 8 attributes RS - FIA Research Station name RSCD - FIA Research Station code STATECD - FIPS state code STATENM - FIPS state name STATEAB - FIPS state abbreviation UNITCD - FIA survey unit code UNITNM - FIA survey unit name COUNTYCD - FIPS county code COUNTYNM - FIPS county name

Details

Derived from cb_2018_us_county_5m. STATEFP was converted to numeric and named STATECD COUNTYFP was converted to numeric and named COUNTYCD Lookup table for FIA Research Station (REF_RESEARCH_STATION) was downloaded from FIA DataMart on 20191105 (FIADB_1.6.1.00) and joined by STATECD. A lookup table for UNITCD was created from plot data using unique STATECD, COUNTYCD, UNITCD and joined to table.

Converted to simple feature
Transformed CRS from longlat(EPSG:4269) to Albers (EPSG:5070)
Saved to R object, with compression='xz'

Source

Downloaded from the United States Census Bureau on 2019 November 3, format Esri Shapefile (https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html) Projection: Geographic (GCS_North_American_1983) EPSG: 4269


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