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Title: United States National Waterway Network (node), 2008

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2008

Publishers

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Navigation Data Center

Summary

United States National Waterway Network (node), 2008 is a point theme representing physical entities such as river confluences, ports/facilities, and intermodal terminals, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE nodes), or may be inserted for analytical purposes. Approximately 180 USACE ports are geo-coded in the node database. The data set covers the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and water links between. The nominal scale of the dataset varies with the source material. The majority of the information is at 1:100,000 with larger scales used in harbor/bay/port areas and smaller scales used in open waters.

Subjects

  • Oceans
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • InlandWaters
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.3121, 179.13519, 72.19972, -53.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-179.3121, 179.13519, 72.19972, -53.0)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research Vanderbilt University, Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS). United States National Waterway Network (node), 2008. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Navigation Data Center. Point data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-ntad_2008_us_waternode

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English