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Title: Massachusetts Major Rivers and Streams

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2001-07
  • Coverage: 1998

Summary

This datalayer is a polyline coverage displaying major streams and rivers throughout Massachusetts. This layer was derived from the Massachusetts Electronic Atlas (MEA) which was a collaborative project to provides access, via the Internet, to data about the Commonwealth, its thirteen regional planning agency districts and 351 cities and towns. This dataset is now only available via The Harvard Geospatial Library. The data here were originally produced by MassGIS. More information on their original datalayer may be found at: http://www.state.ma.us/mgis/hd100_.htm

Subjects

  • Massachusetts
  • inlandWater
  • Hydrography
  • Rivers
  • Streams
  • Hydrographic features
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.521607, -69.944356, 42.887854, 41.242388)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-73.521607, -69.944356, 42.887854, 41.242388)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Massachusetts Major Rivers and Streams. Line data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-meamjstrln

Format

Shapefile