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Title: Coastal GeoNames, Northeast United States, 2010

• United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• United States. Department of Commerce
• United States. National Ocean Service
• Coastal Services Center (U.S.)

Dates

• Issued: 2011
• Coverage: 2010

Publishers

• Coastal Services Center (U.S.)

Summary

This point shapefile contains geographic names for coastal areas in the Northeastern United States. The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public. The GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names data; the official vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the Federal Government; and the source for applying geographic names to Federal electronic and printed products of all types. To support coastal and ocean planning and other activities pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act, Energy Policy Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Rivers and Harbors Act and the Submerged Lands Act. U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service and NOAA Coastal Services Center. (2011). Coastal GeoNames, Northeast United States, 2010. NOAA Coastal Services Center.. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/dv526vc6189. Not to be used for navigation This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Location
• Buzzards Bay (Mass. : Bay)
• Cape Cod Bay (Mass.)
• Casco Bay (Me.)
• Connecticut
• Maine
• Maine, Gulf of
• Massachusetts Bay (Mass.)
• Massachusetts
• Nantucket Sound (Mass.)
• New Hampshire
• New York (State)
• Penobscot Bay (Me.)
• Rhode Island Sound (Mass. and R.I.)
• Rhode Island
• Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Vineyard Sound (Mass.)
• Names, Geographical
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.990417, -66.948588, 45.670341, 40.51844)
• Geometry: BBOX (-73.990417, -66.948588, 45.670341, 40.51844)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States. Department of Commerce, United States. National Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center (U.S.). Coastal GeoNames, Northeast United States, 2010. Coastal Services Center (U.S.). Point data. https://purl.stanford.edu/dv526vc6189

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English