Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Update: 2022-06-27: Adjusted county boundary geometry to better match the WV DEP 24k topo DRG service. Added new municipal boundaries for Welch, Kimball, St. Marys and Belmont.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Update: 2022-04-14: Boundary between Lincoln and Logan counties adjusted along Guyandotte River to comply with an order of the Lincoln County Circuit Court; Civil Action 16-C-32, dated 4 April 2016. The boundary section in questions is near the community of Harts, Lincoln County, and lies between -82.064067, 38009450; and -82.071527, 38.007447.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>04/21/2021</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Town of Poca, Putnam county - Boundary of Town of Poca in Putnam County was updated using the updated boundary provided by community. Source of oriignal data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_Putnam_County\Export_Output_4.shp</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>12/03/2019</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>FEMA Region III data was joined to th featureclass. All of the the FEMA data is in the end of table. FEMA data starts after OBJECTID_12_13_14__15_16_17</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Orgiinal FEMA Region III data used for join is located at O:\inlandwaters\Flood_Data\Community_Status_Community_Boundary\From_FEMA_RegionIII\FEMA R3 Community Data_CEP_September_Report_for_WV 20191125c sorted POLICY.xlsx</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>10/01/2019</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Community boundaries were updated for the following communities:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Town of Smithers, Fayette County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>2. City of Mount Hope, Fayette County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>3. City of Mullens, Wyoming County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>4. City of Elkins, Randolph County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Modifications to above mentioned communities are based on data provided by </SPAN><SPAN>Scott McAfee (</SPAN><A href="mailto:scott.mcafee@fema.dhs.gov" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN><SPAN>scott.mcafee@fema.dhs.gov</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN>), </SPAN><SPAN>FEMA Region 3 on 9/6/2019.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Original data that has been used to process these communities is stored at following location: \\gistc-filesrv1\onlineDataStorage\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_FEMA\cl2020_v01.gdb\cl2020_v01.gdb\wv_sample</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The West Virginia GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) created this community boundary feature class using Census incorporated area 2018 data (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html). </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Source Location (O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\tlgdb_2018_a_54_wv.gdb) and County boundaries (24K) (source location- \\gistc-filesrv2\vectorData\Boundaries\Boundaries_GDB.gdb\POLITICALBOUNDARY\POLITICBOUNDARY_county24k). </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This Feature class was updated for Tucker County with community=provided incorporated areas, as Census has older data. (Source of Tucker county incorporated data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\Tucker County Town Boundaries_20181210).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>There are 55 counties and 232 communities in West Virginia. However, 8 communities (Wheeling, Weirton, Paden City, Montgomery, Smithers, Huntington, Nitro and Alderson) are split between two counties. For risk analysis projects, these incorporated areas have been split along county boundaries. As a result of the split there are 240 incorporated area polygons and 55 unincorporated area polygons. In total, this feature class contains 290 polygons.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This feature class has also been joined to</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. NFIP table (updated as of Oct 2018) source location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\NFIP_Policy_asof_20180930.xlsx</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>2. CRS table for communities (updated as of Oct 2018) source Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\CRS_Rating_asof_oct2018.pdf</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>3. NFIP Community Status Table (updated as of 4/20/2018) Souce Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\FEMA_CommunityStatusReport_asof_20180403.csv</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>4. West Virginia Regional Planning Development Council Regions - Source Location - http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/dataset.php?ID=30</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The West Virginia State Code states that the boundary lines between the counties of the state are sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (1:24,000 scale) topographic quadrangle maps. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) digitized county boundary lines off of USGS 1:24,000-scale Digital Raster Graphics (DRG, scanned topographic maps), and published the "24k" county boundary in January 2002.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>County boundary lines rarely change, and any changes made will be only as a result of court orders or similar actions by similar authorities. The Circuit Court of Lincoln County handed down such an order in April of 2016. A formerly straight portion of the boundary between Lincoln and Logan counties near Harts, WV now follows the low water mark of the Guyandotte River between 38.007447 N, 82.071527 W, and 38.009450 N, 82.064067 W.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>The WVGISTC revised the Lincoln / Logan GIS boundary features in 2022 according to the court order of 2016 and including the two reference points stated in the order. The WVGISTC also reviewed the boundaries of all 55 WV counties and corrected areas of significant deviation from the "24K" DRG boundary lines.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey, WV Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia GIS Technical Center
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Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The West Virginia State Code states that the boundary lines between the counties of the state are sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (1:24,000 scale) topographic quadrangle maps. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) digitized county boundary lines off of USGS 1:24,000-scale Digital Raster Graphics (DRG, scanned topographic maps), and published the "24k" county boundary in January 2002.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>County boundary lines rarely change, and any changes made will be only as a result of court orders or similar actions by similar authorities. The Circuit Court of Lincoln County handed down such an order in April of 2016. A formerly straight portion of the boundary between Lincoln and Logan counties near Harts, WV now follows the low water mark of the Guyandotte River between 38.007447 N, 82.071527 W, and 38.009450 N, 82.064067 W.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>The WVGISTC revised the Lincoln / Logan GIS boundary features in 2022 according to the court order of 2016 and including the two reference points stated in the order. The WVGISTC also reviewed the boundaries of all 55 WV counties and corrected areas of significant deviation from the "24K" DRG boundary lines.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey, WV Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia GIS Technical Center
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