Madera County Important Farmland
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- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator:
- California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource
Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
- Publication_Date: Even numbered years, starting in
1984.
- Title: Madera County Important Farmland
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital
data
- Description:
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- Abstract:
- Established in 1982, Government Code Section 65570 mandates FMMP to
biennially report on the conversion of farmland and grazing land, and
to provide maps and data to local government and the public.
- Purpose:
- The Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) provides data to
decision makers for use in planning for the present and future use of
California's agricultural land resources. The data is a current
inventory of agricultural resources. This data is for general
planning purposes and has a minimum mapping unit of ten acres.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Single_Date/Time:
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- Calendar_Date: Even numbered years, starting in
1984.
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: In work
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Biennial
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -120.549790
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -119.019692
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.780302
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.759356
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: Farmland
- Theme_Keyword: California Farmland
- Theme_Keyword: Farmland Monitoring
- Theme_Keyword: Urbanization
- Theme_Keyword: Land Use
- Theme_Keyword: Agriculture
- Theme_Keyword: Conservation
- Theme_Keyword: Prime Farmland
- Theme_Keyword: FMMP
- Theme_Keyword: Important Farmland
- Theme_Keyword: Madera
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword: San Joaquin Valley
- Place_Keyword: Madera
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints:
- This data does not reflect general plan or zoning designations, city
limit lines, changing economic or market conditions, or other factors which
may be taken into consideration when land use policies are determined.
This data is not designed to be used for parcel specific planning
purposes due to its scale and the size of the minimum mapping unit (10
acres). The Department of Conservation makes no warranties as to the
suitability of this data for any particular purpose.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
- California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource
Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
- Contact_Position: Staff
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 801 K Street MS 14-15
- City: Sacramento
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 95814-3528
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 916-324-0850
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 916-327-3430
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
fmmp@conservation.ca.gov
- Hours_of_Service: 8am to 5pm PST
- Data_Set_Credit:
- A citation for the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program on any map
products, graphic media, or data analyses based on the data is appreciated.
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro; ESRI ArcCatalog 10.4.1
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Logical_Consistency_Report:
- The Important Farmland survey area is based on Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) modern soil surveys covering most non-governmental lands in California; 49 counties are fully or partially surveyed at this time. Soil surveys specific to National Forests or other government land units are not surveyed. Beginning in 2002, SSURGO digital soil information was incorporated into the Madera County Important Farmland data and the 2016 data began to incorporate the new NRCS Gridded Soil Survey (gSSURGO). Data subsequent to 2002 may have acreage and soil line differences due to incorporation of newer NRCS-SSURGO or gSSURGO editions.
Prior to the availability of SSURGO or gSSURGO, soil information was hand-transferred from the paper soil surveys. Older versions of the data have not been modified. The land use minimum mapping unit of ten acres has not changed, but digital soil units of less than one acre occur in the gSSURGO-enhanced Important Farmland data. The data between 2002 and 2014 incorporates SSURGO and the interaction of land use and soil components resulted in units of less than ten acres for categories such as Other Land (or Nonagricultural and Natural Vegetation). The 2016 data incorporates gSSURGO and will no longer merge resulting polygons less than one acre for any map category. For more information on gSSURGO, contact the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service: <https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/survey/geo/?cid=nrcs142p2_053628>
County boundaries for the 2016 Important Farmland Series are from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Fire and Resource Assesment Program (FRAP) 2009 version of California Counties GIS data. <http://frap.fire.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata-sw-counties_download>
- Completeness_Report: CA651 (Madera area).
- Lineage:
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: Varies by
Year
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Planar:
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- Map_Projection:
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- Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
- Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:
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- Standard_Parallel: 34.000000
- Standard_Parallel: 40.500000
- Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -120.000000
- Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000
- False_Easting: 0.000000
- False_Northing: -4000000.000000
- Planar_Coordinate_Information:
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- Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
- Coordinate_Representation:
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- Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000256
- Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000256
- Planar_Distance_Units: meters
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Update years 1984 to 2012
- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927
- Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.400000
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.978698
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- Update years 2014 and beyond
- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio:
298.257222
- Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Altitude_System_Definition:
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: Important Farmland Categories
- Entity_Type_Definition:
- Technical ratings of the soils and current land use information are
combined to determine the appropriate map category.
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Farmland Mapping and
Monitoring Program
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: OBJECTID
- Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain:
- Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Shape
- Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the
features.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: POLYGON_TY
- Attribute_Definition:
- Identifies the mapping categories used by the Farmland Mapping and
Monitoring Program.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
- Definitions were developed by the USDA-NRCS as part of their
nationwide Land Inventory and Monitoring (LIM) system.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Prime Farmland (P)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Prime Farmland has the best combination of physical and chemical features able to sustain long-term agricultural production. This land has the soil quality, growing season, and moisture supply needed to produce sustained high yields. Land must have been used for irrigated agricultural production at some time during the four years prior to the mapping date.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Farmland of Statewide
Importance (S)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Farmland of Statewide Importance is similar to Prime Farmland but with minor shortcomings, such as greater slopes or less ability to store soil moisture. Land must have been used for irrigated agricultural production at some time during the four years prior to the mapping date.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Unique Farmland (U)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Unique Farmland consists of lesser quality soils used for the production of the state's leading agricultural crops. This land is usually irrigated, but may include nonirrigated orchards or vineyards as found in some climatic zones in California. Land must have been cropped at some time during the four years prior to the mapping date.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Farmland of Local Importance
(L)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Lands that are presently under cultivation for small grain
crops, but are not irrigated. Also lands that are currently
irrigated pasture, but have the potential to be cultivated
for row/field crop use.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Grazing Land (G)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Grazing Land is land on which the existing vegetation is suited to the grazing of livestock.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Urban and Built-Up Land
(D)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Urban and Built-up Land is occupied by structures with a building density of at least 1 unit to 1.5 acres, or approximately 6 structures to a 10-acre parcel. Common examples include residential, industrial, commercial, institutional facilities, cemeteries, airports, golf courses, sanitary landfills, sewage treatment, and water control structures.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Other Land (X)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Other Land is land not included in any other mapping category. Common examples include low density rural developments, brush, timber, wetland, and riparian areas not suitable for livestock grazing, confined livestock, poultry, or aquaculture facilities, strip mines, borrow pits, and water bodies smaller than 40 acres. Vacant and nonagricultural land surrounded on all sides by urban development and greater than 40 acres is mapped as Other Land. This category was subdivided into R, V, Cl, and nv beginning with the 2004 data.
Subsequently, R was subdivided into sAC and R beginning
with the 2006 data.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Water (W)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
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Perennial water bodies with an extent of at least 40 acres.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Area not mapped (Z)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Area which falls outside of the NRCS soil survey. Not mapped by
the FMMP.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Rural Residential Land
(R)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Rural Residential Land includes residential areas of one to five structures per ten acres.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Vacant or Disturbed Land
(V)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Vacant or Disturbed Land includes open field areas that do not qualify for an agricultural category, mineral and oil extraction areas, off road vehicle areas, electrical substations, channelized canals, and rural freeway interchanges.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Confined Animal Agriculture
(Cl)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Confined Animal Agricultural lands include poultry facilities, feedlots, dairy facilities, and fish farms.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Nonagricultural and Natural
Vegetation (nv)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Nonagricultural and Natural Vegetation includes heavily wooded, rocky or barren areas, riparian and wetland areas, grassland areas which do not qualify for grazing land due to their size or land management restrictions, small water bodies and recreational water ski lakes. Constructed wetlands are also included in this category.
- Enumerated_Domain:
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- Enumerated_Domain_Value: Semi-Agricultural and Rural
Commercial Land (sAC)
- Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
- Semi-Agricultural and Rural Commercial Land includes farmsteads, agricultural storage and packing sheds, unpaved parking areas, composting facilities, equine facilities, firewood lots, and campgrounds.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: POLYGON_AC
- Attribute_Definition: The acreage of the polygon
feature.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Computer
calculated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: COUNTY_NAM
- Attribute_Definition: County name identified by a three
letter abbreviation.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
- County abbreviations are in the text file located at the following
url: <ftp://consrv.ca.gov/pub/dlrp/FMMP/county_index.txt>
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the
features.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: UPD_YEAR
- Attribute_Definition: The year the data was captured.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: FMMP updates their data
biennially.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: SHAPE_LENG
- Attribute_Definition: Perimeter of the polygon feature in
meters.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Computer calculated.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are
automatically generated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: SHAPE_AREA
- Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in meters
squared.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: Computer calculated.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are
automatically
generated.
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
- California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource
Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
- Contact_Position: Staff
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 801 K Street MS 14-15
- City: Sacramento
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 95814-3528
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 916-324-0850
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 916-327-3430
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
fmmp@conservation.ca.gov
- Resource_Description:
- Downloadable Data. Visit: <ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/dlrp/FMMP/>
- Standard_Order_Process:
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- Digital_Form:
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- Digital_Transfer_Information:
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- Transfer_Size: Varies by
County
- Custom_Order_Process:
- For custom products you can contact us at fmmp@conservation.ca.gov or
call (916) 324-0850
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 20170615
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
- California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource
Protection, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program
- Contact_Position: Staff
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 801 K Street MS 14-15
- City: Sacramento
- State_or_Province: California
- Postal_Code: 95814-3528
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 916-324-0850
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 916-327-3430
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address:
fmmp@conservation.ca.gov
- Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital
Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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