BORDNER8

Description: 1930s land use/land cover survey of what is now the federal land
Last Update: 1994
Data Type: Polygon
Source Data: Bordner Survey, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture
Source Data Date: 1930s
Source Data Scale: 1:63360 (1 inch = 1 mile)
Source Data Projection:

In the 1930s the State Department of Agriculture conducted the Wisconsin Land Inventory, also known as the Bordner Survey. The inventory was published by county. Photocopies of the pages covering Whitestown and Stark Townships were obtained from the Department of Natural Resources Research Library in Madison. Land use/land cover types are mapped at a scale of one inch to one mile. In digitizing the surveys, section corners were used as control points. The survey should serve as a crude approximation of historical land cover for the early 1930s.

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TYPE, TYPE2: primary and secondary land cover types (see bordner.lut below)
DIAMLO: lower bound of tree diameter range in inches
DIAMHI: upper bound of tree diameter range in inches
DENS: forest density

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BORDNER.LUT

RecordTYPETYPEDEF
1
2A1Upland hardwoods
3A3Swamp hardwoods
4B1Hardwoods with conifers
5B2White pine
6CCleared crop land
7D1Oak-hickory
8PPasture
9PPPermanent pasture
10SPStump pasture
11UNKUnknown
12UnkUnknown