Description: Database of Montana Counties created to be coincident with the Montana Cadastral Parcel Boundaries. Where county boundaries are coincident with public land survey section lines, they were copied from the BLM's Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB). If boundaries were not coincident with GCDB lines, they were digitized on screen from 1:24,000 scale Geological Survey Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs). County Boundaries will change as the GCDB is adjusted by the BLM and those data are imported into the Cadastral Data Model.
Copyright Text: US Bureau of Land Management, Geographic Coordinate Database, US Geological Survey 1:24,000 Digital Raster Graphics
Description: Database of Montana Counties created to be coincident with the Montana Cadastral Parcel Boundaries. Where county boundaries are coincident with public land survey section lines, they were copied from the BLM's Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB). If boundaries were not coincident with GCDB lines, they were digitized on screen from 1:24,000 scale Geological Survey Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs). County Boundaries will change as the GCDB is adjusted by the BLM and those data are imported into the Cadastral Data Model.
Copyright Text: US Bureau of Land Management, Geographic Coordinate Database, US Geological Survey 1:24,000 Digital Raster Graphics
Description: Montana's landscape is a complex, constantly changing patchwork of federal, state, private and tribal ownership. Within these ownerships are many kinds of designations, including wilderness, parks, wildlife areas, recreation areas, and conservation easements. Because information on land stewardship is critical to effective land management, the Montana Natural Heritage Program began integrating ownership and management data into a land stewardship mapping data system in 1997. The goal of the Montana Land Stewardship Mapping Project is to manage a single, statewide digital data set that incorporates information from both public and private entities. The project assembles information on land ownership and management, conservation easements, state and federal agencies, and land trusts on a regular basis, with a major database update occurring regularly. The Montana Managed Areas layer contains information on special land designations that impact management decisions. Examples include Tribal Nations Reservations, National Wildlife Refuges, State Parks, and Wilderness Areas. Managed Area boundaries do no necessarily correspond to ownership boundaries; a Managed Area may be made up of fee lands, easements, leased lands, and/or other terms. The other Stewardship layers may be referred to for ownership and conservation easement information. Visit the Montana State Library to obtain Conservation Easement and Public Lands data. Map features in this dataset are not intended as a legal depiction of public or private surface land ownership boundaries and should not be used in place of a survey conducted by a licensed land surveyor. Similarly, map features do not imply public access to any lands.
Description: Feature class of Montana State Boundary was created to be coincident with the Montana County Boundaries, GCDB, and Cadastral Parcel Boundaries. Where the boundary is coincident with public land survey section lines, they were copied from the BLM's Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB). If boundary was not coincident with GCDB lines, they were digitized on screen from 1:24,000 scale Geological Survey Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs). The state boundary will change as the GCDB / Montana CadNSDI is adjusted by the BLM / Montana State Library and those data are incorporated with the Montana Spatial Data Infrastructure Administrative Boundaries & Cadastral datasets.
Copyright Text: US Bureau of Land Management, Geographic Coordinate Database, US Geological Survey 1:24,000 Digital Raster Graphics, Montana State Library