METADATA
FOR HISTORIC CEMETERIES GIS DATA LAYER
JULY
2004
DATASET NAME: [CountyName]_Cemeteries
DATASET TYPE: ESRI Shapefile
Format
FEATURE TYPE: Polygons
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: This dataset contains historic cemetery
boundaries and basic cemetery attributes as recorded at the Florida Master Site
File.
PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection Geographic Coordinates
Units Decimal Degrees
Datum NAD27
Spheroid Clarke 1866
COMPUTER HARDWARE USED: Microsoft Windows-Based PCs and
Servers
GIS SOFTWARE: ESRI ArcGIS 8.3
DATA VERSION: July 2004: This data set updates and replaces
all previous versions of the Florida Master Site File historical cemeteries
data layer. This version incorporates
newly recorded cemeteries and updates to previously recorded ones. Data from the Florida Master Site File are
continually updated. This data layer is
only current as of the date of this document.
Contact the Florida Master Site File for updated data layers.
DATA SOURCE: Source data were created by the
Division of Historical Resources. The original boundary data are based on field
recording forms and site plots submitted to the Site File. Florida Master Site File site folders contain
an historic cemetery form with descriptive location data, photographs and any
site plots provided by the surveyor.
DERIVATION METHODS FOR DATA: This data layer was created using
on-screen (heads-up) digitizing of cemetery locations in Arc/Info. Scanned, georeferenced,
1:24,000 scale USGS quadrangles in geographic coordinates (lat./long., NAD27) were used as the background reference
images. In many cases the cemeteries
already appear on the quad maps.
ATTRIBUTE TABLE FIELD LIST AND
DESCRIPTIONS:
Name Type Length
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SITEID String 8
SITENAME
String 40
SURVEYNUM
String 5
CITY
String 24
YEARESTAB
String 5
OWNERSHIP
String 35
CEMTYPE1
String 50
CEMTYPE2 String
50
ETHNICGRP1
String 24
ETHNICGRP2
String 24
ETHNICGRP3
String 24
ETHNICGRP4
String 24
STATUS String 24
CONDITION
String 50
SHPOEVAL
String 30
D_NRLISTED Date
8
PLOTTYPE
String 4
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SITEID: This is the official state site
number assigned by the Florida Master Site File. The state site number is an eight character
string containing a two character county code, a five character numeric code,
and an optional single letter character suffix (suffix letter is generally used
to indicate sites that are functionally or spatially related).
SITENAME: The cemetery name as recorded at
the Florida Master Site File. This is usually the principal or best known name
for a cultural resource. A site name of
"NN" indicates no name has been designated for the site.
SURVEYNUM: The serial number assigned by the
Site File to the manuscript produced by the project which identified or
reexamined the cultural resource. Not
all cemeteries have an associated report or manuscript.
CITY: Nearest city or town to the
cemetery.
YEARESTAB: If known, the actual date the
cemetery was established.
OWNERSHIP: Ownership type.
CEMTYPE1 - CEMTYPE2: Cemetery type. Explanations of the types follow.
COMMUNITY: A cemetery established
by a group of families or residents of small villages which do not have an
organized political structure.
COMPANY TOWN: A cemetery associated
with a community established for individual workers by a specific company
mining, textile, iron working, cigar manufacturing, etc..
EPIDEMIC: A cemetery that was
established to bury victims of an epidemic disease such as cholera, yellow
fever, or influenza.
FAMILY: A small, private burial
place for members of the immediate or extended family.
FRATERNAL ORDER: A burial ground
established for a fraternity or other social organization.
MEMORIAL PARK: A cemetery
established as a component part of a memorial park.
MILITARY NOT NATIONAL: A burial
ground established for war casualties, veterans, and eligible dependents.
MUNICIPAL: A cemetery established
by an agency of local government.
NATIONAL: One of 130 burial grounds
established by the Congress of the United States since 862 for interment of
armed forces servicemen and women whose last service ended honorably.
POTTER'S FIELD: A place for the
burial of indigent or anonymous persons.
PRISON: A cemetery associated with
a state or federal prison that is used for burial of inmates who died while
incarcerated.
RELIGIOUS: A cemetery or graveyard
associated with an organized religion.
RURAL MOVEMENT: A burial place
characterized by spacious landscaped grounds and romantic commemorative
monuments established in a rural setting in the period of the young republic
and at the dawn of the Victorian era.
OTHER: If the cemetery type does
not fall into one of the categories listed above it may be listed as other.
ETHNICGRP1 - ETHNICGRP4: Ethnic groups interred.
STATUS: Current status of cemetery.
CONDITION: Condition of the cemetery.
SHPOEVAL: Evaluation of Florida's State
Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) concerning the eligibility of the resource
for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In Florida, the SHPO is the Director of the
Division of Historical Resources, acting through staff in the Bureau of
Historic Preservation (BHP). Generally
the Site File database only contains evaluations made by the Compliance Review staff
of BHP. Some properties may be listed on
the NRHP without having been reviewed by Compliance Review staff. Therefore, an NR list date (indicating a
property is NR listed) takes priority over a 'Not Evaluated by SHPO' value in
this field. Values in this field are
limited to a discrete list of possibilities used in the Site File database
lookup table. Contact the Site File for
more information.
D_NRLISTED: Date that the site was officially
listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The field is blank if the FMSF database does
not indicate the property is National Register listed.
PLOTTYPE: A value of 'NORM' in this field
indicates that the plot represents the actual boundary of the cultural resource
as recorded by the surveyor. A value of
'GV' General Vicinity in this field indicates that the site plot DOES NOT
represent actual site boundaries, but rather bounds an area within which the
site is believed to be located.
LIMITATIONS OF THE DATA/WARNINGS TO THE
USER: The historic
cemetery data are based on field reports which have been submitted by many and
varied individuals, groups, institutions, and cultural resource firms. Submissions to the Site File are sometimes
accepted from amateurs as well as professionals. The locations are only as accurate as the locational information submitted to the Site File by the
site recorder. The accuracy of submitted
information cannot always be verified.
The absence of a cultural resource in this data layer does not preclude
the existence of an unrecorded resource in the field. The cemeteries recorded at the Site File
represent only a fraction of the historic cemeteries present statewide.
The
locations of archaeological sites, historic structures, unmarked human burials,
cemeteries, and other cultural features contained in this and other Site File
data layers are for resource management, law enforcement, and research purposes
only. State law protects archaeological
remains on state owned and controlled lands section 267.13, Florida Statutes. State law protects human burial sites on all
lands sections 872.02 and 872.05, Florida Statutes.
COUNTY CODES:
AL
Alachua HA Hamilton OK Okaloosa
BA
Baker HR Hardee OB Okeechobee
BY
Bay HN Hendry OR Orange
BF
Bradford HE Hernando OS Osceola
BR
Brevard HG Highlands PB Palm Beach
BD
Broward HI Hillsborough PA Pasco
CA
Calhoun HO Holmes PI Pinellas
CH
Charlotte IR Indian River PO Polk
CI
Citrus JA Jackson PU Putnum
CL
Clay JE Jefferson SJ St. Johns
CR
Collier LF Lafayette SL St. Lucie
CO
Columbia LA Lake SR Santa Rosa
DA
Dade LL Lee SO Sarasota
DE DeSoto LE Leon SE Seminole
DI
Dixie LV Levy SM Sumter
DU
Duval LI Liberty SU Suwannee
ES
Escambia MD Madison TA Taylor
FL
Flagler MA Manatee UN Union
FR
Franklin MR Marion VO Volusia
GD
Gadsden MT Martin WA Wakulla
GI
Gilchrist MO Monroe WL Walton
GL
Glades NA Nassau WS Washington
GU Gulf
CONTACTS:
Name: Vincent Birdsong or Dr. Marion Smith
Florida Master Site File
Address: Bureau of Archaeological Research
R. A. Gray Building
500 South Bronough St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250
Phone: (850) 245-6440
Fax: (850) 245-6439
Email: General Site File: fmsfile@dos.state.fl.us
GIS Supervisor: vbirdsong@dos.state.fl.us
Site File Supervisor: msmith@dos.state.fl.us
Report
prepared by Vincent S. Birdsong
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