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Geospatial data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Montezuma Castle National Monument

Metadata Updated: October 5, 2025

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles.

In the final map, 12 vegetation associations were attributed to 73 total polygons: 10 associations to 44 polygons at the Castle unit and 9 associations to 29 polygons at the Well unit. Polygons ranged in size from less than 0.5 hectares (1.23 ac, associated with numerous community polygons divided by roads and water), to 31 hectares (76.6 ac, for a stand of Canotia holocantha Shrubland Association that spans the entire eastern boundary of the Castle unit). This latter polygon accounts almost 8% of the vegetated area across the park. At the Castle unit, riparian communities covered roughly 20% (60 ha, 148 ac) of the vegetated area, including polygons attributed as water. Upland communities covered around 53% (156 ha, 385 ac), and floodplain communities covered 27% (80 ha, 197 ac). At the Well unit, riparian communities covered roughly 20% (21 ha, 52 ac) of the vegetated area, including polygons attributed as water. Upland communities covered around 63% (63 ha, 156 ac), and floodplain communities covered 16% (16 ha, 40 ac).

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 5, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI NPS DCAT-US

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 5, 2025
Publisher National Park Service
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:24
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Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/nps-data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Title DOI NPS DCAT-US
Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2267399
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 010:119, 010:118
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 734dc1b024a68d3aaee96c1a9bc03f97a7b3736b44af15c423a03968d709f38a
Source Schema Version 1.1
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