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National Wild and Scenic River Lines (Feature Layer)

Metadata Updated: December 2, 2025

This polyline feature class depicts the river corridors of each Wild and Scenic River designated by Congress or the Secretary of the Interior for the United States and Puerto Rico. This GIS data layer was created from a mulit-agency effort by the US Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Managment, and the US Fish and Wildlife Servce. The spatial data were referenced to the latest High Resolution National Hydrological Data Layer (NHD 1:24,000 Scale or better), published by United States Geological Survey (USGS). Metadata

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025
Publisher U.S. Forest Service
Maintainer
Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=71c40a05063f4e6ebec08af558a9145c&sublayer=0
Data First Published 2017-04-14
Data Last Modified 2025-12-01
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:96
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id fd09f55a-fd0a-4758-b3b8-0f60ca79b7e2
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::national-wild-and-scenic-river-lines-feature-layer
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -163.3000,18.2333,-65.7486,69.0551
Program Code 005:059
Progresscode onGoing
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 88ef3a40f262412a393242ade6d019e0b86c80c89a7ba1e8be65614419c9bec3
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -163.3000, 18.2333, -163.3000, 69.0551, -65.7486, 69.0551, -65.7486, 18.2333, -163.3000, 18.2333}

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