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Washington_County_2022_GeologicFormations

Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

This layer contains data concerning the location and characteristics of bedrock, mappable geologic units, within Washington county. This geodatabase contains geologic data from Washington County, Maryland. Data from several geologic quadrangles and two regional scale geologic maps were incorporated into the regional scale geologic feature classes in this geodatabase. Because of the scale of this map, some features were generalized slightly from the quad scale data. Additionally, some corrections were made for accuracy, such as edge matching to resolve "border faults". The source data for this map and geodatabase come from maps published by the Maryland Geological Survey from 2001 to the present, as well as one map published in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. The source maps are Buckeystown (2001), Catoctin Furnace (2004), Frederick (2004), New Windsor (2004), Point of Rocks (2004), Walkersville (2004), Woodsboro (2004), Middletown (2005), Union Bridge (2006), Funkstown (2009), Keedysville, Shepherdstown, Charlestown, and Harpers Ferry (2009), Myersville and Smithsburg (2009), Hagerstown (2013), Mason and Dixon (2013), Clear Spring and Hedgesville (2014), Williamsport (2014), Blue Ridge Summit (2021, in review), Emmitsburg and Taneytown (2021, in review), all 1:24000 quadrangle scale, as well as portions of two regional maps: Geologic Map of Garrett, Allegany, and Western Washington Counties, Maryland (2013), and Geologic Map of the Frederick 30' x 60' Quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia (USGS, 2007). The GIS data from the referenced maps were mosaiced in Arc Map, corrected for accuracy across quad boundaries, merged to form a continuous dataset and clipped to the extent of Washington County. Feature level metadata are included, which contain field descriptions for each feature class. This is a small scale dataset, appropriate for 1:100,000 regional scale. Quad scale data are suggested for display or analysis that requires a larger scale. This dataset is prepared for compliance with the USGS GeMS database standard. Last Updated: 06/01/2022

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Metadata Created Date July 26, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025

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Harvested from md json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 26, 2025
Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
Publisher opendata.maryland.gov
Maintainer
Identifier https://opendata.maryland.gov/api/views/vucr-2imw
Data First Published 2025-07-22
Data Last Modified 2025-07-29
Public Access Level public
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Metadata Catalog ID https://opendata.maryland.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id ee165ef5-7b35-41a7-b3a5-5479c71b0e58
Harvest Source Title md json
Homepage URL https://opendata.maryland.gov/d/vucr-2imw
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 5945a28dac853e7ab97e404a69495203b1a9832ea96d00b6aaf77ffb407693b6
Source Schema Version 1.1

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