It is a digitized version of the original township by township survey maps produced by the General Land Survey of the United States Government. The survey took place in 1858 with the map with property boundaries published in 1863. The purpose of this coverage is to be a part of a time series of maps which show property ownership changes in the lower Dungeness watershed from 1863 to 1992. More detailed information about these coverages is available in Penelope Eckert's PhD Thesis, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, June 1998.
Coverage is topologically clean.
They also noted coastlines, meander lines of rivers, and the presence of dwellings, fences, and fields. In addition, they were required to make sufficient note of vegetation, soils, and topography. The original canvas maps are available at the federal government's Sandpoint Archives, while the maps and notes are available on microfiche from the Bureau of Land Management, Portland. Township and section lines on these maps were used to determine property boundaries for this coverage. The Olympic Natural Resource Center cannot assure the reliability or suitability of this information for a particular purpose.