Viewing this information is highly recommended in order to understand the Historic Shoreline Database completely. Read.me1 is a summary of the Historic Shoreline Database and Read.me2 explains the naming conventions and types of data found in each directory. Historic Shoreline Drawings Historic Shoreline map images. The maps range from the mid 1800's to the late 1970's or early 1980's. Historic Map Source Bibliography Map bibliography for each county in the Historic Shoreline Database.
Bibliography includes the digitized historic source map titles, dates, coordinates and scales.
MHW positions have been and continue to be extracted from DEP beach profile surveys and added to the tables. The format of these tables is explained in the file eg.fil stored in this directory. Profile Data Beach profile data from which MHW data have been extracted and added into the MHW tables. Survey data is in standard DEP format. See notes about Profile Data in Read.me1 and Read.me2 in the Historic Shoreline Information directory.