Water wells in the Town of Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin; well point features (2017; 1:50,000 scale; tol_wellpoint.shp)

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Citation_Information:
Title:
Water wells in the Town of Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin; well point features (2017; 1:50,000 scale; tol_wellpoint.shp)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: 3817 Mineral Point, Madison, WI, 53711, US
Publisher: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Description:
Abstract:
This point feature class is comprised of the locations of private and public drinking water wells. The data is derived from Well Construction Reports (WCRs) submitted by well drillers to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) from approximately 1920 through 2015. Initial point locations are determined either using latitude / longitude coordinates, the street address of the property where the well is drilled, or the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) information recorded by the well driller. Each point is inspected individually, and in combination with the owner's name and/or the street or road where the well is constructed, each point is moved to the structure(s) referenced in the well construction report, and then given a "Location Confidence" (LocConf). The LocConf represents the estimated accuracy of the point location relative to the actual physical location of the well. After all the points have been individually inspected, an elevation value is attached to each point from the most accurate source available. For the Town of Lincoln wells the elevation of each point is derived from a 5-foot resolution lidar derived digital elevation model (DEM).More details about the closed depression map and the modeling procedure to delineate closed depressions are included in the following report: Parsen, M.J., Mauel, S.W., Streiff, C.M., 2017, Hydrogeological characterization of the Town of Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Open File Report 2017-05.
Purpose:
These data accompany the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS) Open-File Report 2017-05. This feature class provides estimated point locations of private and public drinking water wells. A portion of these well construction records are presented in map 3 of this report, “Input datasets for depth-to-bedrock” but the dataset also contains information about the geology and hydrogeology at each well location that was used to inform the water-table-elevation interpretation (map 4).
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.652463
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.512785
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.682893
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.581790
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Town of Lincoln
Theme_Keyword: Kewaunee County
Theme_Keyword: well construction report
Theme_Keyword: hydrogeology
Theme_Keyword: geology
Theme_Keyword: geologic
Theme_Keyword: lithology
Theme_Keyword: wells
Theme_Keyword: groundwater
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsin
Theme_Keyword: WCR
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
This dataset was developed from sources of varying map scales and may not be accurate for site-specific applications without verification. These data represent work performed by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. Please contact gis@wgnhs.uwex.edu with any questions or comments.THESE DATA ARE PROVIDED BY THE WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY (WGNHS) ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. WGNHS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THESE DATA, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL. WGNHS MAKES NO WARRANTIES ON THESE DATA, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF ANY AGREEMENT OR COMMUNICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 3817 Mineral Point
City: Madison
State_or_Province: WI
Postal_Code: 53711
Country: US
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@wgnhs.uwex.edu
Data_Set_Credit:
This project was completed by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS), UW-Extension, with support from the Town of Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
Additional support from the Kewaunee County Land Information Office (LIO), as part of a separate county-wide well construction report compilation effort, contributed to the completion of this well database.
WCR database compilation and editing by C.W. Streiff and S.W. Mauel.
Native_Data_Set_Environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Well construction reports commonly contain errors and spurious data. The accuracy of the well attributes presented here depend on the quality of the initial data reported by well drillers. The well locations vary in accuracy; the estimated confidence in well location is denoted by the “LocConf” field.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Digital WCR Database Construction: Well Construction Reports (WCRs) submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) from approximately 1988 to the present are available in a digital database format on CD. Each WCR is assigned a Wisconsin Unique Well Number (WUWN) as the unique identifier to catalogue the WCRs within the database. When constructing the WCR database, the WGNHS uses the WUWN as the primary key linking the WCR feature class with the hydrogeologic data table and the lithologic data table within the database. Using the interactive database form on the WDNR CD, the WCRs for a county are selected and exported to a database file. The exported WCR database file contains three sets of attributes that can be used to geocode the well points: latitude/longitude, the street address, and the PLSS coordinates. First, the records with latitude/longitude coordinates are selected from the WDNR WCRs, exported, and converted to points. The WCRS with latitude/longitude are inspected to confirm that each point is in the correct location. Second, the WCR records that do not have latitude/longitude coordinates are geocoded by street address if a street address has is recorded for that WCR. The WCR address is geocoded using a property parcel file, an address point file, or a roads shapefile that has address range information for each road segment. The property parcel, address points, and roads data is typically acquired from the county land information office, or whomever handles the spatial data requests for the county of interest. When a street address from a WCR record matches a street address from a record in the file used to create the Address Locator, the geocoding will result in a point that is relatively close to the actual physical location of the well. Addresses in the WDNR WCR CD are submitted by the well constructor and have not been edited or standardized in any way by the WDNR. Road and highway names are misspelled and there are various abbreviations for the same road or highway name. In order to produce the best possible geocoding results using address points or property parcels, the address information exported from the WDNR CD is formatted by WGNHS staff prior to geocoding or during interactive address matching. Third, WCR records that could not be geocoded by either latitude/longitude or street address are geocoded by Public Land Survey System (PLSS) coordinates. The well driller is required to provide the PLSS coordinates on the well construction report. In some cases PLSS coordinates on the WCR are only recorded down to the quarter section or section. In these cases, the property parcel file and county plat books are referenced to identify the well location by using the property owner’s name and the street name of the well location. Verification of well point locations is performed by WGNHS staff in a GIS. A variety of georeferenced air photos, property parcel data, address point data, tax roll information, county plat books, roads data, and anything else that may help confirm a well location, are referenced in order to place each well point near the object or structure(s) referenced in the WCR. WGNHS staff then estimate the “location confidence” for each well point. The location confidence is an estimation of the distance a between the well point and the possible physical location of that the well. This process is subjective, and judgment about the location confidence of each well point is based on review of all the data available. WCR records that can’t be geocoded, or have locations that cannot be confirmed, are not removed from the dataset, but instead given a location confidence of “unlocatable” so they can be accounted for in any future updates to the database.
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 371
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1983 HARN Wisconsin TM
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -90.0
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
False_Easting: 520000.0
False_Northing: -4480000.0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000000002220024164500956
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000000002220024164500956
Planar_Distance_Units: meter
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983 HARN
Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: tol_wellpoint
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: WGNHS_ID
Attribute_Definition:
8-digit integer assigned as a unique identifier for internal cataloguing at the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: WUWN
Attribute_Definition:
Wisconsin Unique Well Number - A 5-character alphanumeric unique identifier assigned to each well construction report submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WDNR
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Compl_Date
Attribute_Definition:
Completion Date - The date of the completed construction of the well as reported by the well driller to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Attribute_Definition_Source: WDNR
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: ImageNum
Attribute_Definition:
Image number - an identifer linking a well to a scanned image of the original paper well construction report.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: LocConf
Attribute_Definition:
Location Confidence - An integer value coinciding with the “LocConfDescr” that signifies the estimated accuracy of the point location relative to the actual physical location of the well according to the information provided in the well construction report. The Coded Domain Values for the LocConf field are as follows: Not Locatable = 0, Unverified = 1, County = 10, Township = 20, Section (1140m/3740ft) = 30, Quarter Section (570m/1870ft) = 40, Quarter-Quarter Section (280m/920ft) = 50, 230m (750ft) = 52, 150m (500ft) = 57, 100m (330ft) = 60, 60m (200ft) = 65, 30m (100ft) = 70, 15m (50ft) = 75, 10m (30ft) = 77, 1m (3ft) = 80. These definitions are also provided in the field d_LocConf.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: bottom
Attribute_Definition:
An integer value representing the "bottom" of the well in feet from land surface, or the maximum depth to which the well was drilled, as reported by the well driller on the well construction report.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WDNR
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: depth2bedr
Attribute_Definition:
Depth to Bedrock - A value representing the depth in feet to the first geologic formation recorded by the well driller that qualifies as bedrock (sandstone, limestone, granite, basalt, etc.) The value was determined by a query of a table of lithologic records associated with each well.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: geocode_tr
Attribute_Definition:
A text field used to track the method used geocode each point during the initial geocode.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: HiCap_Num
Attribute_Definition:
High Capacity Well Number – A number generated by the WDNR to permit and catalog high capacity wells in Wisconsin.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WDNR
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: depth2watr
Attribute_Definition:
A value representing the depth in feet from land surface to the static water level in the well, as measured by the well driller.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WDNR
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: d_LocConf
Attribute_Definition:
Definitions for the location confidence code given in the "LocConf" field.
Attribute_Definition_Source: WGNHS
Distribution_Information:
Distribution_Liability: See access and use constraints information.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: Personal GeoDatabase Feature Class
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20171103
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 3817 Mineral Point
City: Madison
State_or_Province: WI
Postal_Code: 53711
Country: US
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: gis@wgnhs.uwex.edu
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Use_Constraints:
This dataset was developed from sources of varying map scales and may not be accurate for site-specific applications without verification. These data represent work performed by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. Please contact gis@wgnhs.uwex.edu with any questions or comments.THESE DATA ARE PROVIDED BY THE WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY (WGNHS) ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. WGNHS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THESE DATA, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL. WGNHS MAKES NO WARRANTIES ON THESE DATA, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF ANY AGREEMENT OR COMMUNICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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