National Wild and Scenic River Segments (Feature Layer)

This polyline feature class depicts the classification of each wild and scenic river segment designated by Congress and the Secretary of the Interior for the United States and Puerto Rico. This layer was created by a multi-agency effort including the US Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service. 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). Wild rivers are free of dams, generally inaccessible except by trail, and represent vestiges of primitive America. Scenic rivers are free of dams, with shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. Recreational rivers are readily accessible by road or railroad, may have some development along their shorelines, and may have been dammed in the past. Metadata

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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identifier https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/maps/usfs::national-wild-and-scenic-river-segments-feature-layer
issued 2017-04-14
landingPage https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/maps/usfs::national-wild-and-scenic-river-segments-feature-layer
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
metadata_type geospatial
modified 2019-04-23
old-spatial -163.3000,18.2333,-65.7486,69.0551
programCode {005:059}
publisher U.S. Forest Service
resource-type Dataset
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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]]]}
theme {geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • blm
  • ckan
  • fs
  • fws
  • geo
  • geoss
  • hydrography
  • inland-waters
  • national
  • nhd
  • north-america
  • nps
  • open-data
  • recreation
  • river
  • scenic
  • united-states
  • wild
  • wild-and-scenic-rivers
isopen True
license_id cc-by
license_title Creative Commons Attribution
license_url http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
maintainer USFSEnterpriseContent
maintainer_email SM.FS.data@usda.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T21:36:33.812593
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T21:36:33.812597
notes This polyline feature class depicts the classification of each wild and scenic river segment designated by Congress and the Secretary of the Interior for the United States and Puerto Rico. This layer was created by a multi-agency effort including the US Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service. 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). Wild rivers are free of dams, generally inaccessible except by trail, and represent vestiges of primitive America. Scenic rivers are free of dams, with shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. Recreational rivers are readily accessible by road or railroad, may have some development along their shorelines, and may have been dammed in the past. <a href='https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.WildScenicRiverSegment_LN.xml' target='_blank'>Metadata</a>
num_resources 6
num_tags 21
title National Wild and Scenic River Segments (Feature Layer)