Publication Date: April 2025.
This data represents Federal properties in New York State derived from a combination of the USGS National Boundary Dataset (NBD) with NYS Publicly Available Parcel data.
USGS GU_Reserve feature class "...include extents of forest, grassland, park, wilderness, wildlife, and other reserve areas useful for recreational activities, such as hiking and backpacking. Boundaries data are acquired from a variety of government sources. The data represents the source data with minimal editing or review by USGS." More information and detailed metadata is available here: https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/data/USGS:6dcde538-1684-48a0-a8d6-cb671ca0a43e.
NYS ITS Geospatial Services publicly available parcel data selection of [OWNER_TYPE] field, where 1 = Federal Classification is based solely on the parcel owner name indicating that the property is owned by the United States. Parcel data that is not publicly available is not included. More information and detailed metadata is available here: https://gis.ny.gov/parcels.These two datasets were combined with a minimum of available common attributes, indicating the Name, Owner, and Address of the property where applicable and/or available. Unique identifiers were retained to link records back to the original datasets. Work to improve and expand upon this Federal properties GIS dataset is on-going.
Please contact NYS ITS Geospatial Services at nysgis@its.ny.gov if you have any questions.