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The County feature class is the spatial representation of the United States Counties and equivalent governmental units. The data are an extract of the Census codes and boundaries from the following Census FTP site: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/. Since the Census data do not include the coastline detail, the coastal boundaries have been included through a spatial erase using the Census Hydrography data from the Census FTP site: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/AREAWATER/. The County feature class is a US Forest Service Standard Reference Dataset and is the preferred spatial representation of counties. This feature class should be used for small-scale cartographic products. To satisfy both performance improvement & geometry representation, the following parameters & geoprocessing method were used. Simplifies the input features using the Douglas-Peucker simplification algorithm with a specified maximum offset tolerance of 375 Meters. The output features will contain a subset of the original input vertices. Min scale refers to what scale the layer turns off when zooming out. Max scale refers to the scale the layer turns off at when zooming in.Min scale: 0, no minimum scale set Max Scale: 1:4622325 |