New Mexico State Parks
Metadata from the RGIS Metadata Repository
Identification Information
- Title New Mexico State Parks
- Date 2025-01-22
- Date Type Publication
- Cited Responsible Party
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- Organization Name Data developed by Eleanore Nestlerode, NM State Land Office IT/GIS Analyst,
in cooperation with Rob Love, New Mexico State Parks. Initial metadata provided by E. Nestlerode, and modified by Rick
Koehler, EMNRD ITO GIS Coordinator. Parks boundaries reviewed/vetted by State Parks staff, including Cynthia
Lovely, Dave Gatterman, Rob Love, and Rob Vadurro. 2023 updates by Joey Fleming.
- Role identify
- Presentation Form vector digital data
- Abstract This dataset provides an initial version of the generalized physical
boundaries of New Mexico State Parks, in polygonal form with limited attributes,
compiled using available data from a variety of sources. The boundaries have been
digitized from AutoCAD drawings and/or from legal descriptions, supplemented by
digital orthophotography cross-checking, and adjusted to the GCDB when possible. The
dataset will be refined in the future to include other attributes and provide better
accuracy.
- Purpose This dataset is intended to provide public users with the approximate location
of New Mexico State Park boundaries, for use in statewide or regional studies, and
is not intended to legally define said boundaries adn was updated in 2023.
- Supplemental Information One type of polygon is provided in this public edition: State Parks, which
illustrate outlines of state parks and areas of joint management with other
agencies. An internal edition exists which also includes types of "Potential" (which
illustrate lands which are being considered for inclusion into a state park) and
"Internal" (which illustrates park boundary within a polygon which includes that
state park and an area of joint management).
- Data Set Credit Eleanore Nestlerode, New Mexico State Land Office (primary credit); Rob Love,
Cynthia Lovely, and Rob Vadurro, State Parks Division of the State of NM Energy,
Mineralsand Natural Resources Department (EMNRD); Rick Koehler, Information
Technology Office of EMNRD.
- Status In work
- Point of Contact
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name State of New Mexico Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department
- Position Name GIS Coordinator
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-476-3300
- Facsimile
- Address
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- Delivery Point 1220 South St. Francis Drive
- City Santa Fe
- Administrative Area New Mexico
- Postal Code 87505
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address rick.koehler@state.nm.us
- Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed
- Descriptive Keywords NM State Park Boundaries
- Access Constraints No access restraints are imposed at this time.
- Use Constraints This data shall not be used to define legal boundaries of State Parks, nor to
define the limits of jurisdiction or ownership between adjacent property owners. Use of
this data implies authors' release from liability as to accuracy of data.
- Language English
- Topic Category
- Extent
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- Geographic Bounding Box
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- West Bound -108.070885659
- East Bound -103.27866353
- North Bound 36.982972134
- South Bound 31.811596085
- Temporal Extent
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- DateTime 2023
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Distribution Information
- Distributor
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center
- Position Name Clearinghouse Manager
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230
- Facsimile 505-277-3614
- Address
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- Delivery Point MSC01 1110
- Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
- City Albuquerque
- Administrative Area NM
- Postal Code 87131-0001
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
- Transfer Options
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- Online Resource ZIP
- Online Resource ESRI Shapefile (shp)
- Online Resource GML
- Online Resource KML
- Online Resource GeoJSON
- Online Resource JSON
- Online Resource Comma Separated Values (csv)
- Online Resource MS Excel format (xls)
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Spatial Reference Information
- Spatial References
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- Spatial Reference NAD 1983 UTM Zone 13N
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- Online Reference EPSG:26913
- Indirect Spatial Reference New Mexico
- Geometric Object Type G-polygon
- Geometric Object Count 34
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Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
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- Report Attributes in this initial version largely consist of the name of the State
Park. The names were compared with the names given by State Parks to judge accuracy.
One attribute "County", which provided a county name to be associated with each
State Park, was eliminated, as the location of a boundary or Park vis-a-vis any
particular county can be ascertained by other means, and for the more important
reason that several NM State Parks are located across county boundaries, and hence
can not be described by a single county attribute. The park names were edited once
at EMNRD to reflect the names used by State Parks to refer to each park; there were
differences between the name attribute givien by SLO and those used by State Parks
(eg., "Bluewater Creek" is actually "Bluewater Lake", "Sugarite" is actually
"Sugarite Canyon", etc.).
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
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- Attribute Accuracy Value
- Attribute Accuracy Explanation
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
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- Report Tested by visual comparison with the original source materials,
orthophotos (1 meter RGB from 2005-6 and other years) and legal
descriptions.
- Quantitative Horizontal Positional Accuracy Assessment
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- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Value
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Explanation
- Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
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- Report No vertical accuracies are given or implied.
- Quantitative Vertical Positional Accuracy Assessment
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- Vertical Positional Accuracy Value
- Vertical Positional Accuracy Explanation
- Logical Consistency Report Line segments making up the inner and outer boundaries of of a polygon tie end-to-end
to completely enclose the area. No duplicate features exist. All nodes are represented
by a single coordinate pair which indicates the beginning or end of a line
segment.
- Completeness Report All boundaries for existing New Mexico State Parks, as of January 2009, are
depicted in this dataset. The public version of this dataset does not contain potential
State Parks or other non-finalized entities. Due to the source data accuracy
limitations, there may be portions of existing State Parks not depicted as such in this
version, or areas depicted as being within the bounds of State Parks which, in fact, are
not. More complete analyses of legal descriptions, supplemented by increased locational
accuracies, will likely result in a revised (and more "complete") dataset.
- Lineage
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- Source Information
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- Source Citation
- Source Scale Denominator 24000
- Type of Source Media paper
- Source Time Period of Content
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- DateTime Unknown
- Source Currentness Reference publication date
- Source Citation Abbreviation pap1
- Source Contribution park boundaries on paper documents. Note: the Source Scale Denominator
refers to some but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials
had a range of scales. There is insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the
full range of source materials used, scales, etc.
- Source Information
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- Source Citation
- Source Scale Denominator 5000
- Type of Source Media computer program
- Source Time Period of Content
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- DateTime Unknown
- Source Currentness Reference publication date
- Source Citation Abbreviation cad1
- Source Contribution AutoCAD drawing(s) of parks boundary. Note: the Source Scale Denominator refers to some
but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales. There is
insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales,
etc.
- Source Information
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- Source Citation
- Source Scale Denominator 24000
- Type of Source Media varies
- Source Time Period of Content
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- DateTime Unknown
- Source Currentness Reference publication date
- Source Citation Abbreviation legal1
- Source Contribution Legal descriptions of parks boundaries in paper or digital formats. Note: the Source Scale Denominator refers to some but
not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales. There is insufficient data at this stage
to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales, etc. AutoCAD drawing(s) of parks boundary. Note: the Source
Scale Denominator refers to some but not all of the paper source materials; other source materials had a range of scales.
There is insufficient data at this stage to ascertain the full range of source materials used, scales, etc.
- Process Step
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- Process Description The following process description was provided by Eleanore Nestelrode of
the NM SLO: "State parks boundaries were derived using a variety of methods. The
majority of boundaries were either direct CAD-to-GIS conversions or digitized
from georeferenced CAD import; a few boundaries were digitized from
interpretation of legal description. All boundaries were compared with digital
orthophotography (ECW files, ca. 2005-2006, downloaded from http://rgis.unm.edu)
for logical fit. Vertices were snapped to GCDB PLSS where applicable for
consistency."
- Process Date 2008-08-04
- Process Time
- Process Contact
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- Individual Name Eleanore Nestlerode
- Organization Name
- Position Name IT/GIS Business Analyst
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-827-5727
- Facsimile
- Address
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- Delivery Point Post Office Box 1148
- City Santa Fe
- Administrative Area New Mexico
- Postal Code 87504-1148
- Country USA
- Address
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- Delivery Point 310 Old Santa Fe Trail
- City Santa Fe
- Administrative Area New Mexico
- Postal Code 87501
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address ENestlerode@slo.state.nm.us
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Metadata Reference Information
- File Identifier 057d2f19-4ec6-47d5-82a4-f03309ef94fb
- Metadata Language English
- Hierarchy Level Dataset
- Date Stamp 2025-07-31
- Metadata Standard Name ISO 19115:2003
- Metadata Standard Version 1.0
- Metadata Contact
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center
- Position Name Clearinghouse Manager
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230
- Facsimile 505-277-3614
- Address
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- Delivery Point MSC01 1110
- Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
- City Albuquerque
- Administrative Area NM
- Postal Code 87131-0001
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
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