National Park Service, Intermountain Support Office, GIS Program USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Unpublished Material vector digital data http://www1.usgs.gov/vip/beol/beolgeodata.zip doi:10.5066/F71C1TTS This is a polyline vector file showing the a graphical representation of the park boundary of Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site adjusted to coincide with the existing western fenceline. Dataset includes a roughtly sketched line on the western side of the park to coincide with the GPSed fence data representing the western extent of the park. Information for most of the park boundary comes from the distributed National Park Service boundary file created and maintained by Dean Tucker. Illustrate the boundary of Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. The intended use of all data in the park's GIS library is to support diverse park activities including planning, management, maintenance, research, and interpretation. William and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the original fort on this site in 1833 to trade with plains Indians and trappers. The adobe fort quickly became the center of the Bent, St.Vrain Company's expanding trade empire that included Fort St.Vrain to the north and Fort Adobe to the south, along with company stores in Mexico at Taos and Santa Fe. The primary trade was with the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians for buffalo robes. For much of its 16-year history, the fort was the only major permanent Caucasian settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements. The fort provided explorers, adventurers, and the U.S. Army a place to get needed supplies, wagon repairs, livestock, food, water, rest and protection in this vast "Great American Desert." During the war with Mexico in 1846, the fort became a staging area for Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny's "Army of the West". Disasters and disease caused the fort's abandonment in 1849. Archeological excavations and original sketches, paintings and diaries were used in the fort's reconstruction in 1976. The shapefile was imported into a geodatabase by the USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis. 197901 200208 ground condition In work None planned Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site -103.435895 -103.416802 38.050456 38.027125 none boundary, area, perimeter, federal land none Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, BEOL, National Park Service, NPS, United States, US, USA, North America, Colorado, Otero County none The digital park unit boundary should not be used for any legal boundary disputes. It is intended solely for use only in identifying the general location of the national park unit. National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, GIS Program Theresa Ely GIS Coordinator physical address

12795 West Alameda Parkway

Lakewood Colorado 80225 USA 303-969-2653 303-969-2644 theresa_ely@nps.gov 8-4pm mst none National Park Service, Intermountain Support Office, Denver and Natural Resource Division of Bent's Old Fort Nat. Hist. Site Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) ; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.2.671 The fields and data in the arc attribute table were populated and varified by Intermountain Support Office GIS staff and represent the best knowledge about the origin of the boundary polyline. There was no verification of the accuracy of the attribute data associated with any of the features by Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site park staff. There are no duplicate features present. Topology does not exist in this file because it is a shapefile. This dataset is complete but possibly incorrect. The western extent north of the intersection of the park with HWY 194 does not align with the newly roughed in western boundary south of the highway. The BLM resurveyed the western boundary in 2000, but have not processed the data into a useful GIS dataset. Once the BLM data is available, the western boundary needs to be updated. The horizontal accuracy for most of the boundary is unknown. The western portion south of Highway 194 was headsup digitized to roughly match to the fence GPSed north of the Arkansas River. The remaining portion of the boundary dataset appears to overaly fairly well with other data in the same cooridnate system and extent. United States Geological Survey 19951013 imagery Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangle Hadley SE Unknown U. S. Geological Survey Hadley SE quarter quadrangle 12000 CD-ROM 19930725 acquisition date DOQQ Provided an image of area features for comparison to survey data. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Division of Land Acquisition 198411 map Original date on drawing is January, 1979 and represents seven revisions made to it ending in November of 1984. 7200 paper map 197901 198411 publication date survey1984 Fairly detailed drawing of the current legal boundary of the park. Used for verifying three quarters of the line features in this dataset. National Park Service, Water Resources Division 20010503 vector data Created and maintained by Dean Tucker of the Water Resources Division NPS GIS Clearinghouse at http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/ 24000 digital data file 20010503 publication date tucker2001 Supplied polylines for three quarters of the line features in this dataset. National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, GIS Program 20010716 vector digital data https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/Search 2 digital data file 200106 ground condition GPS2001fence provided location of the fence onscreen for heads up digitizing National Park Service, Bent's Old Fort NHS, Natural Resource Management 200205 vector digital data https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/Search 2 digital data file 200201 ground condition GPS2002river provided location of the riverbanks of the Arkansas river onscreen for heads up digitizing Downloaded the National Park System Boundary Dataset (tucker2001) and copied out the boundary for Bent's Old Fort NHS. Converted the dataset to an ArcInfo coverage and reprojected it to the current coordinate system. Visually compared the features of the boundary file with the hardcopy source for the boundary data. tucker2001 survey1984 200110 Converted the coverage back to a shapefile using ArcView 3.2. Edited the western arc south of Highway 194 to the southern extent of the park to roughly match the GPSed fence data along the western boundary of the park. Created two new lines connecting the rest of the older dataset with the new line. Verified positional accuracy by overlaying final dataset with the Hadley SE DOQQ. tucker2001 DOQQ GPS2001fence 200207 Jennifer McCollom National Park Service, Intermountain Support Office, GIS Program GIS Specialist mailing and physical address

12795 W. Alameda Parkway

Lakewood CO 80228 USA 303-987-6709 303-969-2644 ifer_mccollom@nps.gov 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MST, Monday through Friday none The new park boundary was "heads-up" digitized in ArcView 3.1 to the 2002 GPSed river. The new boundary line was digitized because of the flood in 1999 to the new flow of the Arkansas river. With this new flow, Bent's Old Fort NHS gained property. This corresponds to the legal description NE1/4, S1/2, Sec 14, T23S, R54W. Verified positional accuracy by overlaying final dataset with the Hadley SE DOQQ. GPS2002river and DOQQ 200207 National Park Service, Bent's Old Fort NHS, Natural Resource Management Seasonal Cartographic Aide mailing and physical address

402 Santa Fe Ave.

La Junta Colorado 81050 USA (719)-383-5016 (719)-383-2129 8AM to 5Pm MST, Monday through Friday none The Shapefile was imported into a geodatabase by the USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis. 201302 Metadata imported. 201302 0 Vector G-polygon 1 Universal Transverse Mercator 13 0.999600 -105.000000 0.000000 500000.000000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.000100 0.000100 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 BEOL_Park_Boundary Feature class attribute table ArcInfo software documenation OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Park_Code NPS Park Code NPS Park acronym name. Park_Name Name of the National Park unit. NPS Park name. Park_Type Type of unit boundary (i.e. Park, Preserve, Memorial, Monument...) NPS Textual boundary type. State 2-letter abbreviation of state in which park occurs (or mostly occurs if park spans more than one state) NPS State acronym name. Acres Area (unknown units) XTools Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Hectares Perimeter (unknown units) XTools Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Length Length of feature in internal units. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Shape_Area Area of feature in internal units squared. ESRI Positive real numbers that are automatically generated. Unknown The user-defined items and values are described in detail above. Contact ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.) for detailed explanations of their internal file structure at "http://www.esri.com". USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

Denver Colorado 80225 (303) 202-4220 303-202-4219 gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov Downloadable Data The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data and related graphics (if available) are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Any related graphics (if available) are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not approriate to use the related graphics as data. The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from an U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service servers and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this metadata report does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey and National Park Service. HTML http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/vip/parks/beol.html Internet Access None 20020816 20130222 USGS/CSS/Core Science Analytics and Synthesis USGS-NPS Vegetation Characterization Program Coordinator mailing and physical address

Denver Federal Center, Building 810, MS 302

Denver Colorado 80225 (303) 202-4220 303-202-4219 gs-b-npsveg@usgs.gov FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/metadata/index.html