About this Dataset

Yates Oyster Bars

This dataset represents the results of the six years' work of the Maryland Oyster Survey, authorized by Congress and begun in 1906.Three separate government bureaus and one State commission participated in the Maryland Oyster Survey - the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Maryland Shellfish Commission. Authoritative Maryland Yates Bars only, not to be confused with the Maryland Historical Bottoms Dataset which include the Yates Bars plus other boundary layers that were conflated in a set spatial geoprocessing method. Yates Bars boundaries have been digitized from Charts and Surveys with only projection related geospatial processes no other applied methods.
Organization: State of Maryland
Last updated: 2025-07-26T20:07:39.763747

Tables

Table 1

@usgov.state_of_maryland_yates_oyster_bars.table_1

181.76 kB
769 rows
10 columns


CREATE TABLE table_1 (
  "the_geom" VARCHAR,
  "gis_object_id" BIGINT,
  "yatesname" VARCHAR,
  "numcorns" BIGINT,
  "refcode" VARCHAR,
  "county" VARCHAR,
  "acres" BIGINT,
  "newarea" DOUBLE,
  "gis_shape_area_m" DOUBLE,
  "gis_shape_length_m" DOUBLE
);