Spring Protection areas of Loudoun County, VA

Type  DXF

Tags  rock outcrops, gravel, streams, depression, pond, escarpments, lake, wet spot, stones, sink hole, marsh, gully, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, County, Loudoun, Virginia

Summary

The Spring Feature Protection was developed to support the Mountainside Overlay District (MOD) components of the zoning overlay district.

As a result of the adoption of the new Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance on Dec 13, 2023, two new feature protection were added to the Overlay District, Spring & Ridge Feature Protection, which are subject to the Uses and Development Standards of Section 5.04. 

Description

The Spring Feature Protection areas were created by selecting all springs, from the Loudoun County Soils data, that fall within the MOD and buffering them by 300'. These areas were then trimmed to only be within the MDOD to create the Spring Feature Protection Areas.

Data are stored in the corporate ArcSDE Geodatabase as a line feature class. The coordinate system is Virginia State Plane (North), Zone 4501, datum NAD83 HARN.

Credits

Loudoun County Office of Mapping and Geographic Information (OMAGI)

Use limitations

These data were generated for use by Loudoun County and are available to the public. These data are intended for use at 1:2400 scale or smaller. Acknowledgement of Loudoun County would be appreciated in products derived from this data.

Extent

Scale Range

Maximum (zoomed in)  1:2,400
Minimum (zoomed out)  1:20,000

Topics and Keywords 

Themes or categories of the resource Geoscientific, Inland Waters

Theme keywords rock outcrops, gravel, streams, depression, pond, escarpments, lake, wet spot, stones, sink hole, marsh, gully

Thesaurus 
Title none; Employee generated

Theme keywords geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters

Thesaurus 
Title ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Place keywords County, Loudoun, Virginia

Thesaurus 
Title none; Employee generated

Citation 

Title Spring Protection areas of Loudoun County, VA
Publication date 2012-09-28

Presentation formats digital map
FGDC geospatial presentation format vector digital data

Citation Contacts 

Responsible party - originator
Organization's name Loudoun County, Virginia, Department of Building and Development

Resource Details 

Status completed
Spatial representation type vector

Supplemental information
Data are stored in the corporate ArcSDE Geodatabase as a point feature class. The coordinate system is Virginia State Plane (North), Zone 4501, datum NAD83 HARN (vertical datum, if applicable, NAVD88), US Survey foot units.

Processing environment Esri ArcGIS 13.1.8.41833

Credits
Loudoun County Office of Mapping and Geographic Information (OMAGI)

ArcGIS item properties
Name SPRING_FEATURE_PROTECTION_POLY_SDE_EDIT

Extents 

Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
West longitude -77.945580
East longitude -77.567663
North latitude 39.314419
South latitude 39.011810
Extent contains the resource Yes

Extent in the item's coordinate system
westBL 11640449.824184
eastBL 11746726.603756
southBL 7052869.303529
northBL 7162232.937819
exTypeCode Yes

Resource Points of Contact 

Point of contact - point of contact
Organization's name Loudoun County, VA, Department of Building and Development
Contact's position County Soil Scientist

Contact information 
Phone
Voice (703)777-0520
Fax (703)771-5215
Address
Type both
Delivery point 1 Harrison Street SE, 2nd floor
Delivery point mail stop 60
City Leesburg
Administrative area VA
Postal code 20175
Country US
e-mail addressbad@loudoun.gov
Hours of service
8:00-5:00 EST, M-F

Resource Maintenance 

Resource maintenance
Update frequency as needed

Resource Constraints 

Constraints
Limitations of use

These data were generated for use by Loudoun County and are available to the public. These data are intended for use at 1:2400 scale or smaller. Acknowledgement of Loudoun County would be appreciated in products derived from this data.


Legal constraints
Limitations of use
See access and use constraints information.

Spatial Reference 

ArcGIS coordinate system
Type Projected
Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
Projection NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_Feet
Coordinate reference details
ProjectedCoordinateSystem
WKID 2924
XOrigin -110512500
YOrigin -88858000
XYScale 36916142.964165002
ZOrigin -100000
ZScale 10000
MOrigin -100000
MScale 10000
XYTolerance 0.0032808333333333331
ZTolerance 0.001
MTolerance 0.001
HighPrecision true
LatestWKID 2924
WKT PROJCS["NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Virginia_North_FIPS_4501_Feet",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983_HARN",DATUM["D_North_American_1983_HARN",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",11482916.66666666],PARAMETER["False_Northing",6561666.666666666],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-78.5],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",38.03333333333333],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",39.2],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",37.66666666666666],UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192],AUTHORITY["EPSG",2924]]

Spatial Data Properties 

Vector 
Geometric objects
Object type complex
Object count 0
Indirect spatial referencing
Loudoun County

Data Quality 

Scope of quality information 
Resource level dataset

Data quality report - Quantitative attribute accuracy 
Data quality measure reference
Measure description
Retention of attribute accuracy throughout the coverage to geodatabase feature class coversion process was ensured by a QA/QC programmatic check. To meet satisfactory QA/QC requirements the input coverage and output feature class must have, on a record by record basis, identical attribution when comparing all concatenated fields to all the user-defined attribution.

Data quality report - Conceptual consistency 
Data quality measure reference
Measure description
Topologically clean

Data quality report - Completeness omission 
Data quality measure reference
Measure description
Features may have been eliminated or generalized due to scale and intended use. To assist Loudoun County, Virginia in the maintenance of the data, please provide any information concerning discovered errors, omissions, or other discrepancies found in the data.

Data quality report - Absolute external positional accuracy 
dimension horizontal

Data quality measure reference
Measure description
Retention of coordinate accuracy throughout the coverage to geodatabase feature class conversion process was ensured by a QA/QC programmatic check. To meet satisfactory QA/QC requirements the input coverage and output feature class must have the same record total, and on a record by record basis, area, perimeter, and length differential of less than +/- 0.5%.

Lineage 

Process step 
Description
The Soil Survey of Loudoun County (field work) was conducted between 1947 and 1952 by soil scientists from Virginia Tech and the USDA Soil Conservation Service. Soils were originally shown on 1938 aerial photography at a scale of 4"= -1 mile; soils were later redrafted to a scale of 1" = 1666' (1:20000) for publication in the USDA's Soil Survey of Loudoun County, Virginia, Series 1951, Number 8, which was issued in September 1960. This publication is out of print, and the supply of copies for public distribution has been exhausted. A revision of the soil survey for Loudoun County has been completed. The manuscript is currently undergoing technical review and publication of the final document is anticipated during the 2006 calendar year.

Process contact - processor
Organization's name USDA

Process step 
Description
As part of the County's Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) mapping project, the soil survey maps were redrafted onto the County's base maps, at a scale of 1" = 200', then digitized. This information is available at the Office of Mapping and Geographic Information or through the County soil scientist in the Cooperative Extension Office . Although these updated soil maps rely heavily on the original soil survey, changes in both location of mapping unit lines and mapping unit descriptions/interpretations have occurred


Process contact - processor
Organization's name Loudoun County, VA, OMAGI

Source data 
Relationship to the process step used

Source citation 
Alternate titles withheld

Process step 
Description
This data set was part of a batch process that converted legacy data from ArcInfo coverage in Librarian to a single-tiled ArcInfo coverage in preparation for a final coversion to ArcSDE Geodatabase Feature Classes. Data were extracted from Librarian using the EXTRACT TOPOLOGICAL command. Multi-tiled data sets were extracted into multiple coverages and then combined based on the feature type(s). Layers with both polygon and arc feature classes were processed with the Arc commands, MAPJOIN and DISSOLVE. Arc feature classes alone were processed with the Arc commands, APPEND and DISSOLVE. Layers with both arc and point feature classes and point feature classes alone were processed with the Arc command, APPEND. When used, the Arc command, DISSOLVE, was given with the <#all> option. All coverages were then reprojected to HARN 83 using the following .prj file specifications: INPUT PROJECTION STATEPLANE UNITS FEET ZONE 5551 DATUM NAD27 NADCON PARAMETERS OUTPUT PROJECTION STATEPLANE UNITS FEET FIPSZONE 4501 DATUM HPGN NADCON PARAMETERS END This dataset was then converted to a feature class in a geodatabase in ArcSDE.


Process contact - processor
Organization's name Loudoun County, VA, OMAGI

Source data 
Relationship to the process step used

Source citation 
Alternate titles withheld

Process step 
Description
The soils map is continuously being updated based on field site inspections and therefore the soils map merely represents a point in time. Many new soil series concepts have been developed and the emphasis has changed from primarily agricultural use to include urban uses. This report is geared to mapping unit potential for general uses. Mapping unit potential ratings attempt to describe the broad range of conditions found in any given mapping unit for the noted uses. For more site-specific soil interpretations contact the County Soil Scientist in the Cooperative Extension Office.

Process contact - processor
Organization's name Loudoun County B&D
Contact's position Soil Scientist

Source data 
Description
revised soil survey for Loudoun County to emphasize general uses

Source medium name hardcopy—printing on paper
Resolution of the source data
Scale denominator 2400

Source citation 
Title Revised Soil Survey of Loudoun County, VA
Alternate titles Revised Soil Survey of Loudoun County, VA
Publication date 2006-01-01

Other citation details
currently under technical review


Responsible party - originator
Organization's name Loudoun County

Source data 
Description
originated soil mapping units and concepts for agricultural uses in Loudoun County

Source medium name hardcopy—printing on paper
Resolution of the source data
Scale denominator 20000

Source citation 
Title Soil Survey of Loudoun County, Virginia, Series 1951, No. 8
Alternate titles Soil Survey of Loudoun County, Virginia, Series 1951, No. 8
Publication date 1960-09-01

Other citation details
Out of print; copies for cross reference are availabe at the Library, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Loudoun Dept. of Building and Development and the Loudoun Cooperative Extension Office


Responsible party - originator
Organization's name U.S. Department of Agriculture

Distribution 

Distributor 
Contact information - distributor
Organization's name Loudoun County, VA, OMAGI
Contact's position Public Information Counter

Contact information 
Phone
Voice (703)771-5778
Fax (703)771-5075
Address
Type both
Delivery point MS 65
Delivery point 1 Harrison Street S.E., 2nd floor
City Leesburg
Administrative area VA
Postal code 20175
Country US
e-mail addressmapping@loudoun.gov
Hours of service
8:00-4:30 EST, M-F

Available format
Name DXF
Specification AutoCad Digital Exchange File

Ordering process
Terms and fees Loudoun County distributes spatial data in ArcGIS database or shapefile & DXF format for the cost of reproduction. Countywide spatial datasets may be purchased for $22 per DVD for up to 4.5 GB of data. There is a $100 surcharge to purchase countywide topography, and a $3 charge if the item is to be mailed. If the customer wants the data in DXF format and/or would like OMAGI to custom select specific geographic areas of the County, there is an additional $7 per 15 minute increment labor charge. Select aerial imagery is also available.

Instructions
Size limit: 4.5 GB. Visit our website at: http://www.loudoun.gov/omagi, click on "Loudoun County Mapping Documents & Order Forms." The "Forms" directory will lead you to custom & standard (countywide) data order forms. Hardcopy maps may also be available; please contact the Mapping Office Public Information Counter for more information regarding all data requests.

Transfer options
Medium of distribution
Medium name DVD

Fields 

Details for object SPRING_FEATURE_PROTECTION_POLY_SDE_EDIT 
Field OBJECTID 
Field description
Internal feature number.

Description source
Esri

Description of values
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Field SHAPE 
Field description
Feature geometry.

Description source
ESRI

Description of values
Coordinates defining the features.

Field SP_UPD_SOURCE 

Field SP_TYPE 

Field SP_UPD_DATE 

Field SP_UPD_USER 

Field Shape_Length 
Field description
Length of feature in internal units.

Description source
Esri

Description of values
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Field Shape_Area 
Field description
Area of feature in internal units squared.

Description source
Esri

Description of values
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Metadata Details 

Metadata character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format

Scope of the data described by the metadata dataset

Last update 2025-12-12 

ArcGIS metadata properties
Metadata format ArcGIS 1.0
Metadata style North American Profile of ISO19115 2003
Standard or profile used to edit metadata FGDC

Created in ArcGIS for the item 2023-12-21 07:49:39
Last modified in ArcGIS for the item 2025-12-12 15:28:54

Automatic updates
Have been performed Yes
Last update 2025-12-12 11:40:08

Metadata Contacts 

Metadata contact - point of contact
Organization's name Loudoun County, VA, OMAGI
Contact's position Metadata Specialist

Contact information 
Phone
Voice (703)771-5778
Fax (703)771-5075
Address
Type both
Delivery point MS 65
Delivery point 1 Harrison Street SE, 2nd Floor
City Leesburg
Administrative area VA
Postal code 20175
Country US
e-mail addressmapping@loudoun.gov
Hours of service
8:00-4:30 EST, M-F

Metadata Constraints 

Constraints
Limitations of use
This metadata reflects the source Geodatabase format and specific elements may not apply if your data is exported to SHP or DXF products. User must be aware that changes to data schema occur during data export that may not be reflected in this metadata, which represents Loudoun County's corporate geodatabase. Acknowledgement of Loudoun County would be appreciated in the use of this metadata.