This is a statewide polygon feature class of 100 year and 500 year flood zones as of 1986 for the unincorporated areas of Illinois as indicated on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (FIRM) maps and Flood Hazard Boundary maps.
The statewide data layer was created by appending data from 102 county-wide Arc/Info coverages originally released on Illinois DNR GIS data CDs dated 1996.
The data were digitized from paper maps. RMS values were not more than twenty feet in the original digitizing process. Mapscale: 1:6000 to 1:24,000.
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APPEND FLOODZONES POLY <list of 98 coverages> END
The coverage was then cleaned, dissolved, and converted to a shapefile:
CLEAN FLOODZONES FLOODZONES2 0.002 0.002 POLY DISSOLVE FLOODZONES2 FLOODZONES3 COLOR POLY (the item COLOR contained the floodzone designations) ARCSHAPE FLOODZONES2 POLY floodzones.shp
The shapefile was imported into a personal geodatabase as a standalone feature class. The polygon data for the remaining four counties (Clark, Franklin, Kankakee, and Lawrence, which had irregular PAT items and definitions) were imported into the feature class using the Load function of ArcCatalog.
The data were then reprojected to lon/lat NAD83 using the Project function of ArcToolbox:
Executing (Project_1): Project C:\floodzones.mdb\floodzone_py C:\floodzones.mdb\floodzone_py_Project GEOGCS['GCS_North_American_1983',DATUM['D_North_American_1983',SPHEROID['GRS_1980',6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM['Greenwich',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]] NAD_1927_To_NAD_1983_NADCON Start Time: Thu Aug 17 09:48:45 2006 Executed (Project_1) successfully. End Time: Thu Aug 17 10:11:07 2006 (Elapsed Time: 22 minutes 22 seconds)
The values in field FLOODZONE were changed. Originally 72 indicated 100-year flood zone and 70 indicated 500-year floodzone. These were changed to 100 and 500 respectively.
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