Hello folks,
I’ve been
asked to come up with collection scope including a specified geographic limit for
our map collection perhaps just to the
Pacific Northwest, however, the U.S. government does not appear to have a consistently defined geographic area
for the Pacific Northwest. So I thought I would turn to my colleagues to see how you define this region of
the United States. Below are a sample of different geographic definitions currently in place by the federal government.
Census Bureau
Division 9: Pacific
Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/maps/reg_div.txt
Bureau of Reclamation
Columbia River Basin in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming
https://www.usbr.gov/pn/index.html
USDA, Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Region
States of Oregon and Washington, Including Portions of Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties in California, and Portions of Nez Perce, Salmon, Idaho, and Adams Counties in Idaho
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3812803.pdf
USA.gov
Oregon & Washington
USGS
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming
Your advice is greatly appreciated with many thanks,
Aimée
Aimée C. Quinn
Assistant Professor |
Government Publications Librarian
James E. Brooks Library, Depository 0649-A
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926
509-963-1592
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