Hi Aimee,

Library of Congress has a series of gifs that identify different regions in the US used in the G schedule of the LC Classification system. No. 4 identifies the Pacific Northwest.

• Electronic resource: United States: No. 1
• Electronic resource: United States: No. 2
• Electronic resource: United States: No. 3
• Electronic resource: United States: No. 4
• Electronic resource: United States: No. 5

Cheri

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:00 PM, MAPS-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Date:    Mon, 9 Apr 2018 18:36:44 +0000
From:    Aimee Quinn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: states which compose the Pacific Northwest

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
https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/

USGS
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming
https://www.usgs.gov/science/regions/northwest?qt-regions_l2_landing_page_tabs=0#qt-regions_l2_landing_page_tabs


Your advice is greatly appreciated with many thanks,
Aimée


Aimée C. Quinn
Assistant Professor | Government Publications Librarian
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Central Washington University
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