Description: Federal Emergency Management Agency Floodplain for Deschutes County, Oregon. Updated by FEMA nationwide in 2007, the FIRM is the basis for floodplain management, mitigation, and insurance activities for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Insurance applications include enforcement of the mandatory purchase requirement of the Flood Disaster Protection Act, which "requires the purchase of flood insurance by property owners who are being assisted by Federal programs or by Federally supervised, regulated, or insured agencies or institutions in the acquisition or improvement of land facilities located or to be located in identified areas having special flood hazards" (Section 2 (b) (4) of the 1973 Flood Disaster Protection Act). In addition to the identification of Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the risk zones shown on the FIRMs are the basis for the establishment of premium rates for flood insurance coverage offered through the NFIP. Q3 Flood Data files convey certain key features from the existing hard copy FIRM. Edge-matching errors, overlaps and deficiencies in coverage, and similar problems are not corrected during digitizing or post-processing. The Q3 Flood Data files are intended to provide users with automated flood risk data that may be used to locate SFHAs. More detailed information may be obtained from the paper FIRM.
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Name: Wetland - National and Local Wetland Inventory
Display Field: WETLAND_TYPE
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This wetlands feature class contains records of wetlands area location and classification as defined by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Deschutes County, Oregon.
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Description: This feature class contains watersheds in Deschutes County, Oregon. The land area that drains water to a particular stream, river, or lake. It is a land feature that can be identified by tracing a line along the highest elevations between two areas on a map, often a ridge. Large watersheds, like the Columbia River Basin, contain hundreds of smaller watersheds.
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