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    Floodplain Base Flood Elevations

    Metadata Updated: April 16, 2025

    Location and attributes for Base Flood Elevations lines shown on FIRM. The elevation of surface water resulting from a flood that has a 1% chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year. The BFE is shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for zones AE, AH, A1–A30, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/A1– A30, AR/AH, AR/AO, V1–V30 and VE.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 16, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 16, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=abbccdba911a4610a60aab68a2a77328&sublayer=5
    Data First Published 2015-02-27T20:55:37.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 9193c8b6-a3cd-41e9-be98-a8a850a7ce17
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::floodplain-base-flood-elevations
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1197,38.7990,-76.9116,38.9948
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 67e163397fa020fea0be5198a46df46e5960559bc48d9e4db2f077c7548c05e0
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1197, 38.7990, -77.1197, 38.9948, -76.9116, 38.9948, -76.9116, 38.7990, -77.1197, 38.7990}

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