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Digital data set of orchards where arsenical pesticides were likely used in Clark and Frederick Counties, Virginia, and Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, West Virginia

Bradley W. Reed·Peter Larkins·Gilpin R. Robinson
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This Fact Sheet provides information on a digital data set that identifies orchard areas under cultivation between the 1920s and 1960s in Clarke and Frederick Counties, Virginia and Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, West Virginia. The apple orchards in these areas likely used arsenical pesticides during this time. The digital data set can be used in a geographic information system (GIS) to identify where elevated arsenic and lead concentrations may be present in soils. The digital data set, the associated metadata, and the related files are available on the World Wide Web at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1330/shapefile/.

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90° N90° S · 180° W ← longitude → 180° E
Source-reported bounding extent: 38.9819° to 39.6241° latitude; -78.5422° to -77.7197° longitude. This indicates report coverage, not an exact sampling location. View area on OpenStreetMap.

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Bradley W. Reed, Peter Larkins, Gilpin R. Robinson. 2006. Digital data set of orchards where arsenical pesticides were likely used in Clark and Frederick Counties, Virginia, and Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, West Virginia. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20063134

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