Map Counties Surrounding ORR Land Use Settings SAMAB 90m 1992

This raster map depicts outdoor settings (closely related to human land-use) for the counties surrounding the Oak Ridge Reservation (Anderson, Blount, Loudon, Knox, Monroe, and Roane). This data layer is a 90 meter grid subset of the setting map created as part of the SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Program) SAA (Southern Appalachian Assessment). It identifies portions of the region which were coded as one of the several Settings by the team that assessed outdoor recreation settings. The data set was created by combining maps of land cover, roads, utility corridors, and protected areas such as Wilderness and National Parks. The land cover map was converted to a map of existing land use categories such as 'forested' and 'sub-urban'. Information about roads, utility corridors, and protected areas was then used to refine these themes into composite setting descriptors. The areas of different setting descriptors were compiled by ecological sections and were compared to existing maps of management designations and recreational features. All of the maps used in this study were part of a standard geographic
database which was prepared for the Southern Appalachian Assessment. counties.

A map depicting human land use can be created by aggregating the preceding classes into rural, urban, sub-urban, and transitional.

Setting legend categories include the following:
1 Rural - pastoral/agricultural
2 Rural - partially forested
3 Semi-primitive - natural appearing
4 Roaded - natural appearing
5 Rural - forested
6 Transitional
7 Sub-urban
8 Urban
9 Water
10 Unknown
11 Primitive - naturally evolving
12 Semi-primitive - naturally evolving
13 Roaded - naturally evolving