NOAA_NCEI provides the second volume of a three-part study on the Delaware Bay tideland region from November 1972. The report traces the development of legal precedents for property possession and use, and examines existing and proposed ownership and land use patterns. It focuses on the tidelands from Lewes, Delaware, to the borders of Kent, New Castle, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties.
Use Cases
- Analyze the development of legal precedents for property possession and use along the Bay as described in the report's narrative.
- Examine the relationship between historical land use patterns and existing or proposed ownership structures documented in the study.
- Map the defined study area of tidelands from Lewes to specific county borders using the geographic descriptions provided.
- Compare the legal and land use analysis in this volume with the historical context from Part I and the zoning laws from Part III of the series.
Strengths
- Report is part of a structured three-part study providing specific context (Volume 2 of 3).
- Geographic scope is precisely defined, covering tidelands across specific counties in Delaware and New Jersey.
Limitations
- Data is a single textual report from 1972, with no row-based or structured tabular data for quantitative analysis.
- The information is historically valuable but temporally stale, reflecting legal and land use patterns from over 50 years ago.
- Sample data and specific data columns are unavailable, limiting machine-readability and direct computational use.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information).
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
- Report published November 1972; historical legal analysis covers precedents up to that date.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Tidelands of lower Delaware Bay, from Lewes, Delaware, north to the border of Kent and New Castle Counties (DE) and Cape May and Cumberland Counties (NJ).