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Depicts Washington counties similar to WASHCO except for counties abutting Puget Sound.

In these areas the current version of WTRBDY is used to depict the natural shoreline, rather than the political boundary.

County boundaries for Washington state, with Puget Sound removed, showing coastal shoreline.

Also as KINGSH for King County only.

Layer Name	washsh_area
Subject Category	Political Boundaries
Title	Washington Counties with Natural Shoreline
Feature Count	39
Feature Type	Polygon
Next Update	As needed
Spatial reference	EPSG:2926
Control ID	122
Place Keywords	WA, Washington State, Pacific NW, King County
Theme Keywords	Boundaries, Politicl, Political, State, Waterbody, Shoreline, County Boundaries
Supplemental Information	None

COUNTY From TIGER files	Description Name of Washington state county Domain All uppercase text
OBJECTID From ESRI	Description Internal feature number. Domain Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
CREATIONDATE From King County	Description Date and local time feature was created. Domain Date and local time
EDITDATE From King County	Description Date and local time feature was edited. Domain Date and local time
COUNTYLABEL From King County	Description County name as mixed case Domain Title format, i.e., Pierce
SHAPE From ESRI	Description Feature geometry. Domain Coordinates defining the features.
SHAPE.STArea() No Source Noted	Description Not Found Domain Not Found
SHAPE.STLength() No Source Noted	Description Not Found Domain Not Found

Maintained by	KCGIS Center
Primary	KCGIS Center giscenter@kingcounty.gov

License	Terms of use and copyright

Links How to use in ArcGIS Pro
Sharing Status	Public

Depicts Washington counties similar to WASHCO except for counties abutting Puget Sound.

In these areas the current version of WTRBDY is used to depict the natural shoreline, rather than the political boundary.

County boundaries for Washington state, with Puget Sound removed, showing coastal shoreline.

Also as KINGSH for King County only.

Maintained by	KCGIS Center
Primary	KCGIS Center giscenter@kingcounty.gov

License	Terms of use and copyright

2/15/2012	Edge of water for Kitsap County updated in WTRBDY_AREA which was used to clip WASHCO to produce updated version of WASHSH
5/1/2011	Updated major lake boundaries with 2010 ortho imagery. Regenerated WASH_SH.
5/1/2009	Generation of this layer was linked to updates to WTRBDY_AREA. Whenever major review/update is performed on WTRBDY, the adjusted extent of Puget Sound is used to regenerate this layer from the WASHCO_AREA source.
1/1/1990	Derived from 1990 Census TIGER data at 1:100000 scale