This geodatabase contains layers pertaining to the Public Land Survey. It included a pre-settlement landcover polygon shapefile (KankLandcover.shp) for the area of interest in Indiana: Elkhart, Newton, Jasper, Starke, Marshall, and the north and central portion of Kosciusko, and northwest portion of Benton County, Lake, Porter, LaPorte, and St. Joseph Counties as well as the area of interest in Illinois: Will, Kankakee, and Iroquois Counties along with townships within surrounding counties (Grundy, Ford, Vermillion) within the Kankakee watershed . This database also includes a hydrologic features shapefile (hydrologic) of digitized water features including rivers and streams, drains, rapids, springs, runs, etc. It should be noted that rivers, marshes and included as part of the landcover shapefile as these cover large portions of the landscape and could not be adequately represented as polylines. Finally there are several pre-settlement land feature shapefile(s) for trails, homesteads, camps, mills, roads, Indian settlements and mounds, and other land features noted on the PLSS notes.