Find Dams in the US Army Core National Inventory (NID)

Source: R/findNID.R

findNID returns a SpatialPointsDataFrame of all US Army Corps Dams for an Area of Interest from the National Inventory of Dams dataset. The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a congressionally authorized database documenting dams in the United States and its territories This dataset is accessed through the dams R package and contains 61 attributes, perhaps most notably:

  • 'Dam_Name' : character Dam Name

  • 'NID_ID' : character Unique ID for the dam

  • 'River': character Name of the river

  • 'Owner_Type' : character Type of Owner

  • 'Dam_Type' : character Type of Dam

  • 'Primary_Purpose' : numeric Primary Purpose served

  • 'Dam_Length' : numeric Length of the dam

  • 'Dam_Height' : numeric Height of the dam

  • 'Max_Discharge' : numeric Maximum Discharge

  • 'Max_Storage': character Maximum Storage

  • 'Normal_Storage': character Normal Storage


findNID(AOI = NULL, ids = FALSE)

Arguments

AOI

A Spatial* or simple features geometry, can be piped from getAOI
ids

If TRUE, a vector of Dam IDs is added to retuned list (default = FALSE)

Value

a list() of minimum length 2: AOI and dams

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Find all dams in Texas
tx.dams = getAOI(state = "TX") %>% findNID()
# }