A prototype of the School District Reference Map series is available for Providence County, RI. These county-based reference maps show and label the unified, secondary, and elementary school districts as delineated by the state participants of the School District Review Program. These maps also show and label federal and state American Indian reservations, Alaska Native areas, Hawaiian home lands, states, counties, county subdivisions (in states where they function as governmental units), and places. Additionally, these maps display a base feature network including roads, railroads, and water bodies. The scale and map sheet configuration of the maps is optimized to keep the number of map sheets for each county to a minimum. The scale and number of sheets will vary by the size and shape of the county and the individual entities delineated by the state participants. For densely developed areas, inset map sheets may be created. The map sheet size is 36 by 32 inches.

Each map is accompanied by a School District to Map Sheet (SD2MS) relationship file. This semicolon delimited text file contains the code and name for each school district in the county, and lists map sheet numbers where each school district appears.

A catalog file including the file name, entity name, and total number of map sheets is available in the directory with the maps.