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I have a two shapefiles. One of neighborhoods and one of points. The point file was originally a spreadsheet of X,Y coordinates. but have been exported to shapefile. They display but not over the neighborhood shapefile like they should. I've tried reprojecting, project tool and define projection. It still will not overlap. Everything is displaying in US (Feet). What is wrong? Using arcmap 10.4

Here are the projection data in the Layer source:

Point file: Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Pennsylvania_South_FIPS_3702_Feet Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 1968500.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -77.75000000 Standard_Parallel_1: 39.93333333 Standard_Parallel_2: 40.96666667 Latitude_Of_Origin: 39.33333333 Linear Unit: Foot_US

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: Greenwich Angular Unit: Degree

Neighborhood file: Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Pennsylvania_South_FIPS_3702_Feet Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 1968500.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -77.75000000 Standard_Parallel_1: 39.93333333 Standard_Parallel_2: 40.96666667 Latitude_Of_Origin: 39.33333333 Linear Unit: Foot_US

Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: Greenwich Angular Unit: Degree

Here's a sample of the Lat Long Coordinates:

Lat1 Long1
39.93128729 -75.14691545
39.93130836 -75.14711798
39.93143481 -75.14845446
39.93144498 -75.14853968
39.93117173 -75.14714819
39.93099668 -75.14705857
39.9310071 -75.14715449
39.93101477 -75.14725051
39.93119391 -75.14848865

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  • Do you know what coordinate systems your XY table and your neighborhood file were in before you started? All those projection tools are worthless unless you know what coordinate system your data was in to start with. – Dan C Dec 28 '16 at 21:17
  • @DanC positive that the neighborhood file was exactly what I listed it to be. The point file was originally a csv that I did display csv on. Let me know how else I can provide information to figure this out. – StargazingFish Dec 28 '16 at 22:04
  • can you add a few X,Y values from the Point csv? to verify it is Stateplane? – klewis Dec 28 '16 at 22:36
  • @klewis added the lat long coordinates. Couldn't figure out how to make the column heading matched :/ – StargazingFish Dec 29 '16 at 00:17
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    You need to define the point shapefile as NAD 1983, EPSG:4269 because the coordinates are in decimal degrees. THEN you can use the Project Tool to convert the coordinates to the SPCS zone. – mkennedy Dec 29 '16 at 00:26
  • @mkennedy I searched for "SPCS zone" in the "Project Data Management" tool wizard but didn't find it. nothing came up. – StargazingFish Dec 29 '16 at 01:10
  • Sorry! Look under state plane, NAD 1983 (US feet) for Pennsylvania South. SPCS is state plane coordinate system. – mkennedy Dec 29 '16 at 01:18
  • @mkennedy Can you possibly explain how you arrived at that response?Thanks again! – StargazingFish Dec 29 '16 at 04:20
  • I'm not writing an answer, because there are other Q&A on site about this (too lazy to search for them). If two layers don't line up, often one has an undefined or misdefined coordinate reference system. I look at the coordinates. Small values like yours are decimal degrees, so couldn't be in a projected CRS. – mkennedy Dec 29 '16 at 20:32

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