Spatial Join - An ArcGIS Pro tutorial

How to use the Spatial Join geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS Pro by Esri. Example data used is from the Hurricane Tracks by USA County video posted a few days earlier than this video. This video is targeted towards GIS students. All parameters of the Spatial Join tool are explained and outputs examined. The common question of source vs target feature layer is addressed in detail by showing how results change when the feature layers are switched around.
Keywords: Geography Viz, ArcGIS Pro, Spatial Join Tutorial, Hurricane Tracks, USA Counties
Methodology (main steps):
Not walked through in video
Start ArcGIS Pro (ver. 3.0 used) - Map
Map tab - Basemap - Light Gray Base
Catalog pane - Portals - Living Atlas -
search for "Historical Hurricanes Tracks 1842-2021" - add to current map
Catalog pane - Portals - Living Atlas -
search for "USA Census Counties" - add to current map
Tools tab - Gallery - Dissolve -
IBTrACS_ALL_list_v04r00_lines, ...\Tracks, SID, "USA_WIND MAX;year FIRST",
SINGLE_PART, DISSOLVE_LINES
Walked through in video
Tools tab - Gallery - Spatial Join -
Counties, Tracks, ...\Counties_SJ, JOIN_ONE_TO_ONE, KEEP_COMMON,
INTERSECT, None
Tools tab - Gallery - Spatial Join -
Tracks, Counties, ...\Tracks_SJ", JOIN_ONE_TO_ONE, KEEP_COMMON,
INTERSECT, None
Data sources:
USA 2020 Census County/Parish boundaries of the United States from Esri:
www.arcgis.com/home/item.html...
Hurricane track feature layer from Federal_User_CommunityTrack using data from the NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information IBTrACS data sets: www.arcgis.com/home/item.html...
Esri Light Gray Base basemap

[@thomlock5609]

Thank you for this video!! I accidentally came across this. I got into the developer program for Google Earth but the forum I ended up in was not helpful. This is great!

[@yra3103]

Thank you so much for making this video. It really helped me understand spatial joins better. However, it appears that there was a new update that completely changed the way the field map view looks. I am having trouble finding where merge rule went. Could you please make a video showing how to use the spatial join tool after the changes they’ve made on it?

[@booksrule0240]

Thank you so much for making this video. Huge help

[@cjo3443]

This is an excellent video, thank you sir! Much better explanation of how this tool works than what I was provided with by the Coursera GIS cert lol.

[@geogviz]

Glad it was helpful!

[@catherineh8606]

Thank you! very well explained and executed!

[@devinthompson6553]

He's the Bob Ross of geographic data science