BPDA Neighborhoods are a combination of zoning neighborhood boundaries, zip code boundaries and 2010 census tract boundaries. These boundaries are used in the broad sense for visualization purposes, research analysis and planning studies. However these boundaries are not official neighborhood boundaries for the City of Boston. The BPDA is not responsible for any districts or boundaries within the City of Boston except for the districts we use for planning purposes.

These ESRI shape files are of National Park Service tract and boundary data that was created by the Land Resources Division. Bounds of the tracts and islands are photo interpreted from 1996 ortho photo mosaics created by the University of Rhode Island for the park. Tracts and islands are consistent with the legislated boundaries defined by PL 104-333 which also references map number BOHA 80,002. Tracts are numbered and created by the regional cartographic staff at the Land Resources Program Centers and are associated to the Land Status Maps. This data should be used to display properties that NPS owns and properties that NPS may have some type of interest such as scenic easements or right of ways.

View and Download PDF Maps from Map Library School Districts and Buffer Zones (11 X 17)School Districts and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Individual School MapBaker School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Baker School District and Buffer Zones (8.5X 11)Devotion School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Devotion School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Driscoll School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Driscoll School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Health School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Health School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Lawrence School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Lawrence School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Lincoln School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Lincoln School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Pierce School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Pierce School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)Runkle School District and Buffer Zones (22 X 34)Runkle School District and Buffer Zones (8.5 X 11)SCHOOL DISTRICTS: This data layer is created by Brookline GIS based upon the street centerline layer developed by Boston Edison and the hard copy school district map provided by the school department.SCHOOL BUFFER ZONES: This data layer is created by Brookline GIS based upon the parcel boundaries and the address list from the school department. Updated on 06/14/2001, 08/27/2002 and 06/16/2004 according to changes made by the School Committee

City of Boston Public Works Department (PWD) districts as of August 2015.

The 1:100,000-scale geologic map of the South Boston 30' x 60' quadrangle, Virginia and North Carolina, provides geologic information for the Piedmont along the I-85 and U.S. Route 58 corridors and in the Roanoke River watershed, which includes the John H. Kerr Reservoir and Lake Gaston. The Raleigh terrane (located on the eastern side of the map) contains Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic(?) polydeformed, amphibolite-facies gneisses and schists. The Carolina slate belt of the Carolina terrane (located in the central part of the map) contains Neoproterozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks at greenschist facies. Although locally complicated, the slate-belt structure mapped across the South Boston map area is generally a broad, complex anticlinorium of the Hyco Formation (here called the Chase City anticlinorium) and is flanked to the west and east by synclinoria, which are cored by the overlying Aaron and Virgilina Formations. The western flank of the Carolina terrane (located in the western-central part of the map) contains similar rocks at higher metamorphic grade. This terrane includes epidote-amphibolite-facies to amphibolite-facies gneisses of the Neoproterozoic Country Line complex, which extends north-northeastward across the map. The Milton terrane (located on the western side of the map) contains Ordovician amphibolite-facies metavolcanic and metasedimentary gneisses of the Cunningham complex. Crosscutting relations and fabrics in mafic to felsic plutonic rocks constrain the timing of Neoproterozoic to late Paleozoic deformations across the Piedmont. In the eastern part of the map, a 5- to 9-kilometer-wide band of tectonic elements that contains two late Paleozoic mylonite zones (Nutbush Creek and Lake Gordon) and syntectonic granite (Buggs Island pluton) separates the Raleigh and Carolina terranes. Amphibolite-facies, infrastructural metaigneous and metasedimentary rocks east of the Lake Gordon mylonite zone are generally assigned to the Raleigh terrane. In the western part of the map area, a 5- to 8-kilometer-wide band of late Paleozoic tectonic elements includes the Hyco and Clover shear zones, syntectonic granitic sheets, and amphibolite-facies gneisses along the western margin of the Carolina terrane at its boundary with the Milton terrane. This band of tectonic elements is also the locus for early Mesozoic extensional faults associated with the early Mesozoic Scottsburg, Randolph, and Roanoke Creek rift basins. The map shows fluvial terrace deposits of sand and gravel on hills and slopes near the Roanoke and Dan Rivers. The terrace deposits that are highest in altitude are the oldest. Saprolite regolith is spatially associated with geologic source units and is not shown separately on the map. Mineral resources in the area include gneiss and granite quarried for crushed stone, tungsten-bearing vein deposits of the Hamme district, and copper and gold deposits of the Virgilina district. Surface-water resources are abundant and include rivers, tributaries, the John H. Kerr Reservoir, and Lake Gaston. Groundwater flow is concentrated in saprolite regolith, along fractures in the crystalline bedrock, and along fractures and bedding-plane partings in the Mesozoic rift basins.

City Council Districts were approved by the City Council, signed by the Mayor and took effect January 1, 2014. Districts were updated September 2016 based on the updates made to wards and precincts by the City of Boston Election department.

City of Boston boundary that excludes water.

Authoritative police districts dataset for the City of Boston.

Ward boundaries that overlay with the new revised Precincts. July 2022.

The City of Boston adopted a Groundwater Conservation Overlay District (GCOD), zoning Article 32, in sections of the City to protect wood pile foundations of buildings from being damaged by lowered groundwater levels. For more information, visit Zoning Code Article 32 | Boston Groundwater Trust | Boston Water and Sewer Commission

Neighborhood boundaries are created based on zip code, zoning district boundaries and census tract boundaries. This GIS data layer was produced by the BRA Office of Digital Cartography and GIS. These boundaries should not be considered official neighborhood boundaries for the City of Boston. The locations of features and boundaries shown on this map are approximate and are intended for planning and visualization purposes only. This is not intended for survey, engineering, or legal purposes.

Boston Fire Department (BFD) district boundaries per general order of the fire department. New districts went into effect on 8/3/2011. This data was last updated on 9/22/2015 by BFD personnel. Boundaries are coincident with the Street Address Management (SAM) conflated street centerline data. Purpose was for use in new CAD system provided by Intergraph. Boundaries of districts created using newest version of city boundary provided by 2010 Census data.

description: This data set contains the sea floor topographic contours, sun-illuminated topographic imagery, and backscatter intensity generated from a multibeam sonar survey of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 square nautical miles. The Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project is designed to provide detailed maps of the Stellwagen Bank region's environments and habitats and the first complete multibeam topographic and sea floor characterization maps of a significant region of the shallow EEZ. Data were collected on four cruises over a two year period from the fall of 1994 to the fall of 1996. The surveys were conducted aboard the Candian Hydrographic Service vessel Frederick G. Creed, a SWATH (Small Waterplane Twin Hull) ship that surveys at speeds of 16 knots. The multibeam data were collected utilizing a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder (95 kHz) that is permanently installed in the hull of the Creed.; abstract: This data set contains the sea floor topographic contours, sun-illuminated topographic imagery, and backscatter intensity generated from a multibeam sonar survey of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 square nautical miles. The Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project is designed to provide detailed maps of the Stellwagen Bank region's environments and habitats and the first complete multibeam topographic and sea floor characterization maps of a significant region of the shallow EEZ. Data were collected on four cruises over a two year period from the fall of 1994 to the fall of 1996. The surveys were conducted aboard the Candian Hydrographic Service vessel Frederick G. Creed, a SWATH (Small Waterplane Twin Hull) ship that surveys at speeds of 16 knots. The multibeam data were collected utilizing a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder (95 kHz) that is permanently installed in the hull of the Creed.

Boston MA city boundary including water features.

January 2023

This map displays data from chapters 1 through 4 of the PLAN South Boston Dorchester Avenue report, which contains the history, current conditions, outreach initiatives, goals, and objectives of a proposed plan to create a new mixed-use urban district in Boston, Massachusetts. The map contains four layers:Study AreaFuture DevelopmentsParcelsZoningThis map is intended for use in the Storify a planning report tutorial, which details the process of creating a story in ArcGIS StoryMaps for the plan. The story includes maps and a scene that showcase the proposed district. The plan itself was created by the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA).

Boston Transportation Department (BTD) districts.

City Council Districts, November 2022. Docket 1275 Committee Report. Created by DoIT GIS

This polygon data layer contains the six Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Highway Districts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The districts supervise all construction within its jurisdiction; performs on-site engineering; implements maintenance and preventative maintenance programs; generates proposals for maintenance and construction work; and provides engineering support to cities and towns.ProductionThe bounds of the MassDOT Highway Districts were digitized from the MassGIS survey-level town boundaries. In addition to the polygon layer, there is an arc layer following the same line work as the polygon included in the downloadable shape file.MetadataStatusThis data is current as of September 2013.