Municipal boundaries within Hillsborough County Florida

A modified version of the Tampa City Limits to follow the shoreline.

Municipal boundaries for all incorporated areas of Hillsborough County - Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City.

Tampa City Council District boundaries.Data updated as needed.Data refreshed every 24 hours.

A modified version of the Tampa City Limits to follow the shoreline.

City of Tampa local atlas section boundaries for all land areas in Hillsborough County. Follows the PLSS section boundaries.No data update planned.

This polygon feature class dataset contains geographic boundaries for the cities within Hillsborough County. The City boundaries is governed by ordinance and is only changed accordingly. Hillsborough County obtains the information of annexation ordinance, along with the legal description of property and a general area map from Cities (City of Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City) for the extended boundaries of its City Limit. These information are drawn using ArcMap to update existing boundaries for Cities. The boundaries are updated as needed basis when errors are found or when city annexation of a parcel of unincorporated county area have completed.

Zoning Districts within the Tampa City Limits.Data updated as needed.Data refreshed every 24 hours.

Boundary for the City of Tampa Sewer Service Area.No data update planned.Data refreshed every 24 hours.

Tree Canopy is the mass of leaves, branches and stems of trees that cover the ground when viewed from above. In addition to the sample-based field inventory used to estimate urban forest composition, structure, health and associated functional benefits, remote sensing techniques were used to measure 2016 tree canopy cover within the City of Tampa.Tree canopy mapping provides information about the distribution of tree cover, as well as grass/shrub and other land coverage within the City of Tampa. Tree canopy mapping for 2016 was conducted using advanced object-based image analysis techniques in collaboration with Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne from the University of Vermont (O’Neil-Dunne et al. 2014). Object-based methods have been shown to be more accurate for mapping tree cover in the Tampa area than other land cover classification methods. The tree canopy map was based on six-inch resolution (i.e. imagery capturing objects as small as 6 inches), multi-spectral (blue, green, red, near-infrared) aerial imagery from early spring 2016 obtained from the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser. Aerial LiDAR (LASER rangefinding) data from the Southwest Florida Water Management District was converted to relative height above ground and used to differentiate between trees and grass or buildings and other impervious surfaces. These data sources, as well as ancillary data like road centerlines and water/wetland boundaries were used as part of a set of land cover classification rules. Extensive manual corrections were then made of the initial maps by visual examination of all sections of the study area. The final map included six land cover classes: tree canopy (>8 ft tall); grass/shrub (<8 ft tall); buildings; other impervious surfaces (e.g., roads, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots); bare earth; and water. Accuracy of the tree canopy cover dataset was assessed by visually comparing the classified land cover at 4,199 randomly distributed points. Overall accuracy of the final tree canopy cover was 92.2%. Tree canopy and other land cover classes were summarized for different geographic areas of the City using geographic information systems data acquired with the assistance of staff from City of Tampa Planning & Development. Boundary layers for tree cover and change summaries included: Zoning categories, Future Land Use categories, Neighborhood Associations, and i-Tree land use classifications.

This feature class contains polygons of properties that have been acquired through Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP). This data was created by combining and tracing polygons from the parcels as described in acquired documents or legal descriptions for use in GIS systems for a variety of planning and mapping purposes. Data is updated by applying new acquired documents or legal descriptions that change the ELAPP boundaries. ELAPP is voluntary, not a regulatory program established for the purpose of providing the process and funding or identifying, acquiring, preserving and protecting endangered, environmentally- sensitive and significant lands in Hillsborough County. It is a citizen- based program with volunteer committees involved in every key aspect of the program. The program has allowed Hillsborough County to preserve more than 61,000 acres of environmentally sensitive wildlife habitat and corridors since 1987. Approximately one third of the lands have been acquired in partnership with other local, state and federal agencies including the Cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City; The Department of Environmental Protection/Florida Communities Trust Program: and the Southwest Florida Water Management District.