The municipalities data set (also known as civil divisions) delineates the incorporated cities, villages, and towns in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. A variety of sources at several different scales and dates were used to map the boundaries including legal descriptions, annexation documents, surveys, and subdivision plats.

Infomation on each Public Land Survey System (PLSS) standard corner in Manitowoc County is stored in this feature class. Corner points are identified and indexed by the state standard "Wisconsin Corner Point Identification System."

Centerline is a linear feature class that represents roads in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It contains the low-to-high address ranges for both the left and right sides of roads. This feature class may contain actual high and low or theoretical high and low addresses depending on how the municipality reported their values.

Public Access Points dataset current as of 2010. Public access points maintained by Manitowoc County are part of the County Parks data layer..

These data were automated to provide an accurate high-resolution historical shoreline of Manitowoc, Lake Michigan suitable as a geographic information system (GIS) data layer. These data are derived from shoreline maps that were produced by the NOAA National Ocean Service including its predecessor agencies which were based on an office interpretation of imagery and/or field survey. The NGS attribution scheme 'Coastal Cartographic Object Attribute Source Table (C-COAST)' was developed to conform the attribution of various sources of shoreline data into one attribution catalog. C-COAST is not a recognized standard, but was influenced by the International Hydrographic Organization's S-57 Object-Attribute standard so the data would be more accurately translated into S-57. This resource is a member of https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39808

The larger rivers, streams, and creeks in Manitowoc County were originally delineated from a 2005 digital orthophotography project. The features were adjusted using Manitowoc County's 2017 digital orthophotograph and 2 ft. contours and breaklines created from a 2015 LiDAR project.

Cities, Towns and Villages dataset current as of 2013. Civil Divisions represent the municipal boundaries of the Cities, Villages, and Towns in Manitowoc County..

The Supervisory Districts data set shows the districts approved by the Manitowoc County Board of Supervisors through the redistricting process following the 2020 U.S. census. Districts were orginally created by the Planning and Zoning Department using the State of Wisconsin's WISE-LR program. Districts were modified by the GIS Office so that boundaries would line up with other locally used data sets, including municipal boundaries, PLSS, road centerlines, railroads, parcels, and hydrology.

Aerial Photography and Imagery, Uncorrected dataset current as of 1961. Hard copy aerial photographs taken in 1961..

This polygon dataset represents the school dristicts in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was created using the school district code in the assessment/tax database joined to the tax parcel polygons using the County's parcel identification number (PIN). The parcel polygons were then dissolved on the district codes and manually squared off at road right-of-ways.

Election Districts and Precincts dataset current as of 2013. Wards serve as administrative subunits that are aggregated into election districts of equal population..

Road and Street Centerlines dataset current as of 2013. Road centerlines derived from 2005 orthos and have been adjusted as necessary. The file is attributed with address ranges for use in emergency dispatching and geocoding..

Trails, Other dataset current as of 2010. Proposed and existing recreational trails (excluding snowmobile trails). Proposed trails are coded as high, medium, or low priority..

This feature class contains the government lots in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Anytime a full quarter-quarter section could not be created by the original government surveyors because of the existence of a meandered water body, government lots were created to comprise that area.

This feature class is a composite polygon layer containing coding for each level of PLSS division in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. This is a production feature class that combines the nesting and hierarchy of the PLSS to assure vertical integration of the polygons. The polygon components of the composite are separated for the purposes of publication and for cartographic display and labeling or annotation.

Aerial Photography and Imagery, Ortho-Corrected dataset current as of 2005. Digital orthophographs (DOPs) were derived from natural color aerial photographs taken in the spring of 2005. The DOP scale is 1:2400 (1" = 200') rectified to 12" pixels..

Public safety responding territories, including ambulance, fire, first responder, jaws, and police districts in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Combined into beats and ORIs for use in the computer-aided dispatching software used by the Manitowoc County Joint Dispatch Center.

Stream polygons in Manitowoc County. Features were delineated using Manitowoc County's 2017 digital orthophotograph and 2 ft. contours and breaklines created from a 2015 LiDAR project.