This dataset contains both Union High School Districts and Unified School Districts within Maricopa County, Arizona. 1. When there is a Unified School District, the Elementary and High School District boundaries are the same and there is only one governing board.2. When there is a Union High School District, more than one individual Elementary School District feeds into that Union High School District. The governing board for the Union High School District and individual Elementary School Districts are separate.

An Interactive map of the Foreign-Trade Zone 75 located in Maricopa, Pinal, and Yavapi county in Arizona. The map includes placeholders of areas where current FTZ members are located and industry thet belong to. The map also shows the excluded area near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

Regional Heat Vulnerability Map and Cooling Solutions

The regional heat vulnerability map and cooling solutions webtool offers two data sources for equitable heat mitigation. The dashboard layers vulnerability data onto land surface temperature regional rankings to identify areas with high and low heat exposure and vulnerability as well as the existing assets in each census block group. Additional layers can be added into the heat vulnerability map to highlight how heat affects critical infrastructures including schools, mobile home parks, parking lots, public transportation stops, pedestrian thoroughfares, and bikeways. The solutions tab showcases a variety of heat mitigation solutions and the research behind them. Heat-related solutions and resources from urban Maricopa County are included, including solutions funded through the Healthy Urban Environment Initiative. The data catalogued here are the underlying data that populate the webtool.

Healthy Urban Environment (HUE) Initiative - Overview

HUE is a solutions-focused research, policy and technology incubator to create healthier communities across Maricopa County (central Arizona, USA) through collaboration between researchers, practitioners and community members. As such, HUE funded rapid development, testing and deployment of heat-mitigation and air-quality improvement strategies and technologies.

Heat emerged as the urgent focus, as urban centers across the desert Southwest continue to grow in size and density, aggravating existing challenges posed by the expansion of the built environment. In Phoenix, AZ, this expansion of the built environment creates conditions which magnify the intensity and duration of heat – making it difficult for residents to achieve thermal comfort throughout the day and night. Further, the legacies of urban sprawl and transportation planning in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area have contributed to challenges with atmospheric pollutants. Importantly, urban heat and air quality issues intersect to produce negative health incomes that impact the region’s communities, particularly those who are most vulnerable and least able to adapt.

This work was funded as part of the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) initiative by the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority (MCIDA), Award #AWD00033817. This funding facilitated collaboration between the City of Tempe, the Decision Theater at Arizona State University (ASU) and ASU researchers to build an interactive webtool to assist local municipalities, nonprofits, community members, researchers, and other stakeholders in understanding heat, vulnerabilities, and solutions to heat in urban Maricopa County region.

Maricopa County is home to one of the largest regional parks systems in the nation with over 120,000 acres of open space parks that include hundreds of miles of trails, campgrounds, nature centers and the Desert Outdoor Environmental Learning Center at Lake Pleasant.Currently, there are 10 regional parks in the system which we're happy to report were visited by over 2.1 million people In 2013. Whether you're planning on hiking along a barrier-free trail, enjoying the scenic Sonoran Desert views on horseback, or peddling rigorously up a trail on a mountain bike, the parks offer a variety of opportunities for all types of users, ages and comfort levels. Best of all, Maricopa County's regional parks are all within a 45-minute drive from downtown Phoenix! This interactive map provides a new of exploring the parks before you actually visit them. See where various facilities are, from campgrounds to individual restroom buildings. Explore the trail system to get an idea of how long or difficult your hike, bike ride or horseback-riding trip is going to be! We are working on a version where you'll be able to explore individual trail segments so you can create your own itineraries. Also under development are trail elevation profile graphs (with accompanying maps) for selected loops, in both interactive and PDF formats. Look for the brown "graph" icons to access those maps (currently available in McDowell Mountain and San Tan Mountain Regional Parks).Use the bookmarks to zoom in on parks, Sun Circle and Maricopa Trail to make trailheads and amenities visible. Once on the trail, you can click on the circle (below the "Home" icon) near the upper-left corner of the window and it’ll zoom to where you are on the trail! Explore other buttons. You can even change the base map and add aerial imagery. Enjoy your County Parks!