To access parcel information:Enter an address or zoom in by using the +/- tools or your mouse scroll wheel. Parcels will draw when zoomed in.Click on a parcel to display a popup with information about that parcel.Click the "Basemap" button to display background aerial imagery.From the "Layers" button you can turn map features on and off.Complete Help (PDF)Parcel Legend:Full Map LegendAbout this ViewerThis viewer displays land property boundaries from assessor parcel maps across Massachusetts. Each parcel is linked to selected descriptive information from assessor databases. Data for all 351 cities and towns are the standardized "Level 3" tax parcels served by MassGIS. More details ...Read about and download parcel dataUpdatesV 1.1: Added 'Layers' tab. (2018)V 1.2: Reformatted popup to use HTML table for columns and made address larger. (Jan 2019)V 1.3: Added 'Download Parcel Data by City/Town' option to list of layers. This box is checked off by default but when activated a user can identify anywhere and download data for that entire city/town, except Boston. (March 14, 2019)V 1.4: Data for Boston is included in the "Level 3" standardized parcels layer. (August 10, 2020)V 1.4 MassGIS, EOTSS 2021

When using apps or web maps from MassGIS in ArcGIS Online, this map may be added as a basemap from the Basemap Gallery (based on the MassGIS Basemap tile layer).This general-reference map for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts uses MassGIS data and includes a topographic base featuring water bodies, rivers and streams, open space areas and hillshade; many "detailed features" including roads, points of interest, place names, and more; and 2D building structure outlines. The three "layers" in this map are also cached separately and may be added to maps individually as needed:Building Structures (2D)Detailed FeaturesTopographic Base>> See a map legend and read more about this map. The tile layer in this basemap is refreshed regularly.

March 2025

MassGIS' standardized assessors’ parcel mapping data set contains property (land lot) boundaries and database information from each community's assessor.The data were developed through a competitive procurement funded by MassGIS. Each community in the Commonwealth was bid on by one or more vendors and the unit of work awarded was a city or town. The specification for this work was Level 3 of the MassGIS Digital Parcel Standard.This feature service contains three feature classes and one table.Map service also available.See the datalayer page for full details.

MassGIS scanned the USGS topographic quadrangles to create a digital database that can provide images of the paper maps. These images can be used as a backdrop for plotting vector data and for interpretation and analysis. MassGIS scanned the 15-minute series (vintage 1982-1990) where these maps were available; the 7.5-minute maps (1967-1979) were used elsewhere. Note that the elevation labels for the contours on the maps may be in meters or feet, depending on the vintage of the original paper map that MassGIS scanned. Contour labels on maps from 1982 and later are in meters; labels on maps from 1967 through 1979 are in feet. See the

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To access parcel information:Enter an address or zoom in by using the +/- tools or your mouse scroll wheel. Parcels will draw when zoomed in.Click on a parcel to display a popup with information about that parcel.Click the "Basemap" button to display background aerial imagery.From the "Layers" button you can turn map features on and off. Check on 'Download Parcel Data by City/Town' and click in the map for links to download all parcel data for that municipality.Complete Help (PDF)Parcel Legend:Full Map LegendAbout this ViewerThe map displays land property boundaries from assessor parcel maps across Massachusetts. Parcel information is from local assessor databases. More...Read about and download parcel dataAlso available: an accessible, non-map-based Property Information FinderDISCLAIMER: Assessor’s parcel mapping is a representation of property boundaries, not an authoritative source. The authoritative record of property boundaries is recorded at the registries of deeds. A legally authoritative map of property boundaries can only be produced by a professional land surveyor.V 1.4 MassGIS, EOTSS 2021

The symbology of the data in this hosted tile layer is optimized for display atop aerial (ortho) imagery. Tiles are available for levels 7 through 20.Map Features for imagery include:

Political Boundaries: Massachusetts cities and towns, counties and state border, MassGIS).Transportation: Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Roads (MassDOT, MassGIS); MBTA subway and Commuter Rail lines and stations (Central Transportation Planning Staff, MassGIS); Airports, Ferry Routes and Seaports (MassDOT); Airport Runways and Airfields (Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)).Infrastructure and Facilities: Lighthouses and Lights (Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management); Licensed Child Care Programs (Department of Early Education and Care); Schools (Pre-K-High School) (Massachusetts Department of Education, MassGIS); Colleges and Universities (MassGIS); Acute Care Hospitals and Non-acute Care Hospitals (Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of Emergency Medical Services, CHIA); Libraries, Police Stations, Fire Stations, Town Halls, Places of Worship, Courthouses, Prisons, DCR Pools.This service is used in the MassGIS Image Basemap.

Be certain to read the MassGIS methodology to fully understand how these areas are identified.

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This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. High-quality existing photography housed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS) was used as the base for the BOHA vegetation map. A true color orthophotomosaic was developed from a set of digital 1:5,000 scale medium resolution true color aerial images that are considered the new "basemap" for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by MassGIS and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) until 2005 DOQs became available in 2006 (MassGIS 2007). The photography for the entire commonwealth was captured in April 2005 when deciduous trees were mostly bare and the ground was generally free of snow. The image type is 4-band (RGBN) natural color (Red, Green, Blue) and Near infrared in 8 bits (values ranging 0-255) per band format.

Using digital soils data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a series of selections and calculations classified soil associations into 9 different categories of prime forest based ultimately on forest productivity in white pine and red oak. Other data sets were used to refine this classification, including aspect, 1999 land use - land cover, riparian, slope position, wetlands, hydrologic soil association and unique areas. The hydrologic soil associations were based on NRCS information that came as Access files with the soils data. All other data was available from MassGIS.The project “Soil Productivity Mapping for Use in Forest Management” is a digital representation of work done previously in the Department of Natural Resources Conservation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. GIS data created for this project followed (where possible) the protocol established in UMass Research Bulletin #705 – Prime Forest Land Classification for Forest Productivity in Massachusetts.Also see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-prime-forest-land for full metadata and access to data download.

This map service contains the Property Tax Parcel Mapping from MassGIS. The data are cached and stored as a tiled map service (levels 15-20) at ArcGIS Online for fast display.

This tile cache was last updated on June 24, 2025.

MassGIS' standardized "Level 3" assessors’ parcel mapping data set contains property (land lot) boundaries and database information from each community's assessor.

The data were developed through a competitive procurement funded by MassGIS. Each community in the Commonwealth was bid on by one or more vendors and the unit of work awarded was a city or town. The specification for this work was Level 3 of the MassGIS Digital Parcel Standard. Standardized data are available for all of Massachusetts' 351 cities and towns.

MassGIS is continuing the project, updating parcel data provided by municipalities. See the L3 Parcel Fiscal Year Status Map.To query the parcels, use the hosted feature layer.

March 2025

Medium resolution true color ortho images for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, distributed by MassGIS. The photography for the entire commonwealth was captured in April 2005 when deciduous trees were mostly bare and the ground was generally free of snow. Original imagery pixel resolution is 1/2-meter.Original image type is 4-band (RGBN) natural color (Red, Green, Blue) and Near infrared in 8 bits (values ranging 0-255) per band format. This map service contains only the RGB bands and uses the "contrast stretched" JPEG 2000 versions MassGIS Produced from the original GeoTiff files. Image horizontal accuracy is +/-3 meters at the 95% confidence level at the nominal scale of 1:5,000. This digital orthoimagery can serve a variety of purposes, from general planning, to field reference for spatial analysis, to a tool for development and revision of vector maps. It can also serve as a reference layer or basemap for myriad applications inside geographic information system (GIS) software. The project was funded by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Massachusetts Highway Department, and the Department of Public Health.For full metadata visit https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-2005-aerial-imagery.

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here. High-quality existing photography developed by MassGIS was used as the base for the vegetation map (MassGIS 2007). A true color orthophoto mosaic was developed from a set of digital 1:5,000 scale medium resolution true color aerial images that are considered the new "base map" for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by MassGIS and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). The photography for the entire commonwealth was captured in April 2005 when deciduous trees were mostly bare and the ground was generally free of snow. The image type is 4-band (RGBN) natural color (Red, Green, Blue) and Near infrared in 8 bits (values ranging 0–255) per band format. Key information for the mosaic is summarized in Table 1. Appendix A contains additional detailed information regarding the aerial photography acquired from MASS GIS.

The 27 major drainage basins of Massachusetts as defined by the USGS Water Resources Division and the MA Water Resources Commission.Please see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-major-drainage-basins for more details.Map service also available.

MassGIS' standardized ("Level 3") property tax parcel mapping data set was developed through a competitive procurement funded by MassGIS. Each community in the Commonwealth was bid on by one or more vendors and the unit of work awarded was a city or town. The specification for this work was Level 3 of the MassGIS Digital Parcel Standard. Standardization of assessor parcel mapping is complete for all 351 Massachusetts' cities and towns. MassGIS is now incorporating updates from municipalities into the database. This hosted feature layer is exported from MassGIS' internal database of the feature class GISDATA.L3_TAXPAR_POLY_ASSESS, which links L3_TAXPAR_POLY and L3_ASSESS. The export includes the expression: (POLY_TYPE IN ('FEE', 'TAX')) OR (POLY_TYPE IN ('ROW', 'PRIV_ROW', 'RAIL_ROW', 'WATER') AND PROP_ID IS NOT NULL) It contains several fields from GISDATA.L3_ASSESS and stacked polygons where multiple assessor records link to a parcel. It contains features that do not have an associated record in GISDATA.L3_ASSESS, except for rights of way and water bodies. ROWs and water bodies with a non-null PROP_ID are included. The data in this feature layer is used for the popups in the Massachusetts Interactive Property Map. See full data descriptionA hosted tile layer will draw very quickly at map scale of 1:18,056 (level 15) to 1:564 (level 20).

The digital parcel data in this data layer were provided to MassGIS by communities, or their regional planning agency partners, that received parcel grants from MassGIS in 2002 and 2006. Each municipality's parcels found in this data set were provided to MassGIS separately and then appended together to form this single data layer. Most of the parcel data included in this data layer has not been updated since it was received by MassGIS in 2002/2003 and 2006. This data layer is under development. At the present time data are available for only 45 municipalities. The grant recipients were required to deliver digital parcel data complying with "Level II" of the MassGIS Standard for Digital Parcels and Related Data Sets. The data submitted by grant recipients were subjected to a rigorous quality assurance process to ensure compliance with the standard. The standard establishes requirements for how parcel boundaries are compiled. It also requires establishing a few attributes of the polygons that are unique to the standard. In addition, the standard requires that a minimum selection of information from the assessor's database be included in a separate database table that can be linked to the parcel polygons. At Level II of the standard, an "intersection table" is required, which makes it possible to correctly model the one-to-many and many-to-many relationships that exist between assessor map polygons and assessor databases. In ArcSDE. MassGIS stores the polygons as ASSESSPAR_POLY. The intersection table is named ASSESSPAR_POLY_INT and the database table is named ASSESSPAR_POLY_DATA.