The Urban Growth Area is used to manage future growth around densely populated areas. The urban growth area is the city/town and adjacent unincorporated growth area identified by the cities/towns/county to receive urban growth in the future. Outside of the boundary only rural growth is permissible.

Correction to this data can only be made through a Comprehensive Plan change or at the direction of Thurston County Long Range Planning due to a scrivener's error. The 1990 Washington State Growth Management Act requires the state's fastest growing cities and counties to designate UGAs around each city and town to accommodate the expected population growth over the next 20 years. In Thurston County, UGAs surround Bucoda, Lacey, Olympia, Rainier, Tumwater, Tenino, and Yelm. The current boundaries of the UGAs were established in 1990 and updated via the 2015 adoption of the Thurston County Comprehensive Plan: CHAPTER II - LAND USE II.URBAN GROWTH AREAS History and Purpose of Thurston County's Urban Growth Areas: In 1983, Thurston County, along with the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater, blazed the trail for growth management in Washington State by signing an interlocal government agreement called the "Urban Growth Management Agreement." That early agreement included an Urban Growth Management Boundary around the three cities to serve as a limit for the cities' expansion for 20 years. The purposes of the county's original growth areas remain relevant today: To provide for higher intensity development around the county's incorporated cities and towns and unincorporated community centers in order to concentrate development in areas where minimal impact to the environment, natural resources and rural atmosphere will occur. To minimize public costs and conserve energy by using services and facilities efficiently through concentration of development and integration of jobs, shopping, services and housing. To phase urban growth and infill with the provision of urban public services and facilities. One of the main effects of an urban growth area is to provide a limit for the extension of urban utilities, especially sewer service. To that end, overall residential density in urban growth areas should be high enough to support urban public services and to provide affordable housing choices. There should be a variety of housing types, with most densities ranging from 4 to 16 dwelling units per acre. Map M-14 identifies the urban growth areas for each city or town in Thurston County. The UGAs must accommodate the urban growth projected over the next 20 years including a reasonable market factor. Policies and actions emphasize the provision of urban land uses and services and include provisions specifically aimed at reducing low density residential sprawl. Joint plans established with each city and town include planning policies for each UGA. Joint plans are contained in separate documents, but are incorporated as part of the Thurston County Comprehensive Plan. Detailed land use designations for all UGAs around cities and towns are provided in the following joint plans (Map M-14 is keyed to the numbering below):Olympia/Thurston County Joint PlanLacey/Thurston County Joint Plan Tumwater/Thurston County Joint PlanYelm/Thurston County Joint PlanRainier/Thurston County Joint PlanTenino/Thurston County Joint PlanBucoda/Thurston County Joint PlanList of Map Correction's (Correction can only be made through a Comprehensive Plan change or at the direction of Thurston County Long Range Planning due to a scrivener's error.)Made on 5 AUG 2014 by KLW. Made on 15 July 2016 by KAH. - Correction of scrivener's error in Tenino UGA Boundary at the Teitge Annexations. This error was due to parcel and city mapping issues. The UGA has been fixed to be consistent with the parcel legal descriptions and the legal description included in the annexation ordinance approved by the City of Tenino, and the annexation approved by the Boundary Review Board.

description: The Digital Geologic Map of Olympic National Park and Vicinity, Washington is composed of GIS data layers complete with ArcMap 9.3 layer (.LYR) files, two ancillary GIS tables, a Map PDF document with ancillary map text, figures and tables, a FGDC metadata record and a 9.3 ArcMap (.MXD) Document that displays the digital map in 9.3 ArcGIS. The data were completed as a component of the Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) program, a National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) funded program that is administered by the NPS Geologic Resources Division (GRD). Source geologic maps and data used to complete this GRI digital dataset were provided by the following: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources. Detailed information concerning the sources used and their contribution the GRI product are listed in the Source Citation sections(s) of this metadata record (olym_metadata.txt; available at http://nrdata.nps.gov/olym/nrdata/geology/gis/olym_metadata.xml). All GIS and ancillary tables were produced as per the NPS GRI Geology-GIS Geodatabase Data Model v. 2.1. (available at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/geology/GeologyGISDataModel.cfm). The GIS data is available as a 9.3 personal geodatabase (olym_geology.mdb), and as shapefile (.SHP) and DBASEIV (.DBF) table files. The GIS data projection is NAD83, UTM Zone 10N. That data is within the area of interest of Olympic National Park.; abstract: The Digital Geologic Map of Olympic National Park and Vicinity, Washington is composed of GIS data layers complete with ArcMap 9.3 layer (.LYR) files, two ancillary GIS tables, a Map PDF document with ancillary map text, figures and tables, a FGDC metadata record and a 9.3 ArcMap (.MXD) Document that displays the digital map in 9.3 ArcGIS. The data were completed as a component of the Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) program, a National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) funded program that is administered by the NPS Geologic Resources Division (GRD). Source geologic maps and data used to complete this GRI digital dataset were provided by the following: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources. Detailed information concerning the sources used and their contribution the GRI product are listed in the Source Citation sections(s) of this metadata record (olym_metadata.txt; available at http://nrdata.nps.gov/olym/nrdata/geology/gis/olym_metadata.xml). All GIS and ancillary tables were produced as per the NPS GRI Geology-GIS Geodatabase Data Model v. 2.1. (available at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/geology/GeologyGISDataModel.cfm). The GIS data is available as a 9.3 personal geodatabase (olym_geology.mdb), and as shapefile (.SHP) and DBASEIV (.DBF) table files. The GIS data projection is NAD83, UTM Zone 10N. That data is within the area of interest of Olympic National Park.

The Olympic Cu-Au Province, of the eastern Gawler Craton, lies beneath the sedimentary sequences of the Stuart Shelf. Rocks of the basement are Late Archaean metamorphics, and the Proterozoic …Show full descriptionThe Olympic Cu-Au Province, of the eastern Gawler Craton, lies beneath the sedimentary sequences of the Stuart Shelf. Rocks of the basement are Late Archaean metamorphics, and the Proterozoic Donington Suite, Hutchison Group, Wallaroo Group, Hiltaba Suite granitoids and mafic intrusives, and the Gawler Range Volcanics. Except for parts of the Gawler Range Volcanics, none of the basement crops out and is covered by sequences exceeding 3 km thickness, in places. Interpretation of units and structures was via gravity and airborne magnetic data. Some geological calibration was done by checking exploration drill logs or by examining the core. When core was examined, petrophysical properties were measured and used to constrain the interpretation. Related products Geophysical interpretation of the central Olympic Cu-Au province - GIS Dataset

Contained within the Atlas of Canada Poster Map Series, is a special edition 1:250 000 scale topographic map was produced to support the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympics Winter Games. This large-format wall map provides broad, up-to-date coverage of the Winter Games region in British Columbia.

The subject map presents a weights of evidence mineral prospectivity analysis of the Olympic Cu-Au Province in the eastern Gawler Craton. This metallogenic province is host to iron oxide - copper gold (IOCG) deposits including Olympic Dam and... The subject map presents a weights of evidence mineral prospectivity analysis of the Olympic Cu-Au Province in the eastern Gawler Craton. This metallogenic province is host to iron oxide - copper gold (IOCG) deposits including Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill. As much of the province is buried beneath younger sedimentary cover, undertaking a mineral prospectivity analysis in this 'fairway' is particularly relevant in enabling ranking of camp- to deposit-scale geophysical features. The analysis presented here integrates regional gravity and magnetic potential field data, magnetotelluric data, and basement geological interpretations. A knowledge-based weights of evidence approach (Bonham-Carter 1994) was chosen for use, as the IOCG deposit characteristics known within this region comprise a wide variety of geological hosts, structural settings and alteration/mineralisation styles (Reid 2019). The high degree of variability in deposit controls and manifestation, coupled with variable data density, render using an evidence-based approach involving training datasets (e.g. Ford et al. 2019) unsuitable. Therefore, applying a simple mineral systems approach (Wyborn, Heinrich and Jaques 1994; McCuaig and Hronsky 2014) using regional-scale data with unbiased or uniform coverage represents the most appropriate methodology for this fairway. This study represents an update from previous work of Skirrow, Schofield and Connelly (2011), who assessed areas of interest for U-rich IOCG deposits across east-central South Australia. Skirrow, Schofield and Connelly (2011) used a variety of data types, including mapped and interpreted geology, regional geophysics and point-source information from drillholes. Recent improvements to the interpreted basement geology of the region (Wise, Cowley and Fabris 2015), geophysical anomaly delineation (Katona and Fabris 2019), and lithospheric-scale magnetotelluric imaging (Thiel et al. 2016), have warranted making an update to prospectivity models across the Olympic Domain. The resulting models highlight the major IOCG deposits as well as under-explored regions, and validate the weights of evidence approach at this domain scale. Incorporation of geological proxies for mineral system components and their integration with geophysical anomalism provides a method for narrowing the search space for IOCG deposits beyond targeting gravity anomalies alone, and eliminates many false positives. This 'intelligence amplification' process provides a pragmatic framework for exploration effort scale-reduction from a domain of proven prospectivity to the camp scale.

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The map shows the geography of the Vancouver Winter Games region in British Columbia.

Polygon representing an area of the River General (g) greenway overlay zone for South Waterfront development. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/53363.-- Additional Information: Category: Zoning Code Purpose: For mapping the General (g) overlay zone in South Waterfront. Update Frequency: As Needed-- Metadata Link:https://www.portlandmaps.com/metadata/index.cfm?&action=DisplayLayer&LayerID=52732

This data set was developed as an information layer for the Washington State Department of Commerce. It is designed to be used as part of the Puget Sound Mapping Project to provide a generalized and standardized depiction of land uses and growth throughout the Puget Sound region.NOTE: Because this is a large dataset, some geoprocessing operations (i.e. dissolve) may not work on the entire dataset. You will receive a topoengine error. Clipping out an area of interest (i.e. a county) and performing the operation on it instead of on the full dataset is a way to get around this software limitation.

Polygons defining the directional prefix and suffix combinations according to the county address grid. Some cities have street names and directional components that differ from the county standard. An attempt has been made to include these by reviewing available materials.

The Aircraft Landing Overlay Zone provides safer operating conditions for aircraft in the vicinity ofPortland International Airport by limiting the height of structures, vegetation, and construction equipment. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/53338-- Additional Information: Category: Zoning Code Purpose: Map were Aircraft Landing Overlay Zone applies. Is mapped as (h) overlay on zoning maps. Update Frequency: As Needed-- Metadata Link:https://www.portlandmaps.com/metadata/index.cfm?&action=DisplayLayer&LayerID=54164