North Carolina Effective Flood zones: In 2000, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated North Carolina a Cooperating Technical Partner State, formalizing an agreement between FEMA and the State to modernize flood maps. This partnership resulted in creation of the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program (NCFMP). As a CTS, the State assumed primary ownership and responsibility of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for all North Carolina communities as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This project includes conducting flood hazard analyses and producing updated, Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs). Floodplain management is a process that aims to achieve reduced losses due to flooding. It takes on many forms, but is realized through a series of federal, state, and local programs and regulations, in concert with industry practice, to identify flood risk, implement methods to protect man-made development from flooding, and protect the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains. FIRMs are the primary tool for state and local governments to mitigate areas of flooding. Individual county databases can be downloaded from https://fris.nc.gov Updated Jan 17th, 2025.

This service provides a quarterly snapshot of the North Carolina state-maintained road network centerlines. Here, the route network is divided into three layers with symbolized Route Classifications listed below.State Maintained RoadsInterstateUS RouteNC RouteSecondary RouteRampsRest AreasOther State Agency RouteState Maintained Roads - Primary RoadsInterstateUS RouteNC RouteState Maintained Roads - InterstatesInterstateNorth Carolina’s route network is comprised of Interstate, US, NC, Secondary Roads, Ramps, and non-state maintained and projected roads required for federal reporting purposes. Route attributes include Route Class, Route Qualifier, Route Inventory, Route Number, Route Name, and County name. The Route ID attribute is an 11-digit composite route number, the identifier for the Dominant Route. It uniquely identifies routes statewide and should be used as the route identifier when performing LRS analysis using route/milepost referencing.NCDOT adopted the road centerline based Linear Reference System (LRS) Network as it’s official Enterprise LRS, to which multiple road inventory attributes are referenced along measured routes throughout North Carolina. These routes are classified as either System or Non-System routes. System routes are routes within the state-maintained road network, and are comprised of Interstates, US Routes, NC Routes, Secondary Routes, Ramps, and Non-System Routes. Non-System routes are routes that are typically not maintained by NCDOT, but instead by a local agency (county, city or MPO/RPO). The local agency is the source for updating these Non-System routes in NCDOT’s LRS. The collection of routes, System and Non-System, is the NCDOT LRS Network referred to as MilePoint.MetadataThe metadata for the contained layers of the NCDOT State Maintained Roads service is available through the following links:NCDOT Route ArcsPoint of Contact North Carolina Department of Information Technology -Transportation, GIS UnitGIS Data and Services ConsultantContact information:gishelp@ncdot.govCentury Center – Building B1020 Birch Ridge DriveRaleigh, NC 27610Hours of service: 9:00am - 5:00pm Monday – FridayContact instructions: Please send an email with any issues, questions, or comments regarding the State Maintained Roads data. If it is an immediate need, please indicate as such in the subject line in an email.NCDOT GIS Unit GO! NC Product TeamLastUpdated: 2024-01-01 00:00:00

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY USING THE MAP OR DOWNLOAD TOOLS ON THIS ARCGIS HUB ITEM PAGE. IT WILL RESULT IN A PIXELATED ORTHOIMAGE. INSTEAD, DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY TILE OR BY COUNTY MOSAIC (2010 - current year).This service depicts true color imagery for the 26 counties representing the Northern Piedmont and Mountains region of North Carolina. This includes the following counties: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Yancey. The imagery has a pixel resolution of 6 inches and was flown in the beginning of 2018. The RMSE is 1.5 ft X and Y. Individual pixel values may have been altered during image processing. Therefore, this service should be used for general reference and viewing. Image analysis requiring examination of individual pixel values is discouraged. To view the latest imagery for any location in the state, customers should use the "Orthoimagery_Latest" image service (https://services.nconemap.gov/secure/rest/services/Imagery/Orthoimagery_Latest/ImageServer).To find specific dates the images were captured use the imagery dates app or download the data.Metadata:Summary metadata for orthoimagery mosaicsSummary metadata for orthoimagery tilesContractor-specific metadata for Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey countiesContractor-specific metadata for Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Catawba, Iredell, Watauga and Wilkes countiesContractor-specific metadata for Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Rowan, Surry, Stokes, and Yadkin countiesContractor-specific metadata for Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham counties

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY USING THE MAP OR DOWNLOAD TOOLS ON THIS ARCGIS HUB ITEM PAGE. IT WILL RESULT IN A PIXELATED ORTHOIMAGE. INSTEAD, DOWNLOAD THE IMAGERY BY TILE OR BY COUNTY MOSAIC (2010 - current year).To view the latest imagery for any location in the state, customers should use the "Orthoimagery_Latest" image service which can be found at https://nconemap.gov.To view the latest imagery that is suitable for raster analysis, customers should use the "Orthoimagery_Latest_Analysis" image service which can be found at https://nconemap.gov.To find specific dates the images were captured use the imagery dates app or download the data.Metadata:Summary metadata for orthoimagery mosaicsSummary metadata for orthoimagery tilesContractor-specific metadata for Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, and Yancey countiesContractor-specific metadata for Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin countiesContractor-specific metadata for Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, and Rowan countiesContractor-specific metadata for Alamance, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph countiesContractor-specific metadata for Caswell, Rockingham, and Stokes counties