The NDMPL (Washington State Non-Department of Natural Resources Major Public Lands) data contains ownership parcels for Federal, State (excluding WA DNR), County and City lands within the State of Washington. It also includes Tribal administrative boundaries. The NDMPL data layer is a polygon dataset and does not contain arc attribute information for ownership boundaries. This data is not connected to WA DNR's Cadastre layers (these data include WADNR ownership, Public Land Survey System and other cadastral data). As updates are made to Cadastre layers, they may not be reflected in NDMPL.WA Major Public Lands MetadataClick to downloadThis layer was last updated October 2021.

Washington Department of Natural Resources Districts. These areas are administrative subunits of a Washington Department of Natural Resources Region.WA DNR Districts MetadataDownload Link

Washington Department of Natural Resources Local Unit. These areas are administrative subunits of a Washington Department of Natural Resources District.WA DNR Units Metadata

The Parcel layer consists of parcels that are areas land in which the Department of Natural Resources holds some interest and are located anywhere in the upland area of the State of Washington. Three types of Parcels are currently held in the parcel layer. The number of Parcel types may increase in the future. Ownership Parcels, parcel type code 1, consist of Washington State owned land managed by the Department of Natural Resources. Most ownership parcels are held and managed for the benefit of some trust such as the Common School and Indemnity trust. Of the several parcel types, only Ownership Parcels represent the entire extent of the particular type of land managed by DNR. The other parcel types are incomplete data sets. Disposed Parcels, parcel type code 2, consist of ownership parcels that have been disposed of since July 1, 2007. A very few parcels disposed of prior to that date are also included. Easement Parcels, parcel type code 3, consist of various types of easements acquired for the State by the Department. Some of the Easements are negative easements over land not owned by the State, for example Conservation Easements which remove certain development rights away for the parcel owner. Other Easements are positive rights acquired by the State, such as roadway easements.WA DNR Managed Land Parcels Metadata

Public Land Survey (PLS) Township Subdivision. The primary subdivision of a PLSS Township. It may be a PLSS Section Area, a Donation Land Claim, a PLSS Tract, or a Protracted Block.WA Public Land Survey Sections Metadata

Click to downloadClick for metadataService URL: https://gis.dnr.wa.gov/site3/rest/services/Public_Boundaries/WADNR_PUBLIC_Cadastre_OpenData/FeatureServer/10Official Washington State boundary

PLS Township. In the Public Land Survey System a Township refers to a unit of land, that is nominally six miles on a side, usually containing 36 sections, some of which are designed to correct for the convergence of meridians or range lines, with boundaries conforming to meridians and parallels within established limits.WA Public Land Survey Townships MetadataClick for downloadService URL: https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/arcgisext/weba_ext_prod4/rest/services/Cadastre/WADNR_Cadastre_OpenData/MapServer/8

Statewide Ecopia 3 foot Land Cover (2021-2022)This raster land cover data is based off of high-resolution statewide imagery from 2021-2022. It was used by Ecopia to extract and digitize the entire state into 7 different land cover classes. Download Notes:This service can be entered into ArcGIS Pro where "Download Rasters" can be used to download approximately 20 square miles at a time. (Rt. click layer in TOC > Data > Download Rasters)Alternatively, the entire statewide 3ft dataset is available as a zipped download from here (includes colormap file): Ecopia_Statewide_3ft_Raster_TilesClasses available at bottom of this pages.Data SpecificationImagery Used for Extraction: Pixel resolution: 15 cm (6")Camera sensor: Hexagon Pushbroom (Content Mapper)Date of capture: 06/25/2021 - 08/14/2022Date of Vector Extraction: June 2023Extraction Methodology:Ecopia uses proprietary extraction and modeling software to process raw images into high-resolution land cover classifications.Quality Measurements:Measure Name - Threshold across Impervious Polygons:False Negatives <= 5% All PolygonsFalse Positives <= 5% All PolygonsValid Interpretation >= 95% All PolygonsMinimum Area 100% All PolygonsValid Geometry 100% All PolygonsMeasure Name - Threshold across Natural Polygons:False Negatives <=5% All PolygonsFalse Positives <=5% All PolygonsValid Interpretation >=90% All PolygonsMinimum Area 100% All PolygonsValid Geometry 100% All PolygonsLand Cover Classes:UnclassifiedImperviousImpervious, covered by treesShrub/low vegetationTree/forest/high vegetationOpen waterRailroadVegetation (Canopy Mapping)Tree canopy will be captured as a unique polygon layer. It can therefore overlap impervious layers.High vegetation is distinguished from low vegetation based on crown, texture, and derived height models. Leveraging stereo imagery produces results using 3D elevation models used to aid the distinction of vegetation categories. Distinguishing low from high vegetation is based on a 5m threshold, but this is not always feasible, especially in areas where heavy canopy prevents a visualization of the ground. In these circumstances, high vegetation will be given the priority over low vegetation. For more information visit: www.ecopiatech.comClasses:0: No data - Null, clear1: Unclassified2: Impervious3: Impervious, Covered by Tree Canopy6: Shrub/Low Vegetation7: Tree/Forest/High Vegetation8: Open Water12: Railroad

Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Regions. These are the largest DNR administrative areas.WA DNR Regions MetadataClick to download

For large areas, like Washington State, download as a file geodatabase. Large data sets like this one, for the State of Washington, may exceed the limits for downloading as shape files, excel files, or KML files. For areas less than a county, you may use the map to zoom to your area and download as shape file, excel or KML, if that format is desired.General DescriptionThis layer shows only Active Roads on DNR Lands in black. This does not include abandoned, orphaned, decommisioned, or closed roads on DNR lands. Roads not on DNR Lands are of unknown status are shown in grey. Roads not on DNR lands and of unknown status may not be drivable. IncludesThe ROAD feature class stores the spatial location and attributes of the State of Washington, Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) forest roads and of other DNR, public and selected private roads in the state. Other elements of the transportation network such as ferries, railroads, and trails are not included. ContactWashington State Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) Engineering DivisionAlexandra WashburnAlexandra.Washburn@dnr.wa.gov Updating EffortsUpdating and editing efforts are primarily focused on roads in DNR managed state lands, adjunct roads or in areas that are covered by a published map that is undergoing an update. The original road lines were entered primarily by digitizing from paper maps, scanning by machine, or derived stereoscopically from black and white photo imagery. They are currently updated and corrected as needed, in most cases using on-line, geo-referenced orthophotography, stereo color imagery, GPS or field survey.Roads on DNR Lands should be edited frequently by division staff.Roads outside of DNR Lands are probably edited much less frequently. The group in mapping that did this, does not do it anymore.AttributesThe ROAD layer includes basic attributes that are linked to the intersection-based road segments. These attributes store information about route id, road name, road number, control, responsibility, status, access, surface, classification, and abandonment.PurposeThis layer is used to help in road infrastructure planning and maintenance, Forest Practices and Road Maintenance and Abandonment Planning (RMAP) compliance reporting, forest management, timber sales planning, and is the basis for the ROAD_ROUTE_FT layer and associated event tables that currently record these maintenance activities and road easements. It is widely used as a layer in cartographic presentations and published maps.

For large areas, like Washington State, download as a file geodatabase. Large data sets like this one, for the State of Washington, may exceed the limits for downloading as shape files, excel files, or KML files. For areas less than a county, you may use the map to zoom to your area and download as shape file, excel or KML, if that format is desired.The Boundary layer consists of lines representing the boundaries of Parcels and Legal Descriptions. (See the metadata for those two layers.) Boundary lines are the places that are surveyed in order to delimit the extent of Parcels and Legal Descriptions. The character and accuracy of Boundary locations is held in the attributes of the Points that are at the ends of Boundary lines. All the boundaries of Parcels and Legal Descriptions are covered by a Boundary line. Currently the Boundary layer has little functionality. The only distinction it makes is between upland boundaries and shorelines. In the future Boundary lines will have a richer set of attributes in order to accommodate cartographic needs to distinguish between types of boundaries.WA Boundaries Metadata

The Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) was asked by the state Legislature to provide an inventory of lands in Washington owned by federal, state, and local governments, and by Native American tribes by July 1, 2014 (2013-15 Capital Budget proviso, Section 3174 of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5035).The Public Lands Inventory focuses on natural resource and recreation lands and shows ownership (federal, by agency; state, by agency; local government, by county or city), ownership type (fee simple or assumed fee simple; aquatic, upland, or assumed upland), location, acreage, principal use (developed recreation, habitat and passive recreation, revenue generation, conservation, assumed habitat and passive recreation, other, or unknown), and the date and cost of recent acquisitions (within the past ten years).

In 2007, Washington State legislators requested a trails database, but funding to complete that statewide project was not made available at the time.

In 2009, the Federal Government outlined the need for trails database schema in their Data Standards Review Committee, stressing the efficiency in management decisions that a streamlined database can provide.

“The collection, storage and management of trail related data are important components of everyday business activities in many federal and state land-managing agencies, trail organizations and businesses. From a management perspective, trails data must often mesh closely with other types of infrastructure, resource and facility enterprise data.”

In 2014, the Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer's (OCIO) Geospatial Program Office acquired a Nonhighway and Off-Road Vehicle Activities (NOVA) Program grant through the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) giving the OCIO initial funding to develop a statewide trails database based on Federal Geographic Data Committee standards. Using the same standard for all trails data will allow land managers and recreational users throughout the state to access and use the data regardless of administrative boundary.

"Data standards will make it easier for trail information to be accessed and exchanged and used by more than one individual agency or group…Ease in sharing data increases the capability for enhanced and consistent mapping, inventory, monitoring, conditions assessment, maintenance, costing, budgeting, information retrieval, and summary reporting for internal and external needs.”

Along with streamlining data and facilitating efficiency in management practices across agencies, the database will provide a source of trails information that is open and free to the public.The 2016 State Legislature provided additional funding from the Nonhighway and Off-road Vehicle Activities Account to the Office of the Chief Information Officer to continue work on the database.

Additional details about the project can be found here:

Washington State Trails Map

Please note that this map and its component services have been designed to work together as part of the web application.

The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public open space and voluntarily provided, private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastral Theme (http://www.fgdc.gov/ngda-reports/NGDA_Datasets.html). PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database of areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural, recreational or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase maps and describes public open space and other protected areas. Most areas are public lands owned in fee; however, long-term easements, leases, and agreements or administrative designations documented in agency management plans may be included. The PAD-US database strives to be a complete “best available” inventory of protected areas (lands and waters) including data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The dataset is built in collaboration with several partners and data providers (http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/stewards/). See Supplemental Information Section of this metadata record for more information on partnerships and links to major partner organizations. As this dataset is a compilation of many data sets; data completeness, accuracy, and scale may vary. Federal and state data are generally complete, while local government and private protected area coverage is about 50% complete, and depends on data management capacity in the state. For completeness estimates by state: http://www.protectedlands.net/partners. As the federal and state data are reasonably complete; focus is shifting to completing the inventory of local gov and voluntarily provided, private protected areas. The PAD-US geodatabase contains over twenty-five attributes and four feature classes to support data management, queries, web mapping services and analyses: Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Fee, Easements and Combined. The data contained in the MPA Feature class are provided directly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Protected Areas Center (MPA, http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov ) tracking the National Marine Protected Areas System. The Easements feature class contains data provided directly from the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED, http://conservationeasement.us ) The MPA and Easement feature classes contain some attributes unique to the sole source databases tracking them (e.g. Easement Holder Name from NCED, Protection Level from NOAA MPA Inventory). The "Combined" feature class integrates all fee, easement and MPA features as the best available national inventory of protected areas in the standard PAD-US framework. In addition to geographic boundaries, PAD-US describes the protection mechanism category (e.g. fee, easement, designation, other), owner and managing agency, designation type, unit name, area, public access and state name in a suite of standardized fields. An informative set of references (i.e. Aggregator Source, GIS Source, GIS Source Date) and "local" or source data fields provide a transparent link between standardized PAD-US fields and information from authoritative data sources. The areas in PAD-US are also assigned conservation measures that assess management intent to permanently protect biological diversity: the nationally relevant "GAP Status Code" and global "IUCN Category" standard. A wealth of attributes facilitates a wide variety of data analyses and creates a context for data to be used at local, regional, state, national and international scales. More information about specific updates and changes to this PAD-US version can be found in the Data Quality Information section of this metadata record as well as on the PAD-US website, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/history/.) Due to the completeness and complexity of these data, it is highly recommended to review the Supplemental Information Section of the metadata record as well as the Data Use Constraints, to better understand data partnerships as well as see tips and ideas of appropriate uses of the data and how to parse out the data that you are looking for. For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/. To find more data resources as well as view example analysis performed using PAD-US data visit, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/resources/. The PAD-US dataset and data standard are compiled and maintained by the USGS Gap Analysis Program, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/ . For more information about data standards and how the data are aggregated please review the “Standards and Methods Manual for PAD-US,” http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/standards/ .

This data set depicts federal lands having restrictions on access or activities -- that is, lands mangaed by the National Park Service, Defense Department, or Energy Department -- in western North America. The data set was created by reformatting and merging state- and province-based ownership data layers originally acquired from diverse sources (including state GAP programs, USBLM state offices and other sources). For each original dataset 3 additional fields, "Pub_Pvt", "CA_OWN", and "SOURCE" were added and populated based on the specific ownership information contained in the source data. The original coverages were then merged based on the "CA_OWN" field. Finally, NPS, DOD, and DOE lands were selected out of the ownership layer. All work was completed in AcMap 8.3. This product and all source data are available online from SAGEMAP: http://sagemap.wr.usgs.gov.

A bug has been logged for the 403 error which is generated when trying to download large datasets through the Download menu. As a workaround, the zipped file geodatabase is available here:https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/d04a50e44fbd4497bb57830b52fe5a2b/dataThe Washington State Land Use coverage was produced from digital county tax parcel layers using Department of Revenue (DOR) two digit land use codes (see; WAC 458-53-030, Stratification of assessment rolls - real property). Land use attribute data has been normalized for all county parcel data to conform to the two digit DOR codes. All county parcel layers are dissolved using the normalized land use code. No county parcel information remains in this data other that what geometry remains from the dissolve process.

The Washington State Parcels Project provides a statewide data set of tax parcels attributes that cover those counties that currently have digital tax parcels. Attribute data has been normalized so that the field names are the same across all counties. The data set contains the tax parcel identification number, situs addresses, the Department of Revenue land use codes, improvement and land values, and a link to the county's assessor's website for parcel information (if it exists).

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The Point layer covers the State of Washington with a variety of different types of locations. The great majority of Points, point type 1, Corner Point, are located at the corners, or angle points, of Legal Description and Parcel areas. (See the metadata for Legal Description and Parcel.) Corner Points can represent differing types of locations such as surveyed monuments, locations calculated by survey, locations digitized from various maps like US Geological Survey quadrangles, and locations that serve no other purpose than to stabilize the endpoint of a Boundary or angle point of a Legal Description or Parcel. Points are the only features in the upland Cadastre that have attributes regarding the source and accuracy of the data. The known accuracy of the data varies dramatically from place to place. The attributes also indicate whether there is a known physical object to look for on the ground. The second type of Point, Geodetic Control Point, point type 2, is not currently populated. The third type of Point, Significant Coordinated Location, point type 3, can be used to store any type of point location that has cadastral significance. At present, the only Significant Coordinated Points in Cadastre are those points along the Washington Pacific Ocean coast which were used by the US Minerals Management Service to calculate the boundary of the State at one marine league from the coast.WA Public Land Survey Points MetadataClick to download

Historic road arcs throughout Pierce County sourced from Washington State Archive and Bureau of Land Management historic maps dated from 1850's to 2010. Please read metadata for additional information (https://matterhorn.co.pierce.wa.us/GISmetadata/pdbplan_historic_roads.html). Any data download constitutes acceptance of the Terms of Use (https://matterhorn.co.pierce.wa.us/Disclaimer/PierceCountyGISDataTermsofUse.pdf).