Snapshot of all Interstate, US, West Virginia and County Highway Signs in West Virginia as extracted by Mutcdname from an overall Sign Dataset. Data sets include RouteID, Sign ID Number, County Code, Route Number, Sub Route Number, Sign System, Supplemental Code, Supplemental Description, Direction, Milepoint, Number of Signs, Location, Mutcdname, Mutcode, Mutcdcat, Text, County, PhotoURL, and X Y Coordinates. Data is in NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_17N coordinate system. Data is updated as part of the semiannual WVDOT Road Network release.

Mapping of Federal Grouping of all roads within West Virginia as classified by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Classification includes Principal Arterial Interstates Rural and Urban, Principal Arterial Freeways or Expressways Rural and Urban, Principal Arterial Other Rural and Urban, Minor Arterial Rural and Urban, Major Collector Rural, Collector Urban, Minor Collector Rural and Urban, Local Rural and Urban, and Not Known.

THIS MAP SHOWS THE FOLLOWING:Designated Highways on the state-maintained system. The National Network and Virginia Qualifying Highways include all interstates and certain other highways respectively, with one road-mile of access permissible off these routes to access terminals, fuel, food, rest, and repairs (except in cities and towns, or in Henrico and Arlington Counties where permission is required from those localities). The Virginia Access portion includes certain other primary and secondary routes where no access is allowed off the system. LIMITATIONS & EXCLUSIONS REGARDING TRUCK ROUTES & RESTRICTIONS PROVIDED ON THIS MAP1. The information presented applies only to the highway systems maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Additional STAA access or restrictions may apply in incorporated cities and towns, and on secondary roads (numbered 600 or higher) in Henrico and Arlington Counties.2. Access to, or restrictions on, the indicated routes for the specified vehicles is applicable unless other restrictions or limitations apply due to weight, height, or width; incidents or construction; or as otherwise indicated by signs on the highway.3. To the best of our knowledge the information provided is updated on a weekly basis or as received from Districts. It is the responsibility of the highway user to ensure their information is current and correct.A permit for additional access off the state maintained system may be requested by contacting the Department of Motor Vehicles at (804) 497-7135. For additional access in cities and towns and in Henrico and Arlington Counties contact officials in those localities.

This map provides information on speed limits that are posted on state-maintained roadways in Virginia. Cities and towns set their own speed limits and these are not available to show on the map. Zoom in on the map to display the speed limits. Speed limits exist for all roads however; where this information is not available for mapping, they are not displayed. Most roads where speed limits are not shown are either rural, secondary roads (routes numbered 600 or greater) where a statutory 55 mph speed limit typically applies, or subdivision streets where a statutory 25 mph speed limit usually applies. These statutory speed limits are often are not posted on these roads. Click on any roadway to display the speed limit information.

This map shows high-resolution (1 meter) land cover in the EPA Region 3, covering the parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania outside of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. It contains the following classes: Water, Tree Canopy, Scrub\Shrub, Low Vegetation, Barren, Impervious Structures, Other Impervious, Impervious Roads, Tree Canopy Over Impervious Structures, Tree Canopy Over Other Impervious, and Tree Canopy Over Impervious Roads. Using object-based image analysis mapping techniques, it was mapped from a combination of remote-sensing imagery and GIS datasets, including LiDAR, multispectral imagery, and thematic layers (e.g., roads, building footprints). Draft output was then manually reviewed and edited to eliminate obvious errors of omission and commission. The classification scheme closely follows a similar mapping effort for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; together, maps from the two projects cover the entirety of the EPA Region 3 states. One difference between the projects, however, is that tidal wetlands were mapped in the Chesapeake Bay effort, included as the class Emergent Wetlands, but not in the EPA Region 3 zones outside of the watershed. The map is considered current as of 2020 for West Virginia, 2021 for Virginia, and 2022 for Pennsylvania.

The purpose of this data set is to provide a geographic representation of the location of each state mile marker sign in the Commonwealth, and is to be used in a number of other products and projects. The locations of state mile marker signs on interstates and primary routes are important sources for various traffic studies as well as information for travelers. This GIS layer displays the locations and corresponding information of state mile marker signs. The signs may have been placed close but not exactly at the mile point due to geographic restrictions.Attribute NameContentsFIDInternal Feature NumberShapeFeature GeometryHTRISDEFHTRIS Definition in the Roadway InventoryROADSIDELocations of Mile Marker Posts (Right, Left, or Median)LATITUDEGPS latitude for each Mile Marker point in decimal degreesLONGITUDEGPS longitude for each Mile Marker point in decimal degreesSIGNSTYLE0: Small & Non-MUTCD Compliant, 1: MUTCD Standard (D10-1, D10-2 or D10-3), 2: MUTCD Enhanced (D10-4 or D10-5)SIGNVALUENumeric Value from the Sign Text except NULL, -1, and -2 valuesSIGNTEXTFull Sign TextM_JURISDICMaintenance Jurisdiction Code

The shapefile alignments serve as the authors' best possible representation of the actual trails used as of 1795. Documented and verifiable edit suggestions are welcome! An brief description of the project: During America's colonial period, the trans-Appalachian west, though largely terra incognita to people living on the eastern seaboard and occupied by significant numbers of native peoples, lay open to initial forays by hunters, explorers, surveyors, and settlers. The earliest overland travel routes to traverse western Virginia lands, country that eventually became the Commonwealth of Kentucky, were established between the 1750s and 1780. The primary trails that provided access for emigrants moving into Kentucky and the Northwest Territory's Ohio Valley have been of long-standing historic importance. They include the southeastern gateway where concurrent gaps truncate Cumberland and Pine Mountain; the Indians' Warrior's Path (partially adopted by white pioneers) to the great Bluegrass Shawnee town at Eskippakithiki ; Daniel Boone's Trace to Fort Boonesborough; and the Wilderness Road to Fort Harrod (Harrodsburg) and the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. In 1800, Kentucky's population had reached some 220,000. A large proportion of these individuals-or their ancestors-white and black, free and slave, moved into the state via one or more of these three originary routes (Speed, 1886 [1971], p. 7) Pioneer roads-including the highly publicized and much romanticized trans-west trails to Santa Fe and Oregon-were avenues of migration to developing western frontiers and thus are iconic linear places around which historical fact and contemporary fiction coalesce. Such first generation roads have been associated with the American version of the frontier myth wherein a hero investigates the unknown pristine wilderness, asserts control over it, and appropriates its resources from small groups of savages. Settlers follow the hero's original route and arrogate the new lands (Stoeltje, 1987, p. 239). Given their primacy, some roads, with the passage of time, became stimuli to notions of collective heritage and romanticized concepts of frontier life that are often associated with stalwart frontier folk-Daniel Boone being foremost among them. In Kentucky, contemporary residents depict their heritage in "reenactments," shrines, roadside historic site markers, historic preservation priorities, and state and national historic sites and parks. The state's historical society has erected some 35 roadside markers commemorating pioneer roads, and the state's road-related parks include Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, and Levi Jackson, Fort Boonesborough, and Old Fort Harrod state parks. Our principle objective was to map at the largest practicable scale Kentucky's three primary eighteenth-century frontier trails-the Warrior's Path, Boone's Trace, and the Wilderness Road-and the sites associated with pioneer settlement linked by these roads. We wished to consolidate information from those historical sources that permitted plotting locations accurately. Eighteenth-century explorers' maps and reports, surveyors' notes, travelers' diaries, and other information sources about the western frontier were often locationally incomplete, imprecise, or distorted by present standards. Information from such sources may be adequate to suggest highly generalized route alignments but of limited value for drafting contemporary large scale trail maps. While acknowledging the idiosyncrasies inherent in historical records, we sought to glean from them precise point and route locations and, where warranted and possible, aggregate those locations into an accurate base map. We wished to do this consistently and unambiguously because subtle distinctions in the exact location of historic routes and related settlement sites can affect the nature of the questions one is prompted to pose and the reliability of the conclusions that one can draw about pioneer knowledge, preferences, and behaviors (Elliott and Talbert, 2002, pp. 145-162). A full bibliography is listed on the companion Kentucky Frontier Trails poster, or available upon request.Data Download: https://ky.box.com/v/kymartian-ky-frontier-trailsDisclaimerInformation presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credit is requested. We strongly recommend that data for this Geoportal be acquired directly from a reliable source server and not through other sources that may change the data in some way. While this Geoportal makes every effort to provide accurate and complete information, various data such as names, telephone numbers, etc. may change prior to updating. This Geoportal's administrator welcomes suggestions on how to improve our home page and correct errors. 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This Progress Map for Haul Road #2 (South Fork Coal Company) was taken from the permit renewal documents (Permit O-3022-11 NPDES # WV1026593) for the existing road.
The Map shows construction progress through November, 2022.The permit documents were downloaded from West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's ApplicationXtender website in April of 2023.The PDF map was georeferenced using WV DEP's Mining and Reclamation map service and converted to an image tile package.

This layer, CORH_Wardensville_RoadwayPlans, shows the detailed roadway plan of Corridor H in the Wardensville, WV area. The data associated with this map was obtained (through intermediaries) from the West Virginia Department of Transportation. Source and date:This data was received on March 13, 2022 from Bonni McKeown in Google Earth KMZ format. Our understanding is that it was provided to Bonni via John Sayers, former mayor of Davis, but ultimately came from WV Department of Highways.Content and format:Google Earth KMZ containing engineering plans of the Wardensville section of Corridor H.Purpose:This data was developed in order to provide a comprehensive plan of the Wardensville section of Corridor H. This data specifies the location of each aspect of the road.Processing:The Google Earth KMZ was converted to a geodatabase in ArcMap. The geodatabase was uploaded to ArcGIS Online and published as a feature layer.Symbolization:The following symbolizations are how they appear in the Parsons to Davis online map provided by ABRA.Construction line: light blue polylineSediment pond footprint: dark blue polylineSediment trap footprint: dashed dark blue polylineAsphalt: gray polylineCut: red polylineDitch bot: dashed gray polylineFill: brown polylineGrass: green polylineGuardrail: light gray polylineLane line: dashed yellow polylineShoulder: black polylineOther: purple polyline

This feature collection, UEER_Engineering_FC, describes road construction activities associated with the Upper Elk River project, proposed by the U.S. Forest Service in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.Purpose:This data was created by the U.S. Forest Service staff for use in analysis of the project’s likely environmental impacts.Source & Date: The source data was created in 2020 and downloaded in zipped ESRI shapefile format (UE_Shapefiles.zip) from the USFS project page(Supporting folder). The data was downloaded on September 28 2021, and subsequently updated. The data is current as of December 15, 2021.Processing:ABRA published the source shapefiles from ArcMap as a feature layer. That feature layer was published as a feature collection to allow grouping in Map Viewer Classic. The sub-layers were symbolized using their provided map documents as an example (Scoping folder). UEER_Engineering_FC contains the following data layers:UE_Road_NeedsUE_Proposed_Temp_RoadsUE_ProposedPermanentRoadsSymbology:The list below refers to the data layers above, named as shown in the Upper Elk River Project map provided by ABRA.Road Reconstruction: blue polylineProposed Temporary Roads: dashed red polylineProposed Permanent Roads: dark blue polylineMore information can be found on ABRA’s project description page, hosted by the National Forest Integrity Project. Additional detailed information is available on the USFS project page.

Purpose:This feature layer describes water quality sampling data performed at several operating coal mines in the South Fork of Cherry watershed, West Virginia.Source & Data:Data was downloaded from WV Department of Environmental Protection's ApplicationXtender online database and EPA's ECHO online database between January and April, 2023.There are five data sets here: Surface Water Monitoring Sites, which contains basic information about monitoring sites (name, lat/long, etc.) and NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites, which contains similar information about outfall discharges surrounding the active mines. Biological Assessment Stations (BAS) contain similar information for pre-project biological sampling. NOV Summary contains locations of Notices of Violation received by South Fork Coal Company from WV Department of Environmental Protection. The Quarterly Monitoring Reports table contains the sampling data for the Surface Water Monitoring Sites, which actually goes as far back as 2018 for some mines. Parameters of concern include iron, aluminum and selenium, among others.A relationship class between Surface Water Monitoring Sites and the Quarterly Monitoring Reports allows access to individual sample results.Processing:Notices of Violation were obtained from the WV DEP AppXtender database for Mining and Reclamation Article 3 (SMCRA) Permitting, and Mining and Reclamation NPDES Permitting. Violation data were entered into Excel and loaded into ArcGIS Pro as a CSV text file with Lat/Long coordinates for each Violation. The CSV file was converted to a point feature class.Water quality data were downloaded in PDF format from the WVDEP AppXtender website. Non-searchable PDFs were converted via Optical Character Recognition, so that data could be copied. Sample results were copied and pasted manually to Notepad++, and several columns were re-ordered. Data was grouped by sample station and sorted chronologically. Sample data, contained in the associated table (SW_QM_Reports) were linked back to the monitoring station locations using the Station_ID text field in a geodatabase relationship class.Water monitoring station locations were taken from published Drainage Maps and from water quality reports. A CSV table was created with station Lat/Long locations and loaded into ArcGIS Pro. It was then converted to a point feature class.Stream Crossings and Road Construction Areas were digitized as polygon feature classes from project Drainage and Progress maps that were converted to TIFF image format from PDF and georeferenced.The ArcGIS Pro map - South Fork Cherry River Water Quality, was published as a service definition to ArcGIS Online.Symbology:NOV Summary - dark blue, solid pointLost Flats Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineLost Flats Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineLost Flats NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineBlue Knob Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineBlue Knob Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineBlue Knob NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineBlue Knob Biological Assessment Stations: Data Available - medium green point, black outlineBlue Knob Biological Assessment Stations: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium green outlineRocky Run Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineRocky Run Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineRocky Run NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outlineRocky Run Biological Assessment Stations: Data Available - medium green point, black outlineRocky Run Biological Assessment Stations: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium green outlineRocky Run Stream Crossings: turquoise blue polygon with red outlineRocky Run Haul Road Construction Areas: dark red (40% transparent) polygon with black outlineHaul Road No 2 Surface Water Monitoring Sites: Data Available - medium blue point, black outlineHaul Road No 2 Surface Water Monitoring Sites: No Data Available - no-fill point, thick medium blue outlineHaul Road No 2 NPDES Outlet Monitoring Sites - orange point, black outline