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Municipal Boundaries and Wards Updates & New Classification Field

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce we have updated Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Wards based on the below. *We added a new field to the Municipal Boundary layer that contains the classification of all incorporated municipalities. More information regarding city classification can be found here and in the GIS metadata. This data will be […]

Municipal Boundaries and Wards Updates & New Population Fields

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce we have updated Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Wards based on the below. *We have added a new field to Municipal Wards which contains the 2020 Census population per Ward as reported by the City or their representative. Additionally, city population totals reported by the US Census Bureau […]

School Board Zones & School Districts Update

We have updated School Board Zones for the new zones in Bryant and Marvell-Elaine School Districts. We also made corrections to the UNIFIED value for Searcy County School District along with minor geometry changes in both datasets. We will continue to update new school board zones as we receive them. Users can download School Districts […]

New Justice of the Peace (Quorum Court) Districts

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce the publication of revised Justice of the Peace districts based on redistricting efforts throughout the state. A.C.A. § 14-14-403 requires county board of elections commissioners in each county to apportion the county into quorum court districts based on the last federal decennial census. A very special thank you […]

School Board Zones & School Districts Update

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce the publication of revised School Board Zones based on redistricting efforts throughout the state. A.C.A. § 6-13-1417 requires school districts to file a digital map detailing the election zone boundaries in compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Additional School Districts will be added later as new […]

Municipal Boundaries and Wards Updates

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce we have updated Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Wards based on the below. City Year Ordinance Court Order Type Ward Update Alma 1995 95-8 UNK Boundary Correction Yes Bentonville 2021 2021-241 2021-27 100% Yes Bonanza 2021 New wards – redistricted Conway 7/13/1905 O-21-009 CC-21-009 100% Yes Cotter 2021 […]

Municipal Boundaries and Wards Updates

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce we have updated Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Wards based on the below. City Year Ordinance Court Order Type Ward Update Alma 2021 NA NA Wards Wards correction Bentonville 2021 2021-108 2021-01 100% Yes Cabot 2021 38 of 2020 C-2020-229 100% Yes Centerton 2021 2021-69 2021-26 100% Yes […]

Elections Precinct Updates

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that we have updated Election Precincts. These updates represent corrections to errors found in the City Wards boundaries for the cities of El Dorado (Union County) and Mountain View (Stone County). Users can download the dataset here and view online here.

Address Points, Road Centerlines, ZIP+4 & Address Locator Updates

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that we have updated the SITUS Address Point File (APF) and the Arkansas Centerline File (ACF) on the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) for the following Counties: Benton, Howard, Prairie & Van Buren. As always we’d like to thank all those involved in the critical  maintenance of these datasets. […]

2021 Arkansas State and House Redistricting District Maps & Data Publication

The Department of Transformation and Shared Services (TSS) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has released the new state legislative district boundaries as part of redistricting efforts, in both PDF and interactive map form. Redistricting occurs every ten years, aligning with the U.S. Census data release to ensure fairness and equality regarding state legislative representation. In October, […]