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Clean Water Act Section 303(d) Impaired Waters Data Update

On behalf of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) the Arkansas GIS Office has updated the Clean Waters Act Section 303(d) Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Load Limit data for the year 2016. The EPA’s 303(d) Program assists states, territories and authorized tribes in submitting lists of impaired waters and developing TMDLs. A TMDL […]

Address Point File Updated – Multiple Counties

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that for the first time the Clay County Address Points have been published and are available for download from the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI). The addition of Clay County brings the State’s total Address Point File to 1,485,539 total addresses, and could not have been accomplished […]

NHD/WBD Update

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce an update to the  National Hydrography Dataset and Watershed Boundary Dataset.  Also an additional housekeeping item is the renaming the Watershed Boundary products from Basins HUC # to WBD HU # which will hopefully make finding them a little easier. Please note that for the time being we […]

Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) Upgrade

We just completed a major upgrade to the GIS platform at gis.arkansas.gov. Most of this upgrade was designed to improve system performance and reduce operating cost. We made the mistake of not providing advanced notice of this planned upgrade. If you haven’t noticed any issues then we did it correctly. If you did encounter problems […]

Municipal Boundary Update

We have updated the Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Boundary Changes layers based on the following 2010 and 2017 annexations. Little Rock – 2010 (geometry correction) Siloam Springs – 2017 Users may access and download the Municipal Boundaries data set here: http://gis.arkansas.gov/product/municipal-boundaries-polygon/. Users who wish to identify the specific areas of boundary change should consult the Municipal […]

Arkansas Centerline File (ACF) Update – 14 Counties Updated

The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce an update to the Arkansas Road Centerline File (ACF) on the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI). This update of 14 counties represents the second release of road data processed in a joint effort by counties, the Arkansas GIS Office, and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department […]

Municipal Boundary Update

We updated the Municipal Boundaries and Municipal Boundaries Change layers based on the following 2017 annexations and historical annexations. Cabot – 1995 Damascus – 2017 Hoxie – 2007 Pocahontas – 2017 Walnut Ridge – 2001, 2007 Wynn – 2017 Users may access and download the Municipal Boundaries data set here: http://gis.arkansas.gov/product/municipal-boundaries-polygon/ Users who wish to identify […]

Municipal Boundary Update

In a continued effort to review historical city annexations and add them into our municipal boundaries data, we have updated the boundary polygons for the following cities based on reported annexations from years 2001, 2015, 2016, 2017. Benton Bentonville Dyer Garfield Hot Springs Morrison Bluff Springdale Walnut Ridge West Fork Wynne Users may access and download the […]

Municipal Boundary Updates – Craighead County (multiple cities)

In a continued effort to review historical city annexations and add them into our municipal boundaries data, we have updated the boundary polygons for the following cities in Craighead County based on reported annexations from years 2000, 2001, 2013, 2015, and 2016. Bay Bono Caraway Jonesboro Lake City Users may access and download the Municipal Boundaries data […]

Geostor/ASDI Locator Service Survey

In an effort to improve the Geocode Services that are hosted by the Arkansas GIS Office, we are requesting information on current use cases to ensure that the transition to the new geocode service has the least amount of negative impact…aka we don’t want to break your applications, but we may have to. If breaking […]