Kennebec County Soil & Water Conservation District

“to protect and enhance Maine's soil and water resources by providing educational programs, conservation information and technical assistance to municipalities, schools, landowners and residents of Kennebec County."

GIS Mapping Services

The KCSWCD provides GIS Mapping Services to a wide variety of groups and individuals.  Our GIS data library contains:

 

Hydrography: lakes, streams, etc (USGS, OGIS)

Political: political boundaries, town names, etc (USGS)

Contours: contains contour lines for Maine (USGS)

Soils: digital soil survey data for Maine (USDA, NRCS)

Roads: state, town, private, E911 (OGIS, MDOT)

Customer Defined: point, line, or polygon data representing real-world features can be created to suit a customers needs. For instance forest cover-type boundaries, field boundaries, hiking trials, or farm stand locations can be created for various planning activities.

Data Source: Most data has been acquired through the Maine Office of GIS. Much more data is available for download than listed above. To browse available datasets to see if they meet your needs go to: http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us/catalog/

 

Display maps can be tailored to suit your needs, examples include:
 

Municipal maps w/ aerial photo at customer defined scale
Aquifer protection maps

Forest cover-type maps

Agricultural field maps with soil type overlay

Road inventory maps

Watershed maps

        Click to view a Belgrade Lakes Watershed Map

        warning - it may take a long time to load. it's a big file

 

Take a look at a simple example of the type of forestry mapping service done on North Pond in Rome.        Click to view sample map

 

Price List

For:

Landowners

Municipalities

Foresters

Land Use Planners

Regional Organizations

State Agencies

Consultants

 

For More Information

Contact:

 

Art Grindle

622-7847 ext 3

www.kcswcd.org

21 #Enterprise Dr. Suite #1

Augusta, Maine 04330

 Jeff Fredenburg who has been our GIS mapper for the past years has taken a new position. We wish him good luck with his new career move. Art, who has done some GIS work over the past year's is currently "coming up to speed".

Give him a call or e-mail him with your questions.