New Hanover County GIS Data

Feature Data Layers obtained 1999

The following county-wide feature data layers are available for New Hanover County. The data are in Arc/Info export format, State Plane 1983/feet. Detailed attribute table descriptions, including data dictionaries, may be found in the online data documentation (93k, MS Word).

NOTE: The New Hanover County 1999-2000 Official Tax Map Parcel Search Engine is also available on CD-ROM.

Digital Orthophotos

As of 1999, black and white New Hanover County orthophoto flights had been most recently done in February 1998. Most of the county is available in 1 foot resolution (200' scale); the remainder of the county is available at 2 foot (400' scale) See below:

The orthophotos are available in the following formats:

• Original BILs: 25 mb tiles on ten CD-ROM's
• Individual MrSID files at 11:1 compression: one CD-ROM
• 1 foot county-wide mosaic at 10:1 compression: one CD-ROM
• A single combined 1'/2' countywide mosaic at 29:1 compression: one CD-ROM

Two shapefiles (index200 for 200' and index400 for 400') indicating image extent and CD-ROM number are available on the Geodata server at http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/localgov/NewHanover_County/1999/meta. The shapefiles are in State Plane 1983/feet.

Public download orthophotos: The New Hanover County GIS Download Site allows download of aerial photography from 1949, 1956, 1966, 1981, 1998, 2002, and 2006 aerials in .sid format.

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