Chatham County GIS Data
Feature Data Layers obtained April 5, 2000
The following county-wide feature data layers are available for Chatham County. The data are in shapefile format, State Plane 1983/feet.
Feature Data
| Shapefile | Description | File Size (mb) | Brief Metadata |
|---|---|---|---|
| buildings | Building Footprints | 27.66 | buildings.txt |
| bypass | US-64 Bypass | 0.005 | bypass.txt |
| electric | Electric Grid | 0.077 | electric.txt |
| stations | Fire Stations | 0.006 | stations.txt |
| districts | Fire Districts | 0.201 | districts.txt |
| index | Orthophoto Index | 0.69 | index.txt |
| index400 | 400' Orthophoto Index | 0.63 | index400.txt |
| cary | Cary Municapal Boundaries | 0.01 | cary.txt |
| silretj | Siler City Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Boundaries | 0.017 | silretj.txt |
| pittetj | Pittsboro Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Boundaries | 0.01 | pittetj.txt |
| muni97 | 1997 Municapal Boundaries | 0.031 | muni97.txt |
| cntyparc | Parcel Boundaries (polygon) | 230.3 | cntyparc.txt |
| cntyparl | Parcel Boundaries (line) | 75.84 | cntyparl.txt |
| chatrail | Railroads | 0.016 | chatrail.txt |
| roads | Roads | 6.35 | roads.txt |
| school | Schools | 0.007 | school.txt |
| schldist | School Districts | 0.05 | schldist.txt |
| highschool | High Scools | 0.034 | highschool.txt |
| soils | Soils | 0.268 | soils.txt |
| township | Townships | 0.074 | township.txt |
| congress | Congressional Boundaries | 0.046 | congress.txt |
| voteprcnt | Voting Precincts | 0.173 | voteprcnt.txt |
| votepoll | Voting Polling Places | 0.006 | votepoll.txt |
| water | Water Lines | 0.719 | water.txt |
| sewer | Sewer Lines | 0.243 | sewer.txt |
| watershed | Watersheds | 0.329 | watershed.txt |
| zoning | Zoning | 0.166 | zoning.txt |
| zone-pt | Watersheds | 0.008 | zone-pt.txt |
Digital Orthophotos
As of 2000, digital orthophoto flights were last done in 1997. Orhophotos and parcel data were done by ATD. The entire county was flown at '400 scale. Developed areas were flown at 200' and 100' foot scale. The original data is in BIL format data is available on 17 CD-ROMs. MrSID compressed versions (10:1) are available as individual files and as mosaics. Data availability by image resolution is shown below:
Image index shapefiles (index100.shp, index200.shp, and index400.shp) for each resolution are available on the Geodata server at https://proxying.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php?url=http://gisdata.lib.ncsu.edu/localgov/Chatham_County/2000/Vector/Disk3/ (data in State Plane 1983/feet).
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