Arkansas GIS Office

We are proud to announce that our TSS Office of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) increased its Geospatial Maturity Assessment Grade from a B+ to an A-. You can see the report below. Regarding Orthoimagery Leaf-on, Arkansas has a policy that any digital orthoimagery acquired by the state must be leaf-off. In a state with a lot of deciduous forest canopy, leaf-off better supports county assessors, public safety, 911, etc.

Kudos to the team at GIS and all of our agency partners for their efforts! This increase is a testament to all of their hard work.

We are so proud of our Survey Team. They are on a mission to be the national leader in the preservation of the State’s public land survey system.

The State’s GIS community unites at this event every other year. We look forward to being there and participating.

Join us in Jonesboro!

https://symposium.argisusers.org

Arkansans who are interested in finding where your home address is compared to new election Districts like Justice of Peace Districts, School Board Zones or Municipal Wards we’ve got a resource for you. Our Find My Districts map is updated and located here: https://gis.arkansas.gov/viewer.php

This resource is very easy to use. Enter your address like this [ 501 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR, 72201 ] and the system will navigate the map to your location. Or, if for some reason the system cannot locate your address, you can also navigate using the + or - button to zoom in or out, and then click the map to drag it to your area and continuing zooming in to your location. Once there click your spot on the map. A District Info box will list all the election districts for that location. The District Info box will list both the new House and Senate Districts that will be used for the 2022 general elections and the House or Senate member in the current districts that remain in effect until the election.

Arkansas GIS Users Forum Celebrates GIS Day FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Little Rock, AR — October 29, 2020 The Arkansas GIS Users Forum will celebrate GIS Day on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. While global circumstances require GIS Day to be largely virtual this year, the Arkansas GIS Users Forum will celebrate innovative applications of geographi...

56 days and counting! Please ask everyone you know if they completed their Census? If they have not give them the number below to call in their response. 1-844-330-2020

We'd like to congratulate our friend Alex Harper and Central Arkansas Water for being recognized for their use of GIS data and technology to provide safe drinking water for the Central Arkansas region. https://www.waterworld.com/water-utility-management/asset-management/article/14174159/esri-gis-touches-every-aspect-of-central-arkansas-water

GIS Touches Every Aspect of Central Arkansas Water ESRI’s ArcGIS

We updated some Address Points, Centerlines and we added/updated a few other datasets as well. See details at https://tinyurl.com/vhqeqxs and https://tinyurl.com/rfnhkhn

We are very proud to share this news. The awarded a B+ to for its level of maturity. Arkansas joined 11 states for the highest overall grade. AR GIS received an A+ in coordination, which measures how well the state coordinates GIS activities across all levels of government. The full report is located at https://www.nsgic.org/geospatial-maturity-assessment

Everyone counts!. Community leaders here's your chance to make it happen. https://arcounts.org/census-summit/

Governor Asa Hutchinson signed the Public Safety Act of 2019 into law today. Lead sponsors of the Act Representative Michelle Gray and Senator Jason Rapert were at his side. County officials from across the state also filled the room. This Act marks the beginning of major 911 reform by establishing a new 911 Board, to provide leadership on the implementation of Next Generation 911 capabilities in Arkansas. At the core of these systems will be GIS data provided by City, County and State levels. The Arkansas GIS Office looks forward to playing a significant role in this implementation.

Thanks NWS's Tabitha Clarke, Dan Koch, Jeff Hood, & Jim Reynolds, for the great tour and GIS presentation today! My office couldn't have better folks for partners.

AGIO & AR Land Survey staff visited the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Little Rock, AR today to discuss GIS products.

Arkansas GIS Office Director Shelby Johnson gave a presentation to the Advanced Communications and Information Technology Committee today about our interactive maps. AGIO works hard to continually post updates for our users to keep boundary data current.

USGS has real-time stream flow at this link: https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=real&r=ar

Brand new published for the first time Natural Vegetation/Wetlands from the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. Details below!

Potential Natural Vegetation & Wetlands | Arkansas GIS Office This compilation of information on Arkansas wetlands includes data and reports generated for five major projects. Although they were conducted to address different objectives and funded by various sponsors, all five are conceptually consistent and provide complementary descriptions of Arkansas wetla...

Address Points, ZIP+4 and ASDI Locator Updates | Arkansas GIS Office

We updated address points, ZIP+4s and the ASDI Composite Locator today..see below for details!

gis.arkansas.gov Nov 16 2018 Address Points, ZIP+4 and ASDI Locator Updates 2018, address points Comments Off on Address Points, ZIP+4 and ASDI Locator Updates The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that we have updated the SITUS Address Point File (APF) on the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI). Th...

Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) Data Updates | Arkansas GIS Office

Today we updated several Arkansas Department of Transportation datasets see below for additional details!

gis.arkansas.gov Nov 07 2018 Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) Data Updates Uncategorized Comments Off on Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) Data Updates The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that we have updated the below datasets on the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure on behalf...

National Hydrography Dataset Update | Arkansas GIS Office

We updated the National Hydrography Dataset on ASDI. For additional details see below!

gis.arkansas.gov Nov 06 2018 National Hydrography Dataset Update Uncategorized Comments Off on National Hydrography Dataset Update The Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce that the National Hydrography Dataset has been updated on the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure(ASDI) on behalf of the Arkansas Departme...

Municipal Boundaries Update | Arkansas GIS Office

Over two years ago the Office launched a major outreach effort in partnership with the Arkansas Municipal League and Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin to improve the accuracy of the municipal boundaries as our State gets ready for the 2020 Census. Cities across Arkansas have made numerous boundary changes, anticipating their populations will grow in 2020. We've been committed to ensuring those changes are incorporated into the 2020 census block boundary and we are not letting up. Today we announced another small round of municipal boundary changes. http://gis.arkansas.gov/2018/10/15/municipal-boundaries-update-9/

gis.arkansas.gov Oct 15 2018 Municipal Boundaries Update Annexations, Boundaries, Municipal Boundaries, Municipal Boundary Changes Municipal Boundaries Comments Off on Municipal Boundaries Update We updated the municipal boundary and municipal boundary changes layers based on the following: City Year Date effective....

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Central Arkansas Astronomical Society

Have you also heard it's going to be a pretty fall here in the Natural State? Sure hope so--and maybe this map will help for planning a trip.

There is a mistaken belief that the only thing that astronomers do is look up at other worlds beyond our own. Not true, most of us are just as interested in the many wondrous things that can be seen right here on our very own rock in space as it moves around our local star. And it’s that very same motion around the Sun, combined with the fact that our planet is tilted upon its axis, that we get to experience seasons and all the splendid things that come with it. I think that a little knowledge of astronomy can offer you a picture of nature on a larger scale than most people are generally accustomed to.

Joshua Stevens - 'Squatch Watch: 92 Years of Bigfoot Sightings in the US and Canada

BOLO: The Squatch!
http://www.joshuastevens.net/visualization/squatch-watch-92-years-of-bigfoot-sightings-in-us-and-canada/

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Understanding and Using ACS Data: What All Data Users Need to Know

The new American Community Survey Handbook is here! If you map Census ACS data, you should read this. It'll help you, in part, to determine which data is most reliable. This is especially important for smaller geographies in rural areas.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance/handbooks/general.html?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

census.gov This handbook helps general data users learn how to access and use ACS data and provide concrete examples of how ACS data can answer real-world questions.

An Opportunity to Make Every Vote Count

A good little article about GIS and elections. For more detail, click on the NSGIC hyperlinks to see how GIS leaders are supporting geo-enabled elections.

"We have time before the next round of redistricting to put the proper infrastructure and statutory authority in place to mitigate manual-entry errors like those that occurred last year in Virginia. And there is an additional benefit to these improvements: A more accurate process may uncover old errors. In Fluvanna County, Va., for example, when GIS was used to confirm county borders officials found that a couple had been assigned to, and voting in, the wrong district for almost 40 years."

http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-election-districts-voter-placement-gis.html

governing.com Manual placement of voters in districts is a recipe for error. The solution is to enhance the use of GIS in the process.

Data Driven Transportation

Check out what our friends at ArDOT have to say about GIS. We share their sentiments--GIS has the ability to increase transparency and efficiency, among other things. As practitioners, we all aim to learn more about this amazing and ever-changing technology. Plus, if you didn't already know, GIS is fun to do! We're also looking forward to seeing where GIS will lead Arkansas next.

https://geographic-information-system.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/data-driven-transportation-nid-26833-cid-52.html

geographic-information-system.cioreview.com Data Driven Transportation By Scott E. Bennett, Director, Arkansas Department of Transportation - Geographically, Arkansas has it all.  Across the state, you can experience the diversity of the Boston Mountains, Arkansas...

Can you believe we've made over 140 updates to the municipal boundary changes layer for historic boundary changes? That's 140+ annexations from 1890 to 2014 that needed to be documented and mapped here at the AGISO. And yes, you read that right--1890! Overall, we've made over 350+ changes since taking on this important task!

Click the link to see the 1890 document. Looks like a Joseph T. Robinson signed it---surely that's not THE Joe T. Robinson!http://gis.arkansas.gov/docs/annexations/maynard_incorporation_1890.pdf

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Election Precincts Update | Arkansas GIS Office

New election precincts data! A very special thanks goes out to our County Clerks and the SoS for all of their hard work in completing this review. We continue to invite users and county officials to review this data as we run up to the 2020 Census. Let's let Arkansas' GIS data shine like a diamond!



https://gis.arkansas.gov/2018/07/23/election-precincts-update-3/

gis.arkansas.gov Jul 23 2018 Election Precincts Update 2018, Boundaries, Census 2020, election, precinct, Redistricting, VTD - Census Comments Off on Election Precincts Update The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Office is pleased to announce a major update to the election precinct boundaries that are n...