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Joe Farrell
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University of Delaware
Delaware Sea Grant Program
700 Pilottown Road
Lewes, DE 19958
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Natural Resources | Cultural Resources | Economic Resources

Data Name Data Steward
Year Published
Online Link
 
Basemap
Watersheds NRCS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD), in cooperation with the University of Delaware, Institute for Public Administration-Water Resources Agency, DGS, EPA, and USGS, in process of certification 2009-05 http://datamil.delaware.gov/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
Roads Delaware Department of Transportation 2009 http://deldot.gov/information/pubs_forms/gis/centerline/index.shtml
Railroads Unknown Consulting Agency/DelDOT   http://datamil.delaware.gov/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
Municipal Boundaries Office of State Planning Coordination (OMB) 2009 http://stateplanning.delaware.gov/info/munbounds/munbounds.shtml
Hydrology
National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) U.S. Geological Survey/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2008-11 http://datamil.delaware.gov/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
2007 Aerials
2007 Orthophotography - 1:2400 scale Funded jointly by the Delaware Office of Management and Budget, DNREC, DelDOT, the U.S. Geological Survey Geospatial Information Office, all three Delaware Counties and the City of Dover. 2007 http://stateplanning.delaware.gov/information/gis_data.shtml
2007 Land Use
2007 Land Use and Land Cover State of Delaware, Office of Management and Budget, Delaware Geographic Data Committee 2008-05 http://stateplanning.delaware.gov/info/lulcdata/2007_lulc.shtml
Protected Lands
Outdoor Resource Inventory DNREC, Division of Parks and Recreation 2009 http://www.destateparks.com/
State Parks DNREC, Division of Parks and Recreation 2009 http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/DNRECeis/
Trails DNREC, Division of Parks and Recreation 2009 http://www.destateparks.com/
Statewide Wetlands Mapping Project (SWMP)
Wetlands DNREC, Wetlands Division 2001 http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/DNRECeis/
Elevation
Sussex County Contours (2' LIDAR) - shown in 4' elevations U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)/NGTOC III 2005-05 http://datamil.delaware.gov/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
Agricultural Lands
State Agricultural Districts Dept. of Agriculture, Land Use Planning & Preservation 2008 http://66.173.241.168/dda/downloads.html
State Agricultural Easements Dept. of Agriculture, Land Use Planning & Preservation 2008 http://66.173.241.168/dda/downloads.html
Ground-Water Recharge Potential          
Statewide Excellent Recharge Areas Delaware Geological Survey/DNREC 2002/2006 http://www.nav.dnrec.delaware.gov/dnreceis/
Statewide Wellhead Protection Areas DNREC, Division of Water Resources 2009 http://www.nav.dnrec.delaware.gov/dnreceis/
Floodplains
FEMA Del-Q3-Flood Federal Emergency Management Agency 2003

http://msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Fema
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Impervious Surfaces        
2007 Impervious Cover State of Delaware, Office of Management and Budget 2007 http://stateplanning.delaware.gov/info/impervious/2007_impervious.shtml
Tax Ditches
Tax Ditches, Boundaries, & Rows DNREC, Division of Soil & Water Conservation 2009 http://www.swc.dnrec.delaware.gov/Drainage/Pages/TaxDitches.aspx