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  1. Title: Scenic Byways, Wisconsin 2015

    • Line data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer represents scenic byways in Wisconsin in 2015. The Scenic Byways program is a cooperative effort between local communities and WisDOT to identify and promote state highway corridors with scenic and/or historical attributes that provide travelers an enjoyable visual, educational and recreational experience.The Scenic Byways program is similar but separate from WisDOT’s Rustic Roads program. Typically, Rustic Roads are lightly-traveled town or county roads that offer bikers, hikers and other travelers a leisurely opportunity to see native terrain and wildlife in a rural setting.In contrast, a scenic byway is a numbered state highway system route (other than interstate highways), at least 30 miles long, that offers travelers numerous scenic and/or historical attributes whose promotion can serve to boost a region’s attractiveness as a tourist destination.

  2. Title: Coastal Zone, Wisconsin 2013

    • Polygon data
    • 2013
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    Summary: [This shapefile represents the boundary of the coastal zone of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin coastal zone is defined as the 15 counties that border the Great Lakes. The coastal zone includes both the land area and the water area in the Great Lakes extending to the state line.]

  3. Title: Lighthouses (Great Lakes Circle Tour), Wisconsin 2013

    • Point data
    • 2013
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    Summary: This data layer represents lighthouse locations on the Great Lakes, within the state of Wisconsin.

  4. Title: Lake Michigan Circle Tour Route, 2007

    • Line data
    • 2007
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    Summary: [This dataset represents the Lake Michigan Circle Tour route in ESRI shapefile format. It was created in 2007 from the descriptions of the route on the WisconsinHighways.org, MichiganHighways.org, and Great Lakes Information Network Lake Michigan Circle Tour (http://www.great-lakes.net/tourism/circletour/michigan/) web sites . The dataset was created by downloading TIGER 2000 files from the ESRI and extracting the Circle Tour route.]

  5. Title: Lake Superior Circle Tour Route, 2007

    • Line data
    • 2007
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    Summary: [This dataset represents the Lake Superior Circle Tour route in ESRI shapefile format. It was created in 2007 from the descriptions of the route on the WisconsinHighways.org, MichiganHighways.org, and Great Lakes Information Network Lake Michigan Circle Tour (http://www.great-lakes.net/tourism/circletour/superior/) web sites . The dataset was created by downloading TIGER 2000 files from the ESRI and the Ontraio Road Network from the Geography Network Canada and extracting the Circle Tour route.]

  6. Title: General Land Office Survey Records Database (WIGLOSR), Wisconsin 2020

    • Mixed
    • 2020
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    Summary: Between 1832 and 1866, contractors to the United States government surveyed the largely unsettled lands of what today constitute the State of Wisconsin for the purpose of subdividing and selling land to settlers moving west from the eastern states and from Europe. The survey was carried out in a systematic manner, with survey posts set every half mile along a grid of one mile square blocks of land called sections. The Mladenoff Lab at UW-Madison digitized the entire set of field notes for the state of Wisconsin and compiled a database of biological and ecological information contained in the notes. Read the documentation: https://www.sco.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WIGLOSR_Database_Documentation_20.10.pdf for a brief historical overview and description of the US public lands survey system (PLSS), its application to Wisconsin, an outline of the database and its contents, and perhaps most importantly, a review of caveats and limitations to the use of the data. Although this was a land survey rather than a botanical survey or inventory, the field notes recorded by the surveyors contain abundant vegetative information that represent the most complete picture we have today of how the landscape and flora of Wisconsin appeared before widespread European-American settlement and the accompanying clearing, logging, and agricultural activities. The database is of enormous use to ecologists, foresters, planners, and land managers who are interested in the pre-European landscapes of Wisconsin and the subsequent changes to the land, but they must be approached with care and a full understanding of the inherent biases contained within the survey that will affect how the data are used. See the documentation for more info. The database contains over 300,000 records with information about 180,000 survey points, 450,000 individual trees, and 23,000 ecological boundaries between ecosystems, all of which can be explored and analyzed using conventional statistical methods. The data are provided for download in the form a geodatabase and geopackage. If you would like access to the postgres database, contact Hayden Elza at elza@wisc.edu for more information.

  7. Title: Addresses Grant County, WI 2025

    • Point data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  8. Title: PLSS Grant County, WI 2025

    • Point data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents public land survey system (PLSS) corners for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  9. Title: Roads Grant County, WI 2025

    • Line data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents roads for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  10. Title: Zoning (General) Grant County, WI 2025

    • Polygon data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents general zoning for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  11. Title: Addresses Grant County, WI 2024

    • Point data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  12. Title: PLSS Grant County, WI 2024

    • Point data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents public land survey system (PLSS) corners for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  13. Title: Roads Grant County, WI 2024

    • Line data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents roads for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  14. Title: Zoning (General) Grant County, WI 2024

    • Polygon data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents general zoning for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  15. Title: Addresses Grant County, WI 2023

    • Point data
    • 2023
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2023.

  16. Title: PLSS Grant County, WI 2023

    • Point data
    • 2023
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    Summary: This data represents public land survey system (PLSS) corners for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2023. [The E4 PLSS database, part of a multi-year effort, was created as a sub-project of the greater Version 8 Statewide Parcel Map Database Project (V8 Project), a collaboration between the Wisconsin Land Information Program, the State Cartographer’s Office, and county data contributors. More information about the Statewide Parcel Map Initiative can be found here.The E8 database contains a collection of all uniquely identifiable local-level PLSS data available in digital format, and aggregates that data into a standardized schema and format. It also includes section, quarter-section, and quarter-quarter-section level polygons. The construction of the PLSS corner locations contained within the database relies on the local level coordinate information. This unique aspect of the database, allows for an accurate representation of the on-the-ground location of the PLSS corners.Please complete the feedback survey form.Schema documentation can be found here.]

  17. Title: Roads Grant County, WI 2023

    • Line data
    • 2023
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    Summary: This data represents roads for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2023.

  18. Title: Zoning (General) Grant County, WI 2023

    • Polygon data
    • 2023
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    Summary: This data represents general zoning for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2023.

  19. Title: Addresses Grant County, WI 2022

    • Point data
    • 2022
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2022.

  20. Title: Roads Grant County, WI 2022

    • Line data
    • 2022
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    Summary: This data represents roads for Grant County, Wisconsin in 2022.

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