GIS Data for Guilford, Vermont

town line sign at the Massachusetts border Weatherhead Hollow Road

This page lists some of GIS data for the Town of Guilford, Vermont. These data include those developed by the Windham Regional Commission. If you would like to request copies of any of these data, send an email request to the Commission's GIS staff. A great deal of additional VGIS data exist for Guilford! These data are generally produced on a state-wide basis and are available from the Vermont Center for Geographic Information, http://www.vcgi.org. The data layers listed here are only those that are not available from other sources. Many maps of Guilford have been produced by the WRC; visit the Guilford map page for more information.

• Agricultural Land (AGLAND) - Agricultural land in Guilford. Data were originally based on the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's Common Land Unit database. The Guilford Planning Commission provided information to expand this original data layer to include all active agricutural lands in town.

• Cemeteries (CEM) - Cemeteries as points.

• Conservation easements (CONSESMT_NEW) - Conservation easements, extracted from parcel data. Conservation easements include those by the Vermont Land Trust and by the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Data are current to 2007.

• Contours (CONT50) - generalized 50-foot contours derived from USGS DEM data by WRC.

• Critical Conservation Corridors (CRITCORR) - Critical Conservation Corridors--wildlife crossings and undeveloped sections of roads--as located by the Guilford Planning Commission and displayed on the town's Proposed Land Use map (Guilford Town Plan, 2005). Point locations.

• Historic Register Sites (HISTORIC) - Point locations of sites on the State and National Register of Historic Places.

• Parcels (PARCEL [metadata] and TAXMAPZ [metadata] ) - 2001 parcels, as polygons, coded with parcel number, and land hooks. Created by Windham Regional Commission.

• Ridgelines (RIDGELINES) - Important ridgelines, as identified by the Guilford Planning Commission, for land use planning and the Natural Resources map of the 2005 Guilford Town Plan.

• Roads (ROADS) - roads data updated by WRC in 2006.

• One room school houses (SCHOOLHS) - Locations of one room school houses in Guilford. Some of these structures still exist; for others, the file contains the approximate location of the former building.

• Structures (STRUCT) - primary structures, 2004, derived from E911 data but edited by WRC to improve location, coded with estimated construction date ranges (pre-1974, to 1988, to 2001, to 2004), and for some structures, actual construction date.

• Sewer/fire district (SEWERDST) - The Algiers Fire District, which functions as a sewer district for the area surrounding the village of Algiers. The district does not have its own sewage treatment plant; it pumps its sewage to Brattleboro. Note that only a portion of the district is served by sewer.

• Sewer lines (SEWERLIN) - Approximate location of sewer lines in the village of Algiers (part of the Algiers Fire District. The district does not have its own sewage treatment plant; it pumps its sewage to Brattleboro. Note that only a portion of the district is served by sewer.

• Town Boundary (TB) - Guiford town boundary; incorporates changes to the town boundary between Guilford and Vernon.

• Village Center (VILLCTR) - Boundary of the Algiers Village Center district, a designated village center under the Vermont Downtowns Program.

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last updated 4/22/07