Geospatial Data Library
The Kentucky Geological Survey and other state and federal agencies have electronic maps and GIS data that you can download for your use. The KGS GIS data are in ArcView shapefiles (registered by ESRI). The files were zipped using the WinZip utility. All the KGS datasets, unless explicitly noted, are in latitude and longitude, decimal degrees, NAD 83.
Kentucky Geography Network: Electronic warehouse of maps and GIS data from the Kentucky Geography
Network.
Benchmark Data : Kentucky Basemap with hotlink to NGS benchmark database.
Map Imagery : Scanned, georeferenced topographic, geologic, and other maps.
Elevation Data : Digital elevation models at various scales.
Political and physical boundary
data: Maps (coverages) showing political boundaries, map indexes, regions,
area development districts (ADD's), grids.
Geology data
: Geologic coverages of the state, oil and gas wells, coal
exploration sites.
Hydrology data
: Hydrologic and watershed coverages, water wells, karst dye traces, wetlands, NHD streams
in Kentucky.
Transportation data
: Roads and highways in Kentucky.
Soils data:
Soils in Kentucky from the NRCS (National Resources Conservation
Service).
County
basemap data: From ESRI, TIGER/Line® files--roads, railroads, rivers, lakes,
political boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc., covering the entire
United States by county or state.
Basemap data: 100k DLG's. Digital line graphs. What
is a DLG? (USGS), index map, help site for SDTS
download.
Converter
to convert latitude/longitude in DMS to decimal degrees.
Contact Information: If you have any questions regarding the GIS information provided by the Kentucky Geological Survey, please contact Dan Carey, telephone (859) 257-5500, fax (859) 257-1147, Kentucky Geological Survey, 228 Mining and Mineral Resources Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0107.
Other sites related to Kentucky GIS: