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Lee County GIS Data

Feature Data Layers obtained Dec. 2000

Lee County data was acquired in ArcInfo coverage format, State Plane feet NAD 83. This data was released 12/11/00 (11/28/00 date stamp for the parcels shapefile) by Sanford City Dept. of Community Development. ArcView legend files (.avl) are included as well as a leecounty.apr file for ArcView use.

Feature Data

Data Layer	Description	Shapefile Size (mb)	Brief Metadata
broadway	Broadway Town Limits	0.03	broadway.txt
driveway	Driveway Centerlines	2.0	driveway.txt
etj	Extraterritorial Jurisdictions	0.07	etj.txt
footprints	Footprints	1.0	footprints.txt
leecounty	Land Use (Bogue Banks)	1.5	leecounty.txt
mapindex	Orthophoto Map Index	1.5	mapindex.txt
parcel	Parcel Boundaries	88.6	parcel.txt
parceltax	Parcel Boundaries (shapefile)	19.3	parceltax.txt
railroad	Parcels (w/Owners database)	0.07	railroad.txt
residence	Homes, Mobile Homes, Hydrants, Gates, Outbuildings	21.4	residence.txt
sanford	Roads (w/addresses)	0.02	sanford.txt
streets	Street Centerlines	2.8	streets.txt
waterponds	Water Ponds and Lakes	1.0	waterponds.txt
waterstreams	Water lines (West)	1.1	waterstreams.txt

Orthophotos

Obtained from the Lee County Land Records Dept. in Feb. 2001. As of December 2000, digital orthophoto flights were done continuously, with one quarter of the county flown each year. Rural areas were done at '400 scale. Developed areas were done at 200' and 100' foot scale. The original data is in BIL format data is available on 13 CD-ROMs. Data availability by image resolution is shown below:

Lee County Orthophotos

Image index shapefiles (lee100.shp [100'], lee200.shp [200'], lee400.shp [400'], lee1200.shp [100'/200' overlap], lee1400.shp [100'/400' overlap], lee2400.shp [200'/400' overlap], leeall.shp [merged, overlapping]) for each resolution are available on the Geodata server at http://geodata.lib.ncsu.edu/localgov/Lee_County/2000/meta/ (data in State Plane 1983/feet). An online clickable map index is also available.

The phase areas for periodic flights are shown below:

Lee County Orthophotos: Phases

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