*KGIS Knox net Where? Mapservices and Themes*
(www.kgis.org)

Aerial Photo Theme - Displays “ortho-rectified” aerial photo images. The aerial photo that is turned on by default is the High Resolution 2003 Color Ortho Photography images. In this theme not turned on are the 2003 MrSid images, 2002 MrSid images collected at 1 ft per pixel resolution by USGS, and 2001 MrSid images.

Basic Theme - Displays basic map information, including addresses, roads, property boundaries, and building footprints.

Census Tracts - Census data is compiled at the block level. The blocks are grouped to form block groups, voting precincts, and tracts.

FEMA DFIRM Flood Areas - Shows the FEMA Floodways, 100YR, 500YR, and Flood Elevation Lines/Text.

Growth Boundaries Theme - Shows the growth boundaries for the City of Knoxville and the Town of Farragut for Knox County


Jurisdiction Boundary - This theme shows boundaries of voting precincts, county commission, city council, school board, state house, and state senate as maintained by MPC and the Election Commission.

LandForms - The Shaded Relief raster image has been added to the kgis.net KNOXnetWhere Intra-net mapping site (as a separate LandForms Theme). The KGIS generated raster image's color scheme highlights the various levels of elevation in Knox County. As the user zooms in the place names display for different land features such as streams, summits, ridges, etc. The KGIS generated raster image color scheme highlights the various levels of elevation in Knox County.

Parks and Greenways Theme - Theme shows the Greenways, City of Knoxville, County, and School parks.

Schools Theme - The theme shows the location and zones for the schools for Knox County.

Soils Theme - Soil types polygons from the NRCS soil classification system. Data generated January 2004.


Subdivision Theme - The subdivisions are collected from the Property Assessor data. The subdivision names are gathered from plats and may not be the same as found at the physical entrance. The boundaries of the subdivision are aligned to the parcel boundaries when the subdivision is digitized. Parcel boundaries may change prior to subdivision updates. The subdivisions are updated quarterly. In older parts of the County, new subdivisions exist within older subdivisions.

Traffic Counts Theme - The City of Knoxville's Engineering Department collects Traffic Counts in the Spring and the Fall at various stations within the City Limits. The count data is listed in a 24 hour period with a start time and measurements every hour. The counts are adjusted based standard traffic count methods. The locations are general and should be with 50 feet of the actual location. The data from MPC and TDOT show daily counts in both directions and for previous years back to 1985.

Transportation - This theme shows the TDOT SmartWay highway cameras locations. Tennessee’s intelligent transportation system is designed to reduce traffic congestion by reducing incident clearance time, increase safety by decreasing the number of secondary accidents, working with the incident management program (HELP), and improving emergency response to traffic situations. TDOT SmartWay uses cameras to monitor the highways from Traffic Management Centers, sensors to gauge traffic flow, large electronic message boards to send urgent traffic notices to drivers along the highways, and the Highway Advisory Radio system.

Watersheds - A watershed is simply an area of land that drains to a stream, lake, or body of water . Consult City Engineering or Public works for permitted watershed information.

Zip Codes - Zip code boundaries based on 2000 Census aligned to KGIS Landbase. Includes file maintained by MPC Addressing which adjusted 2000 census boundaries further based actual zip codes used by Post Office. KGIS merged 1990 zip code data for surrounding counties in the KUB area.

Zoning Theme - A shape feature that represent the MPC recognized Zoning classifications and geographic extents. Zoning boundary changes are based upon subdivision lot boundaries, and therefore do not always correspond with underlying parcel boundaries.