The Benton County GIS Department provides products and services to other agencies and to the general public.
Products and services includes:
- Digital data - the base upon which all other GIS products are built
- Spatial analysis - a means to combine data from many sources to solve problems
- Hardcopy maps - plotted with unlimited combinations of data layers at any scale
- Reports - primarily the result of a query or spatial analysis
- Web Mapping - base maps available for public access and various Benton County departments
- Training - provided to the staff of the various Benton County departments
- Customer Service - prompt and courteous assistance to the public and to all clients
Specific data currently includes:
- Parcel Boundaries with Assessment Data - (Excludes Hanford)
- Road Centerlines, Including Mileposting and Address Range Values for County Maintained
- City Limit and Urban Growth Area Boundaries
- Point Addressing for Rural Areas
- Access Easements from Recorded Short Plats
- Township/Range/Section Lines
- Contours
- Digital copies of recorded Short Plats, Plats, Surveys and Condominiums
- County Comprehensive Land Use Plan
- Election District Boundaries
- Taxing District Boundaries
- Landmarks and Services
- County Zoning
Aerial Photos and Orthoimagery:
· 2016 Digital Orthophotos
o Urban Areas only
· 2015 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Medium resolution and medium accuracy
· 2014 Digital Orthophotos
o Urban Areas only
· 2013 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Medium resolution and medium accuracy
· 2012 Digital Orthophotos
o High resolution and High accuracy
· 2011 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Medium resolution and medium accuracy
· 2010 Digital Orthophotos
o City of Kennewick only
o Very high resolution and very high accuracy
· 2009 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Medium resolution and medium accuracy
· 2008 Digital Orthophotos**
o High resolution and high accuracy
· 2007 Digital Orthophotos
o City of Kennewick only
o Very high resolution and very high accuracy
· 2006 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Medium resolution and medium accuracy
· 2005 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Low resolution and low accuracy
· 2004 Digital Orthophotos**
o High resolution and high accuracy
· 2003 Digital NAIP Orthophotos*
o Low resolution and low accuracy
· 2002 Aerial Photographs
o Low resolution scans
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1998 Orthophotos**
o Low resolution and high accuracy
o Higher resolution available in select areas
· 1997 Landsat Images
o Low resolution and low accuracy
· 1996 USGS Orthophotos
o Black and White
o Low resolution and low accuracy
· 1996 Aerial Photographs
o Yakima River Flood
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1995 Aerial Photographs
o Paper copies only, available from Public Works
o Urban Areas for West Richland, Richland, and Kennewick
· 1991 Aerial Photographs
o Some Color, some Black and White photographs
o Medium resolution scans
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1976/1977 Aerial Photographs
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1962/1963 Aerial Photographs**
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1955 Aerial Photographs
o Scanned, Not registered
· 1949 Aerial Photographs
o Roza and Prosser Areas
o Registered, not orthorectified
· 1941/1942 Aerial Photographs
o Paper copies only, available from Public Works
o Ranges 30 and 31
*National Agriculture Imagery Program
**Entire County, except Hanford