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
• Benton County Road Atlas - displays roads and landmarks within the county in a convenient spiral-bound book or three-ring binder
• Benton County Election Atlas - displays election precincts along with roads and landmarks within the county in a convenient spiral-bound book or three-ring binder
• 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