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Digital Data Availability Summary

ALABAMA Spatial Non-spatial None
GIS Portals x    
Submerged Lands     x
Ownership  
    Submerged Lands Parcels     x
    General Property and Parcel Data     x
    Public and Conservation Lands x    
Leases and Other Use Authorizations  
    Aquaculture and Shellfish     x
    Other Use Authorizations x    
Local Parcel Information 2 coastal counties
    Deed Records   2  
    Assessment Data   2  
    Parcels 1   1

GIS Portals

  • Alabama Data Portal (web site). Metadata catalog and interactive map viewer
  • Mississippi-Alabama Habitats Tool (website). An online map viewer that identifies priority areas for protection within coastal and estuarine environments and provides parcel information associated with those priorities for Mobile Bay, Alabama

Submerged Lands

No online data was found. However, note that “a state oil and gas lease block boundary coverage (LEAS_ST) [see below] was created from a Chart of Submerged State Lands produced by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR).”1 DCNR contains the Division of State Lands (web page), which manages Alabama offshore and submerged lands (web page).

Ownership

Submerged Lands Parcels

No data found.

General Property and Parcel Data

No data found.

Public and Conservation Lands

Data Federal Land
Access View metadata (web page; search: state land). Request ESRI shapefile from gis@gsa.state.al.us.
Detail Federally owned lands in Mobile and Baldwin counties.
Distributor Geologic Survey of Alabama.
Data Weeks Bay National Estuarine Reserve.
Access View metadata (web page; search: state land). Request ESRI shapefile from gis@csc.noaa.gov.
Detail Digitized from management and research polygons. 1998.
Distributor NOAA Coastal Services Center.

Leases and Other Use Authorizations

Aquaculture and Shellfish

No data found.

Other Use Authorizations

Data Offshore Layers.
Access View using online interactive map. (web page) Map service off-line as of May 2009.
Detail No metadata.
Distributor Alabama Oil and Gas Board.
Data State Oil Gas Lease Blocks (LEAS_ST).
Access View metadata (web page; search: lease). Request ESRI shapefile from gis@gsa.state.al.us.
Detail Created as a base for plotting oil and gas well locations and for incorporation into the federal Minerals Management Service’s Gulf-wide Information System. 1993.
Distributor Geologic Survey of Alabama.
Data Active Lease Boundaries in Federal Waters off the Alabama Coast.
Access View metadata (web page; search: lease). Request ESRI shapefile from gis@gsa.state.al.us.
Detail Subset of Active Lease Polygons from the federal Minerals Management Service. 2001.
Distributor Geologic Survey of Alabama.
Data Offshore Wells in State Waters off the Alabama Coast.
Access View metadata (web page; search: oil). Request ESRI shapefile from gis@gsa.state.al.us.
Detail Subset of data from the federal Minerals Management Service’s Gulf-wide Information System.
Distributor Geologic Survey of Alabama.

Local Parcel Information

Baldwin County (web site)

Deed Records Access Deeds and Records data. (web page)
Assessment Data Access Real Property Appraisal data. (web page)
Parcels No data found.
Other Planning and Zoning Department ArcIMS Server. (web page)

Mobile County (web site)

Deed Records Search Real Property Records. (web page)
Assessment Data Search Real Property. Link to parcel map. (web page)
Parcels Mobile County Revenue Commission Tax Parcel Map. (web page)

 

1 Geologic Survey of Alabama. 2000. Development of Alabama GIS Data in Support of the MMS Gulf-wide Information System (G-WIS). (download pdf from site)

 

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