Planning Maps
Tompkins County Planning Department produces a variety of maps for use by the general public. The maps are intended for citizen planners and the general public to help them plan in their communities.
Additional maps will be provided as they become available.
Tompkins County Land Use and Land Cover
The Tompkins County Planning Department produced a land use and land cover data set of Tompkins County, NY in 1995 and in 2009 updated the data using the 2007 natural color ortho-imagery. The need for this data set has been identified by various county departments, local municipal agencies, and other not-for-profit organizations.
High resolution natural color digital orthoimagery acquired from the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC) , and a number of other secondary digital data sources (wetlands, hydrology, tax parcel and planimetric base data) were used to interpret and delineate land use and land cover directly on-screen.
The land use and land cover classification system that was designed for the 1995 project to meet the needs of the users of these data was used for the 2007 data. In 1968, the Land Use and Natural Resource Inventory (LUNR), a state-wide land use and land cover mapping project, used aerial photographs to identify 130 land use and land cover classes. The Tompkins County land use and land cover classification system has been designed to be comparable with the LUNR classification system. Comparable classification systems will enable users to analyze changes in land use and land cover over the previous thirty year time period.
 Tompkins County Land Use and Land Cover (pdf)
Land Use Land Cover Change Table (pdf)
Tompkins County Agricultural District Maps
Tompkins County Planning Department is responsible for providing NYS Department Agriculture and Markets with updated Agricultural District maps every 8 years. There are 2 Agricultural Districts in Tompkins County and updates are spaced at a four year interval from the other district.
Tompkins County Agricultural Districts (pdf)
Agricultural District 1 - Eastern half of County (updated 2004; next update due 2012):
Lansing
Groton
Dryden
Ithaca
Caroline
Danby
Agricultural District 2 - Western half of County (updated 2008; next update due 2016):
Ulysses
Enfield
Newfield
Ithaca
Danby
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