Description: The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme (https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-cadastre/). The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The database was originally designed to support biodiversity assessments; however, its scope expanded in recent years to include all public and nonprofit lands and waters. Most are public lands owned in fee; however, long-term easements, leases, agreements, Congressional (e.g. 'Wilderness Area'), Executive (e.g. 'National Monument'), and administrative designations (e.g. 'Area of Critical Environmental Concern') documented in agency management plans are also included. The PAD-US strives to be a complete inventory of public land and other protected areas, compiling “best available” data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The PAD-US geodatabase maps and describes areas with over twenty-five attributes in nine feature classes to support data management, queries, web mapping services, and analyses. This PAD-US Version 2.0 dataset includes a variety of updates and changes from the previous Version 1.4 dataset. The following list summarizes major updates and changes: 1) Expanded database structure with new layers: the geodatabase feature class structure now includes nine feature classes separating fee owned lands, conservation (and other) easements, management designations overlapping fee lands, marine areas, proclamation boundaries and various 'Combined' feature classes (e.g. 'Fee' + 'Easement' + 'Designation' feature classes); 2) Major update of the Federal estate including data from 8 agencies, developed in collaboration with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Federal Lands Working Group (FLWG, https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/federal-lands-workgroup/); 3) Major updates to 30 States and limited additions to 16 other States; 4) Integration of The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Secured Lands geodatabase; 5) Integration of Ducks Unlimited's (DU) Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) database; 6) Integration of The Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Conservation Almanac database; 7) The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Lands database update: the national source of lands owned in fee or managed by TNC; 8) National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) update: complete update of non-sensitive (suitable for publication in the public domain) easements; 9) Complete National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) update: from the NOAA MPA Inventory, including conservation measure ('GAP Status Code', 'IUCN Category') review by NOAA; 10) First integration of Bureau of Energy Ocean Management (BOEM) managed marine lands: BOEM submitted Outer Continental Shelf Area lands managed for natural resources (minerals, oil and gas), a significant and new addition to PAD-US; 11) Fee boundary overlap assessment: topology overlaps in the PAD-US 2.0 'Fee' feature class have been identified and are available for user and data-steward reference (See Logical_Consistency_Report Section). For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, https://usgs.gov/gapanalysis/PAD-US/. For more information about data aggregation please review the “Data Manual for PAD-US” available at https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/science-analytics-and-synthesis/gap/pad-us-data-manual .
Copyright Text: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project (GAP), Sept. 2018, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS), Version 2.0 Combined Feature Class
Description: Parcels that are eligible for OSP credit based on their current land use. Criteria used included: Currently Zoned for Open Space, Conservation tax credit properties, restoration/mitigation projects, Conservation easement or land trusts, Parks and Golf Courses, School Athletic Yards, Cemeteries, and Community Owned Vacant Land. All existing impervious surfaces within those are removed from the eligible OSP area. <br><br>
NOTE: Parcels on vacant land are ONLY eligible if they are undeveloped, are not used as storage, and will be left as open space for at least 5 years. Local expertise is recommended to varify if the vacant land parcels identified by this app meet these qualifications prior to applying for OSP points.
Description: These data are the most recent (2018) parcel data for Horry County, SC modified to include the Nature Conservancy's data schema and to include attributes from protected lands in the county.
Description: Parcels that are eligible for OSP credit based on their current land use. Criteria used included: Currently Zoned for Open Space, Conservation tax credit properties, restoration/mitigation projects, Conservation easement or land trusts, Parks and Golf Courses, School Athletic Yards, Cemeteries, and Community Owned Vacant Land. All existing impervious surfaces within those are removed from the eligible OSP area. <br><br>
NOTE: Parcels on vacant land are ONLY eligible if they are undeveloped, are not used as storage, and will be left as open space for at least 5 years. Local expertise is recommended to varify if the vacant land parcels identified by this app meet these qualifications prior to applying for OSP points.
Description: Parcels that are eligible for OSP credit based on their current land use. Criteria used included: Currently Zoned for Open Space, Conservation tax credit properties, restoration/mitigation projects, Conservation easement or land trusts, Parks and Golf Courses, School Athletic Yards, Cemeteries, and Community Owned Vacant Land. All existing impervious surfaces within those are removed from the eligible OSP area. <br><br>
NOTE: Parcels on vacant land are ONLY eligible if they are undeveloped, are not used as storage, and will be left as open space for at least 5 years. Local expertise is recommended to varify if the vacant land parcels identified by this app meet these qualifications prior to applying for OSP points.
Description: The area excluded from Open Space Preservation Calculations. Per the CRS manual, this area excludes all Federal Lands > 10 ac, open waters > 10 ac,
rivers with average bank-to-bank width >500 ft, and all areas outside of FEMA's 100 yr floodplain.
Description: This dataset shows the extent of the areas eligible for consideration of Open Space Preservation credits based criteria outlined in the CRS manual. Areas excluded are: all Federal Lands > 10 ac, open waters > 10 ac,
rivers with average bank-to-bank width >500 ft, and all areas outside of FEMA's 100 yr floodplain.
Description: The first line of stable natural vegetation from which the oceanside regulatory construction setback is measured. This line was digitized from 2014 aerial imagery and only applies to shorelines that are eligible for OSP credit (all federally reguatled areas removed).
Description: Parcels that are eligible for OSP credit based on their current land use. Criteria used included: Currently Zoned for Open Space, Conservation tax credit properties, restoration/mitigation projects, Conservation easement or land trusts, Parks and Golf Courses, School Athletic Yards, Cemeteries, and Community Owned Vacant Land. All existing impervious surfaces within those are removed from the eligible OSP area. <br><br>
NOTE: Parcels on vacant land are ONLY eligible if they are undeveloped, are not used as storage, and will be left as open space for at least 5 years. Local expertise is recommended to varify if the vacant land parcels identified by this app meet these qualifications prior to applying for OSP points.