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Data Download and Viewer

Welcome to the Howard County, Maryland data download and viewer page. This page contains a growing repository of information provided by various county departments for use by the general public. For more interactive and static maps, please click on the Map and Data Tools tab

Latest Updates:

2011-09-22 - Group Quarter thematic has been added to the Census Data Browser.
2011-09-21 - 4 new maps showing HCC 2011 enrollment have been added to the Map Bin.
2011-09-14 - 1985 aerial imagery has been added to the Historic Aerial Viewer.

Note: The map below is interactive. Drag your mouse to pan and use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

Animal Control Statistics
   Animal Adoption - 2010

   Animal Adoption - 2009

   Incoming Animals - 2010

   Incoming Animals - 2009

   Other Dispositions - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Other Dispositions - 2009 Download Spreadsheet
Building Permits
   Building Permits 2012

   Building Permits 2011

   Building Permits 2010

   Building Permits 2009
Health Department
   Food Establishments - February 2013
Housing
   Housing Communities
Liquor Board
   Liquor Licenses - February 2013
Active Rental Units
   Active Rental Units - 2010

   Active Rental Units - 2009

Utility Maintenance
   Fire Hydrant Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Fire Hydrant Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Fire Hydrant Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

   Main Break Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Main Break Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Main Break Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

   Sewer Service Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Sewer Service Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Sewer Service Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Service Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Service Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Service Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Box Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Box Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Box Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Repairs - 2012 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Repairs - 2010 Download Spreadsheet

   Water Valve Repairs - 2009 Download Spreadsheet

Address Points - May 2013

Points containing street address attribution. May be used for geocoding, address search appications, and address mailings.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

AutoCAD (DWG)

Geodetic Benchmarks - December 2012

Point locations of Howard County's geodetic survey control network benchmarks. May be joined to scanned location cards providing detailed vertical information.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

AutoCAD DXF

Geodetic Stations - December 2012

Point locations of Howard County's geodetic survey control network stations. May be joined to scanned location cards providing detailed horizontal and vertical information.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

AutoCAD DXF

Land Features - Spring 2006

Land Features are captured from digital aerial photgraphy. Feature include airfield runways, bridge decks, major and minor buildings, driveways, parking lots, water bodies, railroad lines, road, sidewalks, sport fields, streams, outdoor swimming pools, trails, and tree lines.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

AutoCAD DWG

Political Boundaries & Polling Locations - 2010

This compressed file contains Congressional, Legislative, Election Precincts, and Voter Polling Locations based on the latest redistricting efforts using 2010 Census boundaries. The Council Districts have not been modified in this download and are based on the 2000 redistricting efforts. Council Districts will not officially change until the next council election.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

Google Earth KML

Property - May 2013

Property boundaries are captured using plats and other available lines of posession drawings and descriptions. The best source is used and digitized using coordinate geometry where possible. This layer is constantly being quality controlled and improved.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

DXF

Street Centerline - May 2013

Depicts all county, state, and privately owned streets in Howard County. Contains street address range, ownership, zipcode and municipality attribution. May be used for geocoding, and address searching in applications.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

AutoCAD DWG

Topography (Contours) - Spring 2011

Two foot interval elevation contour lines. This product was captured using Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) remote sensing technology. Metadata
Grids 01-05 (SHP)   Grids 01-05 (DWG)

Grids 06-10 (SHP)   Grids 06-10 (DWG)

Grids 11-15 (SHP)   Grids 11-15 (DWG)

Grids 16-20 (SHP)   Grids 16-20 (DWG)

Grids 21-25 (SHP)   Grids 21-25 (DWG)

Grids 27-30 (SHP)   Grids 27-30 (DWG)

Grids 31-35 (SHP)   Grids 31-35 (DWG)

Grids 36-40 (SHP)   Grids 36-40 (DWG)

Grids 41-45 (SHP)   Grids 41-45 (DWG)

Grids 46-50 (SHP)   Grids 46-50 (DWG)

Zoning - May 2013

Represent zoning districts based on Howard County's comprehensive zoning plan.

Metadata
ESRI Shapefile

Google KML


The following applications were created by various county agencies as a mechanism to provide government information to its citizens.

Address List Generator

Draw a shape or create a buffer and generate a list of all addresses in that shape or buffer. You create an address mailing list from the resulting data using other software.

Link To Website

Aerial Photography Map Viewer

View historic and current aerial photography in this easy to use Google Map application.

Link To Website

Census Data Browser

View census data on a map grouped by census block.

Link To Website

Crime Statistics Map

View Crime Statistics by Statistical Reporting Area (SRA).

Link To Website

Community Registration Map

Use Community Registration to define a community boundary and a notification boundary to receive notifications via email with information regarding the pre-submission community meeting in your area.

Community Registration
Community Notification

Development Plans and Public Meetings Map

Find public meetings or view current and past development plans near a specific address on a Google map. Download plan documents and contact relevant planners and engineers.

Link To Website

Development Plans and Public Meetings Map MOBILE

Find public meetings or view current and past development plans on your GPS enabled smartphone or mobile device based on your current location. Click the link below to see the application or scan QR code.
Link To Website

Geodetic Survey Control Map

Find Geodetic Benchmarks and Stations around Howard County. View linked scanned recovery cards for more detail and relevant coordinate information.

Link To Website

Geodetic Survey Control Map MOBILE

Find Geodetic Benchmarks and Stations on your GPS enabled smartphone or mobile device based on your current location. Click the link below to see the application or scan QR code.
Link To Website

Health Inspections

This website provides you with access to inspection reports for each of the facilities the Howard County Health Department licenses.

Link To Website

Healthy Howard Restaurant Map

Find a Healthy Howard designated restaurant on a Google map and view the healthy items on the menu.

Link To Website

Little Patuxent Parallel Interceptor Sewer Status Map

View a Google map showing the status of the Little Patuxent Parallel Interceptor Sewer Project and find the distance the project is from an address. Also, see which trails are closed to the public during specific times of the project.

Link To Website

Map Gallery

View general-purpose PDF maps generated by various county agencies.

Link To Map Gallery

Map Gallery Bin

The Map Gallery Bin was created as respository for custom maps created by various county agencies for particular projects. It contains a dynamic search to help filter through the maps you want.

Link To Map Gallery Bin

My Neighborhood

Find an Howard County address and view detailed information about it including nearby public facilities. Also, view the address and related information on a Google map.

Link To Website

Preservation Easements

Find Preservation easements througout Howard County. Easements include various Agricultural, Environmental, Preservation, and Historic easements and trusts.

Link To Website

Traffic Counts

View traffic counts for intersections and road segments in the county.

Link To Website

Voter Information Map

This Google Map application lets you key in an address and return the relevant polling location as well as driving directions to that polling location.

Link To Website
Howard County publishes over 180 datasets as both WMS (Web Map Service) and WFS (Web Feature Service) layers for use on its own websites and for use by the general public. These web services are used by the county in many of the websites listed on the "Map and Data Tools" tab as well as the interactive map on the "Welcome" tab.

Note: These web services are in testing at the moment and their URLs are subject to change in the future.
Web Map Services
A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database. The specification was developed and first published by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999. (Source: Wikipedia)

WMS Service Link  WMS Capabilities Document
Web Feature Services
The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service Interface Standard (WFS) provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls. (Source: Wikipedia)

WFS Service Link  WFS Capabilities Document
Howard County maintains strong data sharing relationships with surrounding local jurisdictions as well as the state and Federal government. These are data access resources provided by other government agencies and non profit organizations that might be helpful and/or supplemental to the data provided on this website.
Local County/Municipal Resources
Maryland State Resources
Federal Resources
Other Organizations

Howard County GIS
The GIS division provides data, tools, and technical assistance to almost every County agency. Technical assistance, programming and recommendations for standards are available to the many County departmental users who create and maintain data layers that are critical to their mission.

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Disclaimer: Howard County, Maryland assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of this application or the information contained herein or derived therefrom. The user assumes all risks and liabilities whatsoever resulting from or arising out of the use of this application. There are no oral agreements or warranties relating to the use of this application.