Blount County GIS Data is available by request and as distributed as follows:

Licensing Fees   General Metadata   Delivery Formats   Parcel Data   Orthophotography   

Elevation Data   Street Centerlines   Other Planimetric Data   GIS Analysis   

Licensing Fees:
Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) Rule 10-7-506 identifies that the State of Tennessee or a political subdivision thereof (County) may establish and impose a reasonable fee for the recovery of costs to develop and maintain public records including digitally produced data through a Geographic Information System. 

The following are datasets that are available from the Blount County GIS Group, and the fees associated with obtaining them.  Blount County citizens can obtain GIS data of their property for non-commercial purposes.  The fee is $40.

Blount County GIS General Metadata:
Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Tennessee_FIPS_4100_Feet
Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic
False_Easting: 1968500.00000000
False_Northing: 0.00000000
Central_Meridian: -86.00000000
Standard_Parallel_1: 35.25000000
Standard_Parallel_2: 36.41666667
Latitude_Of_Origin: 34.33333333
Linear Unit: Foot_US

Geographic Coordinate System:  GCS_North_American_1983
Datum:             D_North_American_1983
Prime Meridian: Greenwich
Angular Unit: Degree

GIS Data Delivery Formats:
Blount County GIS data is maintained as an ESRI GeoDatabase Feature Class.  Data can be delivered in the following formats:

• ESRI File GeoDatabase Feature Class
• ESRI Shapefile
• AutoCAD drawing files (*.dwg)
• MicroStation drawing files (*.dgn)
• Image files (*.jpg, *.tif, *.sid)

 

Parcel Data: Parcel data can be licensed in two ways.  A “Full Use” license enables the user to incorporate the parcel data into their GIS and utilize it without any limitations.  A “Limited Use” license limits the licensee to use it for one purpose in a view only manner. 

• Full Use - Individual 400 Scale Tax Map: $100
• Limited Use - Countywide Parcel Dataset – geometry & attributes: $2,500
• Limited Use - Countywide Parcel Dataset – geometry only: $700

 

Orthophotography:  An orthophotograph is an aerial photograph from which distortions owing to camera tilt and ground relief have been removed. An orthophotograph has the same scale throughout and can be used as a map. Blount County participated in three imagery acquisition projects since 2007. One, March 2007, was in conjunetion with the State, and the two others, February 2007 and 2009, were with Pictometry International.

• 6” Pixel Resolution Color Imagery.  1 square mile  Jpeg format.  Fly Date: February 2007
• 6” Pixel Resolution Color Imagery.  1 square mile  Tif format.  Fly Date: February 2009
• 12” Pixel Resolution Color Imagery.  1 square mile  Tif format.  Fly Date: February 2009

Price per tile = $25

• 1’ Pixel Resolution Color Imagery 1” = 200’.  Uncompressed GeoTiff format,  clipped to the Property Assessor 400 scale tax grid. 178 Images.  Fly Date: February 2007

Price per tile = $100

• 1’ Pixel Resolution.  Color Imagery  1”= 400’.  Mr. SID format.  Seamless county-wide imagery (4 images).  Fly Date: February 2007

Price = $1000

• 2’ Pixel Resolution.  B&W Imagery 1”=400’.  Mr. SID format.  Seamless county-wide imagery.  Fly Data February 2002.  Available for free download from: Download 2002 Imagery

Elevation Data: Elevation data for Blount County, captured in February 2002.

• 2’ Contours or Breaklines and spot elevations – 100 Scale map sheet.  Limited availability

Price per tile = $100

• 5’ Contours or Breaklines and spot elevations – 100 Scale map sheet.  Limited availability

Price per tile = $75

• 20’ Contours or Breaklines and spot elevations – 400 Scale map sheet.

Price per tile = $50

• 20’ Contours for entire county = $750

Street Centerline: A street centerline is a line digitized along the center of a street.  Intelligent street centerline data for Blount County. 

• Seamless, countywide street centerline with street names and block ranges.

Price for county = $500

Planimetric Data: The Blount County GIS Group maintains many other planimetric datasets such as Municipal boundaries (Alcoa & Maryville only), city/county zoning, FEMA flood, streams, soils, etc.

• Disc of selected planimetric layers in ESRI Shapefile format = $40.  Add additional $15 for data in AutoCAD dwg or MicroStation dgn format.

GIS Analysis: GIS Analysis and Hard Copy Data Sales are available from the Blount County GIS Group.

• Custom Mapping: $40/hour with one hour minimum and associated plotting or media charges.  For example, a request from a developer for two hard copy topo maps of property south of Denso would be: $40 (1 hour of work plus first map) + $10 (second map) = $50. 
• Standard printing/plotting:Hard copy maps (stock and custom):
• 8.5 x 11 = $1 for each additional copy
• 11 x 17 = $1 for each additional copy
• 24 x 36 = $10 for each additional copy
• 36 x 48 = $15 for each additional copy

 

Current portions of this page and the BlountGIS Web Site are currently under construction. BCGIS is currently working to complete the information on this web site.