We create, enhance and maintain critical geospatial (land information) data sets, provide mapping and geospatial analysis services, and support GIS, CAD and imaging hardware and software. County users include Land Conservation, Treasurer, Register of Deeds, Highway, Emergency Management, County Clerk, Corporation Counsel, District Attorney, Medical Examiner, and County Sheriff and Communications Center. We share data freely with all cities, villages, and towns in the County, neighboring counties, Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources, Revenue, Administration, Transportation and federal agencies including Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Census Bureau, US Geological Survey, and US Army Corps of Engineers.
To better understand the variety of duties and responsibilities listed above, definitions of highlighted terms are as follows:
Land information is defined in Wisconsin State Statutes 16.967 (1)(b) as:
“...any physical, legal, economic or environmental information or characteristic concerning land, water, groundwater, subsurface resources or air in this state. It includes information relating to topography, soil, soil erosion, geology, minerals, vegetation, land cover, wildlife, associated natural resources, land ownership, land use, land use controls and restrictions, jurisdictional boundaries, tax assessment, land value, land survey records and references, geodetic control networks, aerial photographs, maps, planimetric data, remote sensing data, historic, and prehistoric sites and economic projections.”
Land records are defined in Wisconsin State Statutes 16.967 (1)(d) as:
“...maps, documents, computer files and any other information storage medium in which land information is stored.”
Land Information System is defined in Wisconsin State Statutes 16.967 (1)(c) as:
“...an orderly method of organizing and managing land information and land records.”
