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Northwest Arkansas Karst Area Sensitivity (The Nature Conservancy):
(The following documents were created by the Nature Conservancy Ozark Highlands Office, with partial funding by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arkansas Field Office.)
Community Growth Best Managment Practices for Conservation of the Cave Springs Recharge Zone (Document) (8.5Mb)
Karst Area Sensitivity Map for Northwest Arkansas: Benton County (4.8Mb)
Karst Area Sensitivity Map for Northwest Arkansas: Benton County HI-RES JPEG (45.7Mb)
Karst Area Sensitivity Map for Northwest Arkansas: Washinton County (4.3Mb)
Karst Area Sensitivity Map for Northwest Arkansas: Washinton County HI-RES JPEG (41.3Mb)

Local Developments of Interest:

Springdale Northern Bypass - Highway 412 - LATEST PRELIMINARY ALIGNMENT June 2008. (from AHTD)

Springdale Northern Bypass - Highway 412 - (2.6 mb)
Bella-Vista Bypass - Highway 71 Relocation (from AHTD) - (109 kb)
Bella-Vista Bypass - Highway 71 Relocation - (2.9Mb)

Northwest Arkansas Area Base Maps:
Northwest Arkansas Region
Benton and Washington Counties - (5.5 mb)
Benton County - (3.5 mb)
Benton County with Township and Range - (3.0 mb)
Washington County - (3.1 mb)
Washington County with Township and Range - (3.0 mb)
Madison County - (1.9 mb)

Demographics:
Increased Pop/Sq.Mi. added from 2000 to 2004 Housing Starts - (.6mb)
Census 2000 Pop/Sq.Mi. - (.65mb)
Census Tracts
Number of Houseing Units by Transportation Analysis Zones 2003
Building Permit Values by Commercial, Industrial, and Public Investment

Transportation Planning Maps:
2030 Proposed Two County Network - (3.7 mb)        (MAY NOT REFLECT ALL AMENDMENTS!)
Transportation Improvement Plan 2003-2005 - (2.4 mb)        (MAY NOT REFLECT ALL AMENDMENTS!)
Draft Transportation Improvement Plan 2005-2007 - (2.9 mb)        (MAY NOT REFLECT ALL AMENDMENTS!)
Washington and Benton Current Arterial Network - (3.4mb)
Washington and Benton - 2015 Arterial Network - (3.0mb)
Transportation Analysis Zones (TAZ)

Environmental and Historic Maps:
Benton and Washington County Watersheds - (1.4 mb)
Heritage Trail Plan Map
Heritage Trail Plan Map - High Resolution - (0.7 mb)
Heritage Trail Plan Map Proposed - High Resolution - (1.0 mb)
Heritage Trail Plan Map Proposed - Low Resolution - (0.6 mb)

Index Maps:
 NW Arkansas Qrthophotography (NWARPC, 2004)
 Washington County Arkansas Qrthophotography with Township and Range Grid (NWARPC, 2004) - (3.2mb)
 Benton County Arkansas Qrthophotography with Township and Range Grid (NWARPC, 2004) - (3.5mb)

Washington County Political Boundaries:
State House and Senate Districts
County Voting Districts
Fayetteville Voting Districts NEW
Springdale Voting Districts NEW

Benton County Political Boundaries:
State House and Senate Districts

Washington County Political Boundaries:
State House and Senate Districts
County Voting Districts
Fayetteville Voting Districts
New Districts (for 2002 elections)
(Approved by the Washington County Board of Election Commissioners on December 21, 2001)

Regional Development:
Transportation Analysis Zone Map
2002 Dwelling Units by TAZ Zone
2002 Non-Residential by TAZ Zone
2003 Dwelling Units by TAZ Zone
2003 Non-Residential by TAZ Zone

Link to Geospatial Data, Imagery, Maps and related information:
Springdale Northern Bypass (Highway 412) Environmental Studies
Springdale Northern Bypass (Highway 412) FEIS Preferred Line Maps-August 2005
GeoStor - The On-Line Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure
Basic Instructions for obtaining 2004 Aerial Photography -The easiest way to get the data:

Find the name of the Quarter Quarter Quad that you are interested in this .pdf map of the : New NW Arkansas Qrthophotography (NWARPC, 2004).
These are named following the logic of the USGS Orthophotquad naming convention where each corresponding 7.5' Topographic map is subdivided into quarters and here, do to the size of the data set, further into quarter quarters.
Then go to http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/Portal/index.jsp and click the 'FTP - Rasters' link.
Find the links to "NW Arkansas Orthophotography (NWARPC, 2004)" under the 'IMAGE LIBRARY LINKS:' list and choose the data type your interested in.
This will open the File Transfer Protocol application on your computer allowing you to download specific images and support files. (In Microsoft Explorer highlight the files and left click, then choose 'Copy to folder' and a folder on your local machine to copy the images to.

You may also download the data using any of the excellent Geostor 5.0 access tools to which instructions are available on the Geostor homepage:
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/Portal/index.jsp
Free Program for Viewing MrSID Compressed Images -
A free program that will allow the viewing of MrSID Compressed Images (which are much smaller files than the more common TIFF's and thus much faster to download) is available at:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/download2.html