Public Protected Areas

This layer displays public land owned by federal, state, or local government with public access.

National Land Cover Dataset, 2021

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) serves as the definitive Landsat-based, 30-meter resolution, land cover database for the Nation. NLCD provides spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of the land surface such as thematic class (for example, urban, agriculture, and forest), percent impervious surface, and percent tree canopy cover. NLCD supports a wide variety of Federal, State, local, and nongovernmental applications that seek to assess ecosystem status and health, understand the spatial patterns of biodiversity, predict effects of climate change, and develop land management policy. NLCD products are created by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, a partnership of Federal agencies led by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Dominant Land Cover Class, 2021

This Layer was calculated using the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium’s National Land Cover Database. Percentages of each class were calculated using the number of class pixels present in the county or tract, divided by the total number of pixels in the county or tract.

Missouri Trails

This layer displays trails across missouri, collected from over 100 participating agencies and with the help of over 200 volunteers in 2018 and 2019. These data were collected by the Missouri Parks & Recreation Association as part of the Missouri Trails Project, funded by the Recreational Trails Program (RTP).