Parcel data
Quick Links:
- Parcel data resources - links to on-line maps, standards, etc.
- ESRI shapefile download (VCGI website; type in the keyword “parcels”)
- ESRI shapefile download (VCGI FTP site; direct file download)
- KMZ file download (for use in Google Earth)
- Halifax property map
- Somerset parcel data and map
- Parcel data status of Windham Region towns
Vermont is one of only a few states in the country where property records are maintained at the town level. Each individual town is responsible for these property records, which may include parcel, or "tax" maps. As such, parcel maps and data—their accuracy, format, and quality-- vary from town to town.
Obtaining Digital Parcel Data
Parcel data polygons for most towns can be downloaded as ESRI shapefiles from the Vermont Center for Geographic Information. Go to the VGIS data warehouse, type in the keyword “parcels,” click "go," then click on the “download” button. You may also download files directly from VCGI's FTP site.
If you are looking for parcel data lines, data showing non-parcel boundary lines on tax maps (e.g. land hooks, utility easements—the “TZ” files), archive version of parcel data, more current parcel data, or information on data not available from the VGIS data warehouse, please contact GIS staff at WRC.
Town Parcel Map and GIS data status
This is our best estimate as to the status of tax maps and parcel data. * Note: "Year" indicates year of the most current data WRC and VCGI have from contractor. More current data may exist.
| Town | Paper maps |
Contractor | Digital data |
Year* | Contractor | Data Notes |
|
Athens |
yes | Dibo | no | - | - | lines available, contact WRC |
| Brattleboro | yes | CAI | yes | 2016 | CAI | updated yearly |
| Brookline | yes | Dibo | yes | 2003 | WRC | (paper maps more current) |
| Dover | yes | CAI | yes | 2015 | CAI | updated regularly |
| Dummerston | yes | CTI | yes | 2014 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Grafton | yes | Dibo | yes | 1991 | SS | (paper maps more current); |
| Guilford | yes | town lister | yes | 2016 | Main St | |
| Halifax | yes | D. Todd | yes | 2017 | D. Todd | updated regularly |
| Jamaica | yes | town lister | yes | 2009 | town lister | contact WRC |
| Londonderry | yes | DR | yes | 2006 | WRC | (paper maps more current) |
| Marlboro | yes | CTI | yes | 2015 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Newfane | yes | town lister | no | - | - | |
| Putney | yes | CTI | yes | 2013 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Readsboro | yes | CAI | yes | 2011 | CAI | |
| Rockingham | yes | Dibo | yes | 2012 | Dibo | contact WRC |
| Searsburg | yes | DR | no | - | - | |
| Somerset | yes | WRC | yes | 2013 | WRC | |
| Stratton | yes | CTI | yes | 2013 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Townshend | yes | Dauchy | yes | 2012 | Dauchy | |
| Vernon | yes | CTI | yes | 2015 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Wardsboro | yes | Dauchy | yes | 1998 | CTI | |
| Westminster | yes | Dibo | yes | 2005 | WRC | (paper maps more current) |
| Weston | yes | CAI | yes | 2012 | CAI | updated yearly |
| Whitingham | yes | CTI | yes | 2015 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Wilmington | yes | CTI | yes | 2015 | CTI | updated regularly |
| Windham | yes | CAI | yes | 2005 | WRC | (paper maps more current) |
| Winhall | yes | CAI | yes | 2012 | CAI | updated yearly |
| Town | Paper Maps |
Contractor | Digital Data |
Year* | Contractor | Data notes |
* Note: "Year" indicates most current data WRC has from contractor; more current data may exist. Data at VCGI may be older.
Contractor abbreviations:
- CAI - Cartographic Associates, Inc., Littleton, N.H.
- CTI - Cartographic Technologies, Inc., Brattleboro/Dummerston, Vt.
- Dauchy - Dauchy/Creamer Associates, surveyors, Jamaica, Vt.
- Dibo - Dibernardo Associates, surveyors, Bellows Falls, Vt.
- DR - Russell Graphics, Raleigh, N.C.
- D. Todd - Diana Todd
- Main St - Main Street GIS, Northampton, Mass.
- SS - Smart Scan and Vermont's Office of Geographic Information Services
- WRC - Windham Regional Commission, Brattleboro, Vt.
