Josephine County Task 4 Methodology
Map
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Title
1
Soils Capability for
Farm Use
Map Description
This map uses NRCS soil survey data to display
Class I-IV soils in green.
This map uses NRCS soil survey data to display
medium and high forest productivity ratings (for
Douglas Fir). Note: there are no “low” forest
productivity soils in Josephine County.
This map uses NRCS soil survey data to display
“prime non-irrigated,” and “prime if irrigated”
soils (per OAR 660-33-0020(8)(a) as well as Class
II non-irrigated soils, all of which are considered
“high-value farmland” by the State of Oregon.
The Department of Land Conservation and
Development (DLCD) also provided GIS data
showing “Viticultural Areas” in the County that,
according to DLCD, should also be classified as
high-value farmland. Public lands are shaded
grey on the map.
This map uses Department of Water Resources
data to display well data on a per section basis
for the County. Data was aggregated into three
levels (30 or less gpm, 31-60 gpm and 61-90
gpm) for those sections that had data from more
than 5 wells per section. If insufficient data was
available, those sections are colored yellow. If no
data is available, no color attribution is included.
2
Forest Productivity
3
High-Value
Farmland
4
Groundwater
Resources
4b
Groundwater
Resources (part 2)
This map displays water districts.
Goal 5 Resources
This map uses County data to display Goal 5
resources including scenic resources, historic
places, and scenic easements. Public lands are
shaded grey on the map.
Goal 5 Resources –
Wildlife
This map displays County Goal 5 resources
including the County’s Deer Winter Range
habitat, aggregate sites, and serpentine areas.
Public lands are shaded grey on the map.
Wildlife
This map uses State and Federal data to display
Class 1 and 2 streams, State Conservation
Opportunity Areas, Deer Winter Range,
Heron/Osprey Nesting Areas and Federal
Endangered Species Habitat.
5a
5b
6
Legend Items and Shapefiles
1) Soils I-IV
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Forest Productivity (Soils
DFIR 50-84 and 85)
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) HVFL (3 categories)
2) Viticultural Areas
3) Public Lands
4) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Groundwater Resources
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Water Districts
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Historic Places (4 categories)
2) Wild and Scenic Rogue
3) Important Locations
4) Scenic Easements
5) Public Lands
6) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Streams
2) Wetlands
3) Aggregate Sites
4) Serpentine Areas
5) Deer Winter Range
6) Public Lands
7) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Class 1 and 2 Streams
(Streams)
2) Denman Wildlife Area
3) Conservation Opportunity
Areas
4) Federally Protected Species
Josephine County Task 4 Methodology
Map
#
Title
7
Fire Protection
Districts
8
Parcelization and
Existing
Development
9
Zoning
10
Utilization of
Residential Lands
11
Areas of Natural
Hazards and
Other
Development
Constraints
1
Map Description
Color-shaded areas on the maps identify the
boundaries of the 5 Fire Districts in Josepine
County.
This map uses County taxlot data to display
privately-owned taxlots with an improvement
value of $10,000 or more in orange color and
those with an improvement value of less than
$10,000 in green color.
This map uses the County zoning data to display
generalized zoning categories.
This map uses County taxlot and zoning data to
display residentially-zoned taxlots that are
developed residentially, non-residentially or
those with no development. “Developed” on
this map means an improvement value > $0.
Public lands are shaded grey on the map.
This map uses NRCS and FEMA data to display
areas with steep slopes as well as areas within
the 100 Floodplain or Floodway. These areas are
deemed to have natural hazard-related
development constraints.
5) Public Lands
6) Urban Growth Boundaries
Legend Items and Shapefiles
1) Fire Districts
2) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Existing Development1
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Zoning
2) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) Residentially-Zoned Land
2) Public Lands
3) Urban Growth Boundaries
1) FEMA Floodplains
2) Steep Slopes (>15%)
3) Public Lands
4) Urban Growth Boundaries
The “Existing Development” and “Residentially-Zoned Land” shown in maps 8 and 10 have been determined
using the Josephine County Taxlots data overlapped with zoning data. Fields corresponding to the mapping
characteristics are included in the attribute table under the fields “MAP_8” and MAP_10.” The shapefile is named
“JOCO_Taxlots.”