About GIS Maps and Data

How does Coastal Management use geographic information systems (GIS)?

About Cumulative
and Secondary Impacts

Coastal Management is attempting to identify and manage the cumulative and secondary impacts that development has on valuable coastal resources.

Freshwater Classifications Chart

Saltwater Classifications Chart

Information from the N.C. Division of Water Quality (in PDF format), which require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Oceanfront Shorelines, Setback & Hazards Mapping (interactive)

This interactive mapping tool allows you freedom to control the map and explore historic oceanfront shorelines, construction setback factors, static vegetation/setback lines, and various coastal hazard map layers.

Coastal Wetlands Mapping (interactive)

NC DCM's wetlands map viewer has been updated. Interact with Coastal Wetlands, NC CREWS, and Enhancement & Restoration Potential data.

North Carolina has recently mapped the location of all oceanfront sandbag structures. This viewer is powered by Google Maps with instructions explaining how to view sandbag data in Google Earth.

Download Oceanfront Setback Factor Maps
(1998 Shoreline)

Used for determining setback distances for oceanfront construction. Factors are based on long-term average movement of shoreline up to 1998. Effective April 1, 2004. Maps are in PDF format.

Download Oceanfront Spatial Data & Maps

Contains zipped spatial data and maps pertaining to historic shorelines, oceanfront setback factors,static vegetation/setback lines, coastal hazards, beach access, and more . . .

Download Coastal Wetlands Spatial Data

Contains zipped shapefiles of various coastal wetlands data sorted by county