Description: Area not specifically designated for any other unit type or unknown; e.g. privately owned plats, transportation corridor buffers, trail/path parcels not large enough to be part of a park or natural area
Description: ParkServe® includes a comprehensive standardized database of local parks in the 13,913 cities, towns and communities. Census designated urban areas were used to define where to collect and create local data for cities, towns and communities. For each city, town and community, geographic boundaries were obtained from the US Census 2010 Places geospatial dataset and associated population estimates are derived from ESRI’s 2017 Demographic Forecasts. The ParkServe® team attempted to contact each city, town and community with a request for their parks data. If no GIS data was provided, the ParkServe® team created GIS data for the place based on available resources, such as park information from municipal websites, GIS data available from counties and states, and satellite imagery.Cities, towns and communities were then emailed a link to view the park data compiled in their area to verify the boundaries and attributes of the parks in the database through our custom web-based ParkReviewer™ application.ParkServe® Data InclusionProperty eligibility criteria for ParkServe®:- Publicly-owned local, state, and national parks- School parks with a joint-use agreement with the local government. Considering the scale of the project, only the joint-use agreements collected through ParkScore® were used.- Privately-owned parks that are managed for full public useExamples of property types not included in ParkServe®:- Golf courses- CemeteriesFor field descriptions, see: https://parkserve.tpl.org/downloads/
Copyright Text: The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land's mission is to create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. Learn more at: www.tpl.org
Description: Incorporated city boundaries in and around the Portland metropolitan area, derived from Boundary Commission and Oregon Secretary of State filed annexations.