Maps

Types of map prints available from the Commission are described below. Prices for prints can be found in the aerial photography and map price list. Samples of some maps can be found in the aerial photography and map samples document (PDF). Printing the sample document will show the maps at actual scale.

To place an order for map prints, or for more information, please call the Commission at (262) 547-6721.

Topographic Maps

Topographic maps portray the shape and elevation of land through the use of contour lines. Both natural and constructed features are shown and identified, including lakes, rivers, vegetation, roads, boundaries, transmission lines, and major buildings. Topographic maps also contain control survey information, such as Public Land Survey section corners and section lines.

Topographic maps are created in either one of two scales. Topos created at a scale of 1″=100′ show a one-quarter-square-mile area, and topos created at a scale of 1″=200′ show a one-square-mile area. Both scales are printed on 36″ x 36″ size paper. Contour lines for both are delineated at two foot intervals.

Topographic maps are not available for the entire Region, and some topographic maps are available from municipalities rather than from the Commission. The following PDF files show the areas of each county that have been mapped, the date of the mapping, and where hardcopy prints can be obtained:

• Kenosha
• Milwaukee
• Ozaukee
• Racine
• Walworth
• Washington
• Waukesha

Base Maps

The Commission maintains a series of base maps for use in planning activities. The base maps depict transportation features, municipal boundaries, major lakes and rivers, and Public Land Survey section lines and corners. County base maps are available in scales of 1″=2,000′, 1″=4,000″, and 1″=8,000′. The Region base map is available at a scale of 1″=8,000′.

Soil Mapping Units

Soil mapping units define areas based on soil type, slope, and erosion. Data for soil maps was gathered between 1963 and 1965 through a cooperative effort by SEWRPC and the USDA Soil Conservation Service, and is displayed on aerial photographic images from 1963. The maps are available in two different scales, both showing a six-square-mile area. Maps at 1″=1,000′ scale are 17″ x 22″ in size, and maps at 1″=2,000′ scale are 8.5″ x 11″ in size.

Plan Maps

Transportation and land use plan maps for the Region are available. Plan maps measure 42″ x 54″ and are at prepared at 1″=8,000′ scale.

Transportation Plan Maps

The following plan maps show arterial street and highway elements for the Region including state trunk freeways and nonfreeways, county and local trunk highways, freeway-nonfreeway interchanges, numbers of traffic lanes, transit stations, park-ride and park-pool lots, and intermodal terminals (airport, bus, passenger rail, seaport). The 2000 transportation plan also includes transit service area coverage, but the only intermodal terminals shown are airports.

• 2020 Transportation Plan, Arterial Street and Highway Element
• 2010 Transportation Plan, Arterial Street and Highway Element
• 2000 Transportation Plan

Transit and bicycle element maps for the 2010 and 2020 transportation plans of the Region were also developed. The transit element plan map shows routes for rapid and express transit service, transit stations, transit service areas, and intermodal terminals (airport, bus passenger rail, seaport). The bicycle element plan map shows state, county, and local bicycle ways within utility and natural resource corridors and street and highway rights-of-way; major activity centers; and intermodal terminals (airport, bus, passenger rail, seaport).

• 2020 Transportation Plan, Transit Element
• 2020 Transportation Plan, Bicycle Element
• 2010 Transportation Plan, Transit Element
• 2010 Transportation Plan, Bicycle Element

Land Use Plan Maps

These maps show recommended land use development for the Region including suburban density, low density, medium density, and high density residential areas; major commercial, industrial, outdoor recreational, transportation, utility, governmental, and institutional centers; primary environmental corridors; and agricultural and rural residential areas.

• 2020 Land Use Plan
• 2010 Land Use Plan

Existing Land Use Maps

These maps show existing land use development of the Region categorized by single-family and multi-family residential; retail and service; manufacturing, wholesale, and storage; landfill and extractive; transportation, communication, and utilities (except highways, railways, and transmission lines); governmental and institutional; woodland and wetland; recreational; and agricultural and other open lands.

• 1985 Existing Land Use
• 1963 Existing Land Use