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Description of Example ArcView Products 

Site/Customer Specific

Conservation Planning Theme – p_prog.jpg
Originally we started digitizing all of our conservation planning 
activities on a Conservation Plan theme.  Later as the state formulated 
their procedures we renamed that theme to District Land Units.  From 
this theme selected areas are converted to an individual Planned Land 
Units theme for each customer.  Each parcel planned on this map 
indicates where our office has spent time with a landowner to do 
detailed natural resource evaluations and completed a detailed plan of 
action.

Before Conservation Plan Map – before.jpg
This is a typical final product our office used to produce for a 
customer.  The quality was poor and unprofessional in appearance.

After Conservation Plan Map – after.jpg
This is our first ArcView product we produced.  Using the “before” map 
as a pattern we purposed to duplicate the same details.

Customer Service Toolkit / ArcView Produced Conservation Plan Map – con1.jpg
After more than year working with ArcView NRCS distributed a planning 
tool called the “Customer Service Toolkit - CST” to thirty pilot 
counties, one being ours.  Ours though was one of only twelve with 
ArcView.   The tool incorporates a customer database of conservation 
practices with the use of ArcView features.  We were able to use 
several themes we had already developed and use in one of several 
layout templates available through the CST program and ArcView.

Soils Map – soils.jpg
Shows the different type of soil present.  Customer’s field and water 
bodies are added to provide better map detail.   Soils theme was 
clipped to the study area boundary.

Flood Prone Area – flood.jpg
We obtained the 100 and 500 year flood plain theme from another agency.  
The example illustrates the areas of a planned property that would be 
under water in a 100 year storm event.  We like to use this theme while 
doing live demonstrations at events or when people tour our office 
because of its’ dramatic look.

Conservation Reserve Program – conres.jpg
One of the conservation programs available to landowners is the 
Conservation Reserve Program – CRP.  We developed a theme, CRP Fields, 
so we can better track land going into the program as well as provide a 
way to highlight these fields for the customer on a map.


Conservation Treatment – treat.jpg
Sometimes there is only a part of a given area that requires a certain 
conservation treatment.  We developed the Planned Treatment Area theme 
for so indicate those areas.

Contour – contour.jpg
A contour map is important to most conservation plans we develop.  It 
shows the lay of the land and is used to define drainage areas for 
designing conservation practices.  Here we are combining the contour 
map with a new planned farm pond.

Area/Watershed Based 

Major Lakes – majlake.jpg
Shawnee County has several lakes of importance.  These lakes are 
largely used for recreational purposes.  Maintaining and improving the 
quality of the water in these lakes is a high priority.  The two lakes 
on this map represent those where our office has digitized the drainage 
area above.  The next two maps are the result of that work.

Lake Sherwood Watershed – sher.jpg
The district received a small grant to work with the people above Lake 
Sherwood to educate and expand conservation practices.  This map is the 
culmination of our first watershed land cover assessment made using 
ArcView.  We first adapted a theme known as the Common Land Unit – CLU 
digitized by the Farm Service Agency.  Following an in the field survey 
we then populated the attribute table for the CLU theme to reflect the 
land cover in the watershed and produced the map.  We also supplied our 
watershed boundary to the county.  They were then able to use their GIS 
information to provide us with mailing addresses within the drainage.

Lake Shawnee Watershed – shaw.jpg
Following the district’s successful project in the Lake Sherwood 
watershed the district received another grant from the same group to do 
the same thing in the Lake Shawnee watershed.   This time however we 
digitized the drainage ourselves to come up with a more precise map of 
the land cover.

Known Underground Utilities Shawnee Co. – utility.jpg
We trained a summer employee with the basics of using ArcView.  For 
part of the training we had her create a “Utilities” theme.  By taking 
one photo at a time she used some aerial photography we had with the 
major underground utilities plotted and transferred the information.  
Besides the overall view of utilities this map gives us the theme 
itself is used to place the location on these underground lines on each 
conservation plan map as it is applicable.

Hay NAP Data – hay.jpg
Another agency in our building was interested in utilizing ArcView to 
plot one of their farm programs.  We created a theme and plotted 
participating farms for them.

TMDL Water Quality Priority Areas – tmdl.jpg
The State of Kansas has identified areas in the state for special 
emphasis to address water quality concerns.  Some of these areas where 
found in Shawnee County.  We produced this product so the public can 
see the boundaries of the priority areas within the county.  We have 
since used it when meeting with our state house and senate 
representatives, at a farm show attended by 40,000 and as well for 
general public education.