Maps

This page serves as an archive for all of the maps contained within the DWQ website.

General Maps, GIS Downloads, and Other Resources

• Interactive Regional Offices Map: Learn which Regional Office to contact for faster service.
• Interactive River Basin Map: Learn which River Basin you are in.
• NCONEMAP.COM: The largest repository of shapefiles (GIS) for the state of North Carolina.
• NCDOT USGS Topographic Maps: Georeferenced image files that cover the entire state.
• Statewide 24k Surface Water Shapefiles: Includes stream names, classifications, etc.

Aquifer Protection Section

• Interactive Groundwater Monitoring and Research Station Locations Map

Environmental Sciences Section

• Lower Neuse River Ambient Monitoring Stations
• Lower Pamlico Ambient Monitoring Stations
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Survey Locations

Planning Section

• Use Restoration Watershed Status Map - November 2009

• Environmental Sensitivity Maps: Maps, by county, that include Trout Waters, Class B Waters, Water Supply Watersheds (and Critical Areas), DWQ Management Strategy Zones, High Quality Waters, Outstanding Resource Waters, Special Management Strategies, Ambient Monitoring Sites, Animal Operation Permits, NPDES, Surface Water Intakes, Municipalities, River Basins, and more.
• North Carolina Water Supply Watersheds (2007): State wide coverage of WS-I, WS-II, WS-III, WS-IV watersheds (Protected and Critical Areas) and their relationship to municipalities, major streams, and river basins.
• Goose Creek Watershed (2008): Mecklenburg and Union County, Yadkin River Basin.  Depicts the boundary of the Goose Creek Watershed, its' streams and nearby municipalities.
• Cape Fear River Proposed Water Supply Watershed (WS-IV) Reclassification (2008): Bladen and Cumberland County, Cape Fear River Basin. Depicts the boundaries of the proposed WS-IV Protected and Critical Area that could be the result of a proposed intake on the Cape Fear River.  

Jordan Lake Watershed Rules

• Interactive Map

Surface Water Section

• Buncombe County Soil Survey Maps
• Headwater Stream Sites
• Unique Wetlands of North Carolina
• Stormwater Management Program Areas
• Stormwater Permitting Interactive Map
• Urbanized Area Maps: Stormwater Entities as Defined by the 2000 Census
  • Asheville
  • Greenville
  • Burlington
  • Hickory
  • Charlotte
  • High Point
  • Concord
  • Jacksonville
  • Durham
  • Raleigh
  • Fayetteville
  • Rocky Mount
  • Gastonia
  • Wilmington
  • Goldsboro
  • Winston-Salem
  • Greensboro