Georgia Rare Species and Natural Community Information | Georgia DNR

Rare Species Locations

Disclaimer for use of Rare Species Location Data

Please keep in mind the limitations of our database. The data collected by the Nongame Conservation Section comes from a variety of sources, including museum and herbarium records, literature, and reports from individuals and organizations, as well as field surveys by our staff biologists. In most cases the information is not the result of a recent on-site survey by our staff. Many areas of Georgia have never been surveyed thoroughly.

The Nongame Conservation Section can only occasionally provide definitive information on the presence or absence of rare species in a given area. Our files are updated constantly as new information is received. Thus, information provided by our program represents the existing data in our files on the date indicated on these pages and should not be considered a final statement on the species or area under consideration.

Available Data

Known rare species and natural community locations are available to the county and quarter quad level as both a web pages and a GIS coverage ESRI Shape file.

Locations by County

Select a county on this Georgia map or from the drop down box below to see a list of known rare species and natural community locations for that county.

County:

*These lists are for rare species and natural communities that are KNOWN to occur and which we have records of locations in our databases. Upon request to our office, we also have available POTENTIAL lists of species, which are likely to occur in the county if thorough surveys are performed (not available for every county). These lists are derived from the potential range of the species and should not be confused with the lists of known species provided here.

Locations by Quarter Quad

Quarter quad data information is at the precision of one quarter (1/4) of a USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle map. Quarter quads are named using the USGS map name with a suffix (NW, SW, NE, SE).

Here are several sites where one may determine the name of a quad: U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division, Georgia District, Map Mart, or USGS Map Finder.

Select the letter below that corresponds to the first letter of the quarter quad that you want to see. If a quarter quad is not present there are no elements for that quarter quad.

THIS DID NOT WORK ON June 6, 2008 due to a security flaw in the algorithm. If you get errors, use the download in next section below to get quarter quad locations from the shapefile.

Quarter Quad Name:

Download ESRI Shapefile

An ESRI Shapefile of quarter quad and county rare species data can be downloaded here ( updated October 2009). This shapefile allows you to use your own GIS application to query information by species, quarter quad, county, and many other ways.

Most ESRI shapefiles include at lease three files. One of these files is a "dbf" (dBase IV) file. This dBase file can easily be opened in non-GIS databases and spreadsheets for querying and reporting.

The Shapefile has a projection of ESRI Geographic (Lat/Lon), NAD84.

Contact information

Contact information for our staff can be found in the NatureServe Network Staff Directory.

Metadata

Detailed information about Natural Heritage data and methodology can be found on the NatureServe site starting at:

http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/aboutd.htm and http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/biotics/biotics-learn-more.shtml

Formal metadata for Natural Heritage Network (NatureServe) element occurrence data is located at:

http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/biotics/HDMSDoc/hdms_dx/NatureServe_EO_Metadata_09-2004.html