Washington County Notes & Help Document

Navigation

            This document is designed to help navigate, edit and answer any possible questions that may come up with use of the database and website, both of which contain many facets.  The first aspect this document will focus on is just basic navigation to view records on the website.  The records for the website were entered from hard copy sheets/pages/cards provided by the county.

 Step 1Access the website. Currently there are few pictures (or a list of the same items on the far left of the website) that can be clicked on to access that particular field of interest.

 

 

Step 2Click on the area of interest desired. For these notes we will go through the entire feature Classes.

 

Land CornersThis initial screen is populated with seven major fields. All the seven fields can be sorted in ascending or descending order, just by clicking on the header of the fields. The “Section Corner ID” field is the only clickable field. Section Corner ID is a combination of Corner Number, Township, Range & Section. E.g.: 10_74_6_01.

Select a Section Corner ID and the website is directed to the information for that Section Corner. At the bottom of the screen the recent scan document along with the Archive files is displayed. Click on each to view the Image.

 

BridgesThis initial screen is populated with 9 major fields. The “FHWA #” field is currently the clickable field.  Select a bridge and the website is directed to the information for that bridge.  At the left of “Bridge Details” information is a field named “Inspection Dates”.  This field has a drop down list next to it that has respective dates for inspections on that particular bridge.  Select a date and hit the “Go” button next to the date list. This date search will get the respective SIA Form, SIA Supplemental and Photos. Click on each to view.

 

CulvertsThis database contains 9 data fields. The “Culvert #” field is currently the clickable field. Select a Culvert and the website is directed to the information for that Culvert. At the bottom of “Culvert Details” the respective Culvert Designs information is displayed. Page number along with the File Name. Click on each to view.

 

Road SignsThis database contains 8 data fields. The “County Route Number” field is the clickable field. Select a County Route Number and the website is directed to the information for that Road Sign. At the bottom of “Road Sign Details” the respective Road Sign History information is displayed.

 

Road GradingThis database contains 7 data fields. The “Project #” field is the clickable field. Select a Project # and the website is directed to the information for that Road Grading. At the bottom of “Road Grading Details” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Pavement Inventory This database contains 10 data fields. The “Project #” field is the clickable field. Select a Project # and the website is directed to the information for that Pavement Inventory. At the bottom of “Pavement Inventory Details” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Pavement Designs This database contains 7 data fields. The “Pavement ID” field is the clickable field. Select a Pavement ID and the website is directed to the information for that Pavement Designs. At the bottom of “Pavement Design Details” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Driveways This database contains 8 data fields. The “Driveway #” field is currently the clickable field. Select a Driveway # and the website is directed to the information for that Driveways. At the bottom of “Driveway Details” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

GPS Monuments This database contains 7 data fields. The “GPS Name” field is currently the clickable field. Select a GPS Name and the website is directed to the information for that GPS Monument. At the bottom of “GPS Monument Details” the respective Image File are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

USGS Monuments This database contains 7 data fields. The “USGS Name” field is currently the clickable field. Select a USGS Name and the website is directed to the information for that USGS Monument. At the bottom of “USGS Monument Details” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

ROW Plats This database contains 7 data fields. The “ROW Plat ID” field is currently the clickable field. Select a ROW Plat ID and the website is directed to the information for that ROW Plat. At the bottom of “ROW Plat Details” the respective Image File are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Street Strip Maps This database contains 7 data fields. The “Street Map ID” field is currently the clickable field. Select a Street Map ID and the website is directed to the information for that Street Strip Map. At the bottom of “Street Strip Map” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Rail Road Strip Maps This database contains 6 data fields. The “Rail Road Name” field is currently the clickable field. Select a Rail Road Name and the website is directed to the information for that Rail Road Strip Map. At the bottom of “Rail Road Strip Map” the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

Fixed Assets This database contains 7 data fields. The “Fixed Assets” field is currently the clickable field. Select a Asset Name and the website is directed to the information for that Fixed Asset. At the bottom of “Fixed Asset” information the respective Image Files are displayed. Click on each to view.

 

SEARCH SCREEN There are two types of searches. Simple search and advanced search

 

Simple Search: Simple search is on Township, Range, Section, FHWA and Street Name. Check the boxes of the fields that you want to have the search result and select the search criteria. Click the search button and the output will be on next screen with the respective links to view. Click on each to view the detailed information and the Images.

 

Advanced Search: Select from the dropdown the respective feature Bridges, culverts, Row Plats and Section Corners. Click on the go button. Here you can select the fields and define multiple search criteria to minimize the serach result. Click the search button and the output will be on next screen with the respective links to view. Click on each to view the detailed information and the Images

 

ARCIMS

 

ARCIMS Link: Click on the ARCIMS link on the left side of the screen. Please wait until the Map is fully retrieved from the database.

 

 

Help on the Toolbar:

 

Legend: Displays the various legends for the active layers on the left side of the map.

Overview Map: Displays the overview map of the existing Map.

Zoom In: Zooms into the selected area on the map

Zoom Out: Zooms out to the selected area on the map

Full Extent: Gets the Full extent of the map on the screen.

Last Extent: Gets the previous extent of the map.

Pan: Pans in all the directions of the map.

Hot Link: Click on the bridge for example to get the detailed information about the Bridge along with the Image files to view

Feature Info: Gets the information about the selected feature.

Query: Select the Field, Operator and the value. Click on samples to get the sample values.  To do a advanced Search click on the AND or not buttons and continue till you build the query and finally hit the search button to get the output. At the bottom of the screen you will find a zoom to selected records link. Click on the link to Zoom to the selected features.

Find: It’s like a query but you can query on any field. It searches the entire feature class in the database for the input search criteria and gets the output where ever it matches.

Distance: Click on the Map and draw a area or line where you want to find the distance and it displays the Units in FEET.

Set Scale: Default is FEET but can be changed to Miles, Meters, Kilometers

Select By rectangle: Draw a rectangle and the output will be all the active features from the selected area.

Clear Selection: Clears All the selected features. 

Print: Prints the map. Can specify the Title to display on the Map.

Search TRS: Enter the Township, Range and Section and click on search. Output will result in data from sections feature and click on the link to Zoom to the map for the selected Township, Range & Section.