City of Hartford Assessor Map

City of Hartford

The City of Hartford's assessor maps are used by many departments and the public to determine property ownership. The original tax maps were maintained on Mylar film by the surveyors in the Engineering Department and paper copies were distributed to city departments for reference. The city's financial challenges prevented the Engineering Department from continuing the upkeep of the maps. The Assessor's Office maintained paper tax maps to reflect property ownership changes, but the maps became tattered and worn with use.

The City of Hartford's GIS staff worked with the Assessor's Office to design a new digital tax map layout which included developing a new map, block, and lot numbering system that would be based on a rectangular sheet grid to make the maps easier to be maintained in a GIS. The property lines were realigned based on the lot dimensions, maps on file in the Town Clerk's Office, aerial planimetrics, and digital orthophotography. The GIS staff added approximately 65,000 additional dimensions to clarify the lot sizes. The GIS staff developed both a full size and reduced size set of maps and they are now distributed annually to the departments requesting them.

Courtesy of City of Hartford GIS Services.

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