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The Kenton County Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) maintains official property records. You can notify the PVA office of your change of address in a property located in Kenton County by submitting this form or visiting the Kenton County PVA website here.
The LINK-GIS map viewer allows you to search by address, PIDN, or owner name to access property information. From here you can view and print maps with property lines, zoning, flood zones and explore aerial photography from different years. Please visit the help section to learn how to Use the LINK-GIS Map Viewer Experience.
The Site Plan map viewer allows users to create a printable site plan of a property in Kenton or Campbell County. Site plans are often required for building permits, zoning permits, code enforcement issues, and zone change requests.
A plat map, also known as a “plat,” shows how a tract of land is divided into lots. It is drawn to scale and records the land’s size, boundary locations, nearby streets, flood zones (sometimes), and any easements or rights of way. The Kenton County Clerk’s office records plats and is the official custodial agency of plats.
The LINK-GIS map viewer provides basic property information for Campbell, Kenton and/or Pendleton Counties. Use the Find Widget to search for an address, place, PIDN or owner. While this information is provided for general reference only through the map viewer, the Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) in each jurisdiction is responsible for the maintenance, updates, and accuracy of parcel records. Any questions, corrections, or comments regarding property boundaries or parcel information should be directed to the appropriate PVA office for that jurisdiction.
If you are calling 911 from a land line, the service address of the phone you are calling on is used to locate the origin of your call. This is handled by the phone service provider, not LINK-GIS. In the case of a cell phone, the location of your 911 call is determined using GPS, if your phone has this capability, or by triangulating your location using all the cell towers that can pick up the signal from your phone. The origin of your 911 phone call is handled by the phone carrier or dispatch center, and LINK-GIS does not have this capability, nor does it have any involvement in active calls to 911 dispatch centers. LINK-GIS does provide addressing data to several dispatch centers that handle 911 calls, which they use internally to assist with managing their addressing data.
Paver Saver is a system which allows utility companies, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and county and city public works departments to share information about their work schedules and locations. Paver Saver aims to prevent newly paved roads from being torn up to repair a problem, and then a month later, torn up again in the same spot by a different agency to fix another problem.
The system finds where work schedules and project locations overlap and then notifies these organizations in advance so that they can potentially coordinate their work and save time, money and aggravation while keeping the road in good repair. It has already saved significant sums of money for participants in the short time it has been available. The Paver Saver application is a great example of how geographic data serves as the backbone of a collaborative solution that saves time, money, and resources.
Our aerial photography is re-flown every 3-4 years resulting in ortho-photography with resolution varying by year of acquisition. The most current photography has a resolution of 2-3 inches on the ground. Older photography has a resolution of 6 inches on the ground, and sometimes 12″ on the ground. This means an object in 12″ resolution photography would have to measure about 12-18 inches in order to show up in the aerial photography at this level of detail.
The accuracy of the property lines varies depending on several factors. In general, the newer a subdivision is, the more accurate the mapped lines are. In a newer subdivision that has been established in roughly the past 15 years, the lines are generally within 5 feet +/- of where they actually exist. In an older, more rural portion of the county, the property lines may not have been surveyed in many years or decades. Those lines could have been mapped according to fence lines or other various assumed physical representations of where the property lines were thought to exist at the time.
Today we rely on deeds and plats of record to map the property lines. In areas of concern, these records are checked to re-map areas that appear to be inconsistent. The property lines in LINK-GIS are not a survey and are not intended to represent actual surveyed property lines – only a licensed surveyor can authoritatively map property boundaries. The Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) is the authority on property boundary and parcel data.
Address points represent a more specific location of a unique address – for example an individual house, apartment, suite, condominium or office. Parcel addresses are specific to an entire piece of real estate. A single piece of real estate may contain multiple address points.
A GIS, or Geographic Information System, is a computer system that stores and uses data and aerial photography in a digital mapping environment. GIS is unique in that it can perform analysis in a spatial (location-based) context – often through a process called overlay analysis.
GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a service that uses satellites and a special receiver to find your location based on the signals received from the satellites. GPS data is frequently used with GIS to create new data, capture data in the field, or to place a location within the context of a GIS.
GIS and GPS work together, but they are independent systems.
Oblique photography is taken at an angle (often 45°), similar to what you might see looking out the window of an airplane, while traditional aerial photography is taken looking straight down while directly over the area being photographed.
The Kenton County Development Tracker is a web-based mapping application that designed to allow users to search development activity in Kenton County. The Development Tracker reports single-family residential, multi-family residential, senior living, mixed use, commercial, industrial, and institutional development activity. It analyzes building permit data using near real-time automation to deliver accurate build-out estimates and lot-by-lot analysis. It was built to assist in reporting housing construction activity, vacant lot inventory, and future planned developments entering the pipeline.
The Development Tracker is available through the LINK-GIS website and the PDS Development Hub site which is located on the PDSKC.org homepage. The PDS Development Hub also hosts associated dashboards and data tables to present data and analysis in a non-mapping format. This provides end users with a comprehensive and accessible look at development activity in Kenton County.
The Kenton County Road Reporter is a web-based mapping application that allows citizen-based reporting of roadway obstructions and conditions. Road Reporter is available to the public and allows the user to report various maintenance issues such as potholes, dead animals, erosion, missing stop signs, and more.
The report submitted by the user includes the issue type, an approximate location, basic contact information, and an optional photo. Once submitted, the report is routed to the appropriate authority through 24/7 automation for resolution. The Road Reporter survey is accessible through the LINK-GIS website under “Partner Maps and Apps” and can also be added as a shortcut on a mobile device! Learn how here: Add a shortcut to your phone’s home screen and use it anytime here.
These two are related, but they are not the same thing.
Survey monumentation
Survey monumentation is physical markers on the ground that are set or used to mark positions. Examples of survey monumentation include iron pins, rebar, concrete monuments, brass caps, boundary stones, and PK nails. The purpose of monumentation is to physically mark a point so it can be found again later (i.e., property corners or boundaries).
Survey control network
A survey control network provides the spatial framework that survey monumentation points belong to. It is a system of reference points with known coordinates. It provides accuracy, consistency, and reference for all surveys in an area. In Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties the survey control network consists of 415 concrete monuments. Each control network monument is concrete, and approximately 1-foot in diameter, and 3-feet deep. The top of the monument is usually at, or just below grade, and has a metal cap engraved with the text “Geodetic Network Control Monument” or similar.
How they work together
The survey control network exists on the ground using permanent monumentation (usually concrete pillars in NKY). Note that not all monuments are control points (e.g., a property corner pin), and that not all control points have permanent monuments (e.g., temporary GPS control).
The LINK-GIS Control Network Recovery page helps you to quickly find Survey Monuments in Boone, Kenton, Campbell or Pendleton County. You can also learn how to Locate Survey Monuments and interact with additional layers in the LINK-GIS map viewer.
LINK-GIS has extensive expertise in developing digital data, maps, databases, and on-line mapping solutions.
LINK-GIS has been fostering partnerships and coordinating projects with external partner agencies for decades.
LINK-GIS provides local leadership and expertise related to GIS activities, programs, and decision; and
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Using the Road Reporter survey, you can report items such as potholes, standing water, flooding, damaged or missing road signs, dead animals, falling or sliding pavement, erosion, street light damage or outage, traffic light issues, or guardrail damage. Your response will be automatically forwarded to the appropriate city, county, or state agency responsible for maintaining the road identified in your submission.
GIS data comes from many sources. Many base data layers such as roads, buildings, streams, etc., are obtained from aerial photography and photogrammetric processes. Other data layers such as city boundaries, zoning, voting precincts, or property lines are gathered from legal descriptions, surveys, and other authoritative data sources.
Package delivery services use their own independent and proprietary mapping data for navigation, logistics and delivery services. LINK-GIS does not control or manage third-party location services such as Google Maps, Waze, or other navigation and delivery platforms. These providers maintain their own proprietary databases, and LINK-GIS does not have access to their data sources or the ability to update or correct their address information. Delays or inaccuracies in those navigation, logistics and delivery services rest solely with the provider of those services and are beyond the control of LINK-GIS.
Google Maps is a great tool for getting directions from one location to another, for creating an overall view of an area, and for visualizing the world through an on-ground perspective like ‘Street View’. However, Google’s data is private and proprietary, can change frequently, and is updated only at the discretion of Google. No background information about the data source (metadata) is provided publicly. It is unknown whether the photos are ortho-corrected (positionally accurate); and much of their photography is flown during the summer when trees are covered with leaves. LINK-GIS prefers “leaf-off” photography because it allows a clearer view of ground conditions, which is extremely important in land planning decisions. Finally, the data in Google is often copyrighted, raising legal issues and possible restrictions on its use.
