North Slope Infrastructure: Roads and Developed Areas

This North Slope Infrastructure update includes roads and developed areas as separate GIS feature classes. These GIS data represent maintained road infrastructure (line) and constructed gravel pads, excavations or village areas (polygons) on the North Slope of Alaska. Downloads are in shapefile and geodatabase format.

These data were originally compiled by Audubon in 2014 and provided to the BLM Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) project for the North Slope region. The data were updated by the Alaska Center for Conservation Science (ACCS) during the REA process and released for public distribution on the BLM REA website. The North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) has subsequently updated the REA product using available high resolution orthoimagery as a reference base during manual editing. Roads within villages have been updated using Alaska Department of Transportation GIS data. Road and developed area features have been assigned oil and gas unit designations using Alaska Division of Oil and Gas GIS data. All locations are approximate and accuracy will vary throughout the dataset. Appropriate use of these data is the responsibility of the user.

Data and Resources

• Download

  Download :: NS Infrastructure Geodatabase

  NSInfra_05182018_gdb.zip (2.44 MB)

• Download

  Download :: NS Infrastructure Shapefiles

  NSInfra_05182018_shp.zip (1.55 MB)