Adirondack Park Land Use Area Statistics

Adirondack Park Land Use Classification Statistics
March 3, 2009

Land Use Classification Acreage and Percent of County within the Adirondack Park - March 2009
Land Use Classification	Clinton	Essex	Franklin	Fulton	Hamilton	Herkimer	Lewis	Oneida	Saratoga	St. Lawrence	Warren	Washington	total park acres, total park percent
Hamlet	3,048	18,994	7,075	3,623	4,819	1,528	0	239	1,250	2,180	10,884	0	53,640
	0.93%	1.55%	0.96%	1.78%	0.42%	0.27%	0%	1.44%	0.84%	0.35%	1.94%	0%	0.92%
Moderate Intensity	7,174	20,301	9,329	4,768	12,422	4,421	1,635	1,303	5,584	2,518	25,143	4,972	99,569
	2.20%	1.66%	1.27%	2.35%	1.07%	0.79%	0.99%	7.84%	3.75%	0.40%	4.49%	4.88%	1.71%
Low Intensity	31,226	77,528	21,063	17,929	28,064	22,388	11,619	42	10,199	2,396	38,529	8,038	269,021
	9.55%	6.33%	2.86%	8.82%	2.43%	4.01%	7.05%	0.25%	6.85%	0.38%	6.89%	7.88%	4.62%
Rural Use	121,406	184,649	132,869	47,469	42,815	50,458	40,512	7,214	73,465	96,081	170,352	42,096	1,009,385
	37.15%	15.08%	18.04%	23.36%	3.70%	9.03%	24.57%	43.41%	49.37%	15.42%	30.44%	41.29%	17.34%
Resource Management	72,358	300,703	271,400	28,955	236,296	106,342	49,715	470	32,917	322,444	76,263	20,872	1,518,735
	22.14%	24.56%	36.84%	14.25%	20.44%	19.03%	30.16%	2.83%	22.12%	51.75%	13.63%	20.47%	26.09%
Industrial Use	58	6,319	628	0	140	0	0	0	0	3,927	1,359	0	12,430
	0.02%	0.52%	0.09%	0%	0.01%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.63%	0.24%	0%	0.21%
Wilderness	0	336,561	57,222	0	444,426	134,781	4,678	0	0	54,850	62,667	0	1,095,185
	0%	27.48%	7.77%	0%	38.44%	24.12%	2.84%	0%	0%	8.80%	11.20%	0%	18.81%
Canoe Area	0	0	17,647	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17,647
	0%	0%	2.40%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.30%
Primitive	952	21,715	7,797	0	13,772	122	0	0	0	21,554	311	0	66,224
	0.29%	1.77%	1.06%	0%	1.19%	0.02%	0%	0%	0%	3.46%	0.06%	0%	1.14%
Wild Forest	49,878	166,069	167,905	74,832	310,676	207,543	51,727	6,586	14,472	87,690	127,565	22,354	1,287,296
	15.26%	13.56%	22.79%	36.82%	26.87%	37.14%	31.38%	39.64%	9.73%	14.07%	22.80%	21.93%	22.11%
Intensive Use	337	6,661	1,763	303	2,228	1,512	0	0	5	273	6,397	280	19,757
	0.10%	0.54%	0.24%	0.15%	0.19%	0.27%	0%	0%	0.00%	0.04%	1.14%	0.27%	0.34%
Historic	0	530	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	530
	0%	0.04%	0.00%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.01%
State Administrative	732	341	427	0	118	0	0	0	0	10	37	0	1,665
	0.22%	0.03%	0.06%	0%	0.01%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.00%	0.01%	0%	0.03%
Pending Classification	20,210	7,587	333	2,242	1,929	1,414	393	36	782	680	179	0	35,785
	6.18%	0.62%	0.05%	1.10%	0.17%	0.25%	0.24%	0.21%	0.53%	0.11%	0.03%	0%	0.61%
Water	19,452	76,614	41,235	23,118	58,469	28,361	4,582	727	10,128	28,476	39,918	3,337	334,415
	5.95%	6.26%	5.60%	11.37%	5.06%	5.07%	2.78%	4.38%	6.81%	4.57%	7.13%	3.27%	5.74%
County Total Acreage	326,832	1,224,570	736,691	203,240	1,156,172	558,869	164,862	16,617	148,802	623,077	559,603	101,949	5,821,283
County as % of Park	5.6%	21%	12.7%	3.5%	20%	9.6%	2.8%	0.3%	2.6%	10.7%	9.6%	1.8%
% County as Private	72.0%	49.7%	60.0%	50.6%	28.1%	33.1%	62.8%	55.8%	82.9%	68.9%	57.6%	74.5%
% County as State Land	22.1%	44.1%	34.4%	38.1%	66.9%	61.8%	34.5%	39.9%	10.3%	26.5%	35.2%	22.2%

March 2009 Parkwide Acreage
Private Land	2,962,780	50.90%
State Land	2,524,088	43.36%
Water	334,415	5.74%
Total Park	5,821,282	100.0%

March 2009 Percent of All Private Land in the Park
Hamlet	1.8%
Moderate Intensity	3.4%
Low Intensity	9.1%
Rural Use	34.1%
Resource Management	51.3%
Industrial Use	0.4%
All Private Land	100.0%

March 2009 Percent of All State Land in the Park
Wilderness	43.4%
Canoe Area	0.7%
Primitive	2.6%
Wild Forest	51.0%
Intensive Use	0.8%
Historic	0.02%
State Administrative	0.1%
Pending Classification	1.4%
All State Land	100.0%

These statistics were generated from the Adirondack Park Agency Geographic Information System Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan and State Land Map database.
Although acreage figures are shown to one acre accuracy, the geographic information used for area calcuations is approximate. Base map features such as roads, surface water, and municipal boundaries are mapped at one inch equals two thousand feet. Parcel boundaries are derived from several sources including County Real Property Tax Map data, Department of Environmental Conservation Real Property data and Department of Transportation base maps. Due to map scale of source information, these data are intended for regional planning purposes.
County acreage totals represent the portion of the county within the Adirondack Park. Only Essex and Hamilton counties are wholly within the Adirondack Park.
As of 2009, state lands Pending Classification that surround Great Sacandaga Lake are under the jurisdiction of the Hudson River - Black River Regulating District.
More information about land use area classifications can be found in the Adirondack Park Agency Act (pdf 294kb) and the State Land Master Plan (pdf 440kb). In addition, see descriptions of private and state land use classifications at www.apa.ny.gov.