Adirondack Park Land Use Area Statistics

Adirondack Park Land Use Classification Statistics
August 2, 2011

Land Use Classification Acreage and Percent of County within the Adirondack Park - August 2011
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	19,090	7,079	3,623	4,819	1,528	0	239	1,250	2,174	10,881	0	53,732
	0.93%	1.56%	0.96%	1.78%	0.40%	0.27%	0%	1.44%	0.84%	0.35%	1.94%	0%	0.92%
Moderate Intensity	7,174	20,225	9,329	4,768	12,414	4,421	1,635	1,303	5,584	2,518	25,133	4,972	99,476
	2.20%	1.65%	1.27%	2.35%	1.04%	0.79%	0.99%	7.84%	3.75%	0.40%	4.49%	4.88%	1.70%
Low Intensity	31,226	77,497	21,063	17,930	28,044	22,388	11,621	42	10,199	2,456	38,530	8,038	269,034
	9.55%	6.33%	2.86%	8.82%	2.35%	4.01%	7.05%	0.25%	6.85%	0.39%	6.89%	7.88%	4.59%
Rural Use	121,412	184,708	132,887	47,470	42,815	50,459	40,511	7,214	73,466	96,091	170,354	42,097	1,009,485
	37.15%	15.08%	18.04%	23.36%	3.58%	9.03%	24.57%	43.41%	49.37%	15.42%	30.44%	41.29%	17.23%
Resource Management	72,363	300,210	271,403	28,890	236,279	106,315	49,717	470	32,922	322,377	76,182	20,873	1,518,000
	22.14%	24.52%	36.84%	14.21%	19.78%	19.02%	30.16%	2.83%	22.12%	51.74%	13.61%	20.47%	25.90%
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	356,761	57,235	0	460,318	134,795	4,722	0	0	61,634	62,957	0	1,138,423
	0%	29.13%	7.77%	0%	38.53%	24.12%	2.86%	0%	0%	9.89%	11.25%	0%	19.43%
Canoe Area	0	0	17,646	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17,646
	0%	0%	2.40%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.30%
Primitive	952	7,740	7,796	0	13,733	122	0	0	0	15,111	101	0	45,756
	0.29%	0.63%	1.06%	0%	1.15%	0.02%	0%	0%	0%	2.43%	0.02%	0%	0.78%
Wild Forest	69,723	167,665	167,999	75,166	293,466	208,575	51,977	6,588	14,473	88,029	127,706	22,354	1,293,721
	21.33%	13.69%	22.79%	36.98%	24.56%	37.32%	31.53%	39.64%	9.73%	14.13%	22.82%	21.93%	22.08%
Intensive Use	337	6,682	1,764	303	5,035	1,626	0	0	5	275	6,399	280	22,705
	0.10%	0.55%	0.24%	0.15%	0.42%	0.29%	0%	0%	0.00%	0.04%	1.14%	0.27%	0.39%
Historic	0	530	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	531
	0%	0.04%	0.00%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.01%
State Administrative	1,045	356	427	8	152	0	0	0	0	33	46	0	2,067
	0.32%	0.03%	0.06%	0%	0.01%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.01%	0.01%	0%	0.04%
Pending Classification	44	90	48	1,967	366	273	104	34	919	2	30	0	3,877
	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%	0.97%	0.03%	0.05%	0.06%	0.21%	0.62%	0.11%	0.01%	0%	0.07%
Water	19,454	76,717	41,201	23,117	97,118	28,375	4,577	727	9,988	28,462	39,936	3,337	373,009
	5.95%	6.26%	5.59%	11.37%	8.13%	5.08%	2.78%	4.38%	6.71%	4.57%	7.14%	3.27%	6.37%
County Total Acreage	326,837	1,224,591	736,704	203,243	1,194,700	558,879	164,864	16,617	148,805	623,088	559,614	101,951	5,859,893
County as % of Park	5.58%	20.9%	12.57%	3.47%	20.39%	9.54%	2.81%	0.28%	2.54%	10.63%	9.55%	1.74%
% County as Private	71.99%	49.65%	60.05%	50.52%	27.16%	33.12%	62.77%	55.77%	82.94%	68.94%	57.62%	74.53%
% County as State Land	22.06%	44.08%	34.36%	38.1%	64.71%	61.8%	34.45%	39.85%	10.35%	26.49%	35.25%	22.2%

August 2011 Parkwide Acreage
Private Land	2,962,157	50.55%
State Land	2,524,726	43.08%
Water	373,009	6.37%
Total Park	5,859,893	100.0%

August 2011 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%

August 2011 Percent of All State Land in the Park
Wilderness	45.1%
Canoe Area	0.7%
Primitive	1.8%
Wild Forest	51.2%
Intensive Use	0.9%
Historic	0.02%
State Administrative	0.08%
Pending Classification	0.15%
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.