Texas GIS Forum

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TexMesonet, a comprehensive network of meteorological monitoring stations across Texas, played a crucial role in capturing detailed atmospheric data during the 2021 Texas winter storm. Known as a "network of networks," TexMesonet integrates data from a wide array of sources, including governmental, academic, and private sector weather stations. This extensive network provides high-resolution, real-time meteorological observations that are essential for understanding and responding to extreme weather events. (Made using ArcGIS PRO, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop)

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Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs) in Texas with abandoned water well cost share plugging programs are highlighted in the online map, and pop-ups for each of these GCDs provide a summary of their program and contact information. This online map was created in 2022 based on 2020 GCD Index survey data and 24 GCDs reported that they had plugging programs. It was updated in 2024 with 2023 data when 31 GCDs reported programs.

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The purpose of the Gulf Public Beach Access Points map is to show the different access points for Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and Mustang Island and what amenities each point has.  It was created using ArcGIS Pro. This map also won 1st place for the URISA Texas 2024-2025 scholarship. 

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The Galveston Bay Regional Monitoring Database (RMD) is an interactive portal that provides quality-assured data to support the conservation and management of the Galveston Bay system. The RMD Land and Impervious Cover dashboard is one of the RMD's interactive tools that shows the historical and current land cover. It also shows historical and current imperviousness data. More interactive tools and data can be found at the RMD site https://galvbaydata.org/

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This map displays flood impacts to buildings along Brays Bayou that were affected by flooding during Hurricane Harvey. The map utilizes a raster layer exhibiting maximum inundation extent and depth, intersected with open-source building footprint data gathered from Open Street Map (OSM). Flood depth from the raster layer is symbolized using a color gradient, and the resultant building impacts are determined by the flood depths at those locations. Building impacts are displayed using a standardized symbology of minor, moderate, and severe impacts as determined by the flood depth.

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Redesign of a Texas State Park including facilities, amenities, notes from the original map, plus shaded relief, contours, and spot elevations. Multiple layers were downloaded including: Trail data, state park boundary, and logo for Palo Duro Canyon from Texas Parks and Wildlife, contours from StratMap, hydrography from TNRIS, satellite imagery from NAIP, National Elevation Dataset from USGS, roads from TxDOT. The map was created using ArcGIS Pro. The cabin (without bathroom), water and electric sites, and burn ban icons were created using Adobe Photoshop. Permission to showcase this map using the TWPD logo was received in June 2024.

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This map depicts the historical phenomenon of yellow fever deaths in Texas and Louisiana from 1791-1873. For much of early American history, yellow fever was a deadly and dreaded illness that plagued the country. Using primary sources as its basis, this map reveals the extent of yellow fever deaths across time and the travel routes that worsened the spread of the illness. It was created for the GLO StoryMap Plague of the South: Yellow Fever Turmoil in Texas, 1839 – 1905, part of the GLO’s Texas Hidden History series.

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