Adirondack Park
Land Use Area Statistics -- Acreage by Town and Land
Use Classification -- August, 2000
| Chester |
Hamlet |
1459.5 |
| Chester |
Moderate Intensity |
7767.5 |
| Chester |
Low Intensity |
6163.3 |
| Chester |
Rural Use |
30970.2 |
| Chester |
Resource Management |
5116.4 |
| Chester |
Industrial Use |
117.3 |
| Chester |
Wild Forest |
1994.1 |
| Chester |
Intensive Use |
171.9 |
| Chester |
Open Water |
1947.5 |
| Chester |
total |
55707.6 |
- These statistics were generated from the Adirondack Park Agency land classification geographic
information system database. The source maps digitized were 1:24,000 scale (one inch
equals two thousand feet) NYS DOT planimetric base maps. Land use area boundaries are
derived from roads, surface water, municipal boundaries, property boundaries, and various
setbacks from any of these features. In some cases, property boundaries were plotted at
1:24,000 scale from county tax maps or survey maps by APA cartographers.
- Please keep in mind that although acreage figures are shown down to a tenth of an acre
accuracy, the width of a pencil line on a 1:24,000 scale map is appoximately 50 feet on
the ground.
- Town acreage totals are for in-park portions of the towns. Only Essex and Hamilton
counties are wholly within the Adirondack Park.