Description: Drainage districts are local bodies formed for the purpose of draining, ditching, and improving land for agricultural and sanitary purposes. They are authorized to build and maintain drains and levees, to sue all necessary private land within their corporate bodies for that purpose, and to tax land within their boundaries as necessary.
Description: School district boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name, address and district number.
Name: Fire Protection District and Municipal Fire Departments
Display Field: NAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: These boundaries represent either a Fire Protection Taxing District or a municipal fire department and are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the fire service provider name and address.
Description: Fire district boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name, address and district number.
Description: School district boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name, address and district number.
Description: The Central Lake County Joint Action Water Agency (JAWA) is a consortium of the municipalities of Grayslake, Gurnee, Lake Bluff, Libertyville, Mundelein, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Round Lake Heights, Round Lake Park and Lake County Government representing the communities of Knollwood/Rondout, Vernon Hills and Wildwood for the purpose of supplying Lake Michigan water to these geographic areas.
Description: Library district boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name, address and district number.
Description: Municipal boundaries are based on annexations, court orders and other legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel boundaries or to the underlying PLSS. Important attributes include "Type" which contains an "I" if the polygon represents an incorporated area, and a "U" if unincorporated. The municipality name for "I" type polygons is included in the attribute "NAME1."
Description: Park district boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name, address and district number.
Name: Special Service Areas and Tax Increment Finance Areas
Display Field: NAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: SSA and TIF boundaries are based on legal documents filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds and on court orders. Mapping is based on the legal descriptions from those documents, which relate to existing parcel, municipal, township and PLSS features. Attributes include the district name and address.