The Minnesota Walk-In Access site (WIA) GIS data represents areas of private land that have been made open to the public for the purpose of walk-in (foot travel) only hunting...

15-Foot Standard: Polygons showing the DNR Fisheries calculated littoral zone based on a standard 15-foot depth contour. For this standard, all lake areas 0-15 feet in depth are...

Southeastern Minnesota is part of the Upper Mississippi Valley Karst that includes southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa. In Minnesota, surface karst features (including...

This layer shows the locations of wildfires for which the DNR was the primary responding agency. These include fires not only on state lands, but also rural private lands for...

This dataset contains liquid waste receiving sites (LWR) within in the MCES regional wastewater system. These sites accept the discharge of hauled wastewater and are regulated...

WMAs are part of the Minnesota state recreation system created to protect wildlife habitat and provide wildlife-based recreation. Facilities and features are labeled based on a...

These are provisional representations of Public Waters Basins (lakes, wetlands) and Watercourses (streams, altered channels) as depicted on the scanned paper regulatory maps and...

This file geodatabase includes the following individual layers:Lake Bathymetric Contours: Contours lines corresponding to lake bathymetry, digitized from existing lake contour...

This dataset contains MCES owned/operated water resource recovery facilities (WRRF) which treat wastewater conveyed by the MCES regional wastewater system. The dataset does not...

This wetland classification scheme was originally developed for a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) effort to establish protective permit thresholds for...

The State of Minnesota issues peat leases on state-owned and state-administered fee surface interests. These layers are of active or historic State peat leases, administered by...

The State of Minnesota issues mineral leases on state-owned and state-administered fee mineral interests. The lease types include iron ore, taconite, industrial mineral,...

This dataset contains MCES rain gauges in the Twin Cities seven county metro area. MCES uses rain gauges for flow monitoring, planning, inflow/infiltration (I/I) analysis, and...

This dataset was developed to divide areas within the Twin Cities Metro Area into smaller, geographic regions. These sewershed boundaries are classified as currently served,...

Multi-partner effort to record GPS locations of terrestrial invasive species on DNR lands and other locations in Minnesota. Data is downloaded from EDDMapS Midwest...

This geodatabase contains geospatial point locations and tabular data that represent public fishing sites in Minnesota. This dataset was derived from authoritative sources in...

Lake Basin MorphologyLake polygons with an attribute table of morphometric indices which describe the physical form and structure (morphology) of a lake.Lake Basin Fetch and...

A multi-partner effort to record the locations of aquatic invasive species in waterbodies throughout the state. Points indicate presence and/or approximate physical locations of...

The data set includes information on dam locations in Minnesota and associated permits.

State owned surface interests, including fee surface, easement in, lease in, and agreement, administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, mapped to the PLS...