SCO Publications

SCO Strategic Framework 2024

August 23, 2024

This 2024 Strategic Framework was developed by the staff of the State Cartographer’s Office from 2023-24. It is used as a guide to help ensure that activities of the office align to identified strategic priorities.

SCO Annual Report Published for 2022-23

September 22, 2023

Our 2022-2023 Annual Report has been published and is available on our publications page.

State Cartographer’s Office Annual Report for 2021-22 Now Available

September 20, 2022

Find out what the SCO has been working on over the last year.

SCO Annual Report for 2020-21 Now Available

August 19, 2021

Our latest annual report covers SCO activities from July 2020 to June 2021.

SCO Annual Report for 2019-20 now available

August 13, 2020

We have published our 2019-20 Annual Report.

State Cartographer’s Office Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2020

Report of State Cartographer’s Office activities from July 2019 through June 2020.

Survey Control Finder

February 7, 2018

Survey Control Finder is a mobile-friendly web app that provides a central point of access to over 28,000 control points and over 200,000 Public Land Survey System records in Wisconsin.

Statewide PLSS database to be developed

The V4 Parcel Project will include the collection and aggregation of local Public Land Survey System corner data, culminating in an initial statewide PLSS database.

Parcelization in rural agricultural and forested landscapes in Wisconsin, 1972–2007

August 1, 2017

This study, published in the Journal of Land Use Science, examines the social, economic, geographic/biophysical, and regulatory factors underlying parcelization — the subdivision of large landholdings — in rural Wiscosnin over a period of 35 years. Results paint a unique picture of the complex interplay of historic and contemporary parcelization drivers.