SCO Annual Report Published for 2022-23

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

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

SCO Annual Report for 2020-21 Now Available

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

SCO Annual Report for 2019-20 now available

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

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

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.