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This page is a work in progress! The content is likely incomplete, inaccurate or empty.
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government's Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various protection_title=* designations.
This wiki page attempts to document the status of units controlled wholly or partially by the National Park Service. Most of these are within the National Park System, of which there are 419 units.
Tagging
- Main article: United_States/Public_lands#National_Park_Service
Tagging of National Park Service (NPS) Areas
NPS
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Other Tags
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National Park Service
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Wilderness Area
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National Park
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2
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National Monument[1]
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22
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For small park-like monuments in an (often urban) landscaped/maintained area
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3
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For national monuments created from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features
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National Monument and Historic Shrine
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- National Recreation Area
- National Seashore
- National Lakeshore
- National Wild and Scenic River
- National Reserve
- National Parkway
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- National Historical Park
- National Historic Site
- International Historic Site
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One of these (depending on type of site):
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National Preserve
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- National Battlefield
- National Battlefield Site
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- National Military Park[2]
- National Battlefield Park
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National Memorial
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One or both of these (depending on type of site):
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- National Trail
- National Historic Trail
- National Scenic Trail
- National Recreation Trail
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The full route of a National Trails should tagged with a route relation as described below. The tagging in this row is applied only to federal land that is dedicated to the trail, its immediate right of way, or trail-specific features along the route. Protected area tagging should not be applied to areas where the trail is routed over non-federal land, trails, and/or highways.
- leisure=park for maintained/manicured dedicate federal park land
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So for example, for a National Park, "adding together" the tags from the correct three segments of this wiki yields:
The important priority for tagging OSM's NPS administered relations is standardization. While this wiki comprehensively denotes NPS units grouped by protection_title=*, it defers tagging to the standardization at the Main article.
There is also US National Park Service Tagging, early in the process of being harmonized with the Main article. As a sub-wiki to that, US_National_Park_Service_Tagging:_Boundaries was created to recommend tagging for national parks, but that page was never updated from 2013, is now (2020) superfluous and should be deleted, having been superceded by (draft) tagging recommendations in the above-noted Main article.
National parks
There are 63 national parks in the United States. 62 of them are finished in OSM. Overpass Query
National monuments
This is for national monuments administered by the National Park Service. There are other national monuments administered by other agencies. I will create a wiki page just for national monuments in the future. All NPS national monument boundaries are done! However, this does not mean that trails, amenities, and other POIs are finished.
An asterisk denotes national monuments administered as part of another area. For example, Oregon Caves National Monument is listed as Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve on the NPS website.
National preserves
National preserve on Wikipedia
National historical parks
National historical park |
Location |
Boundary status
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Abraham Lincoln Birthplace |
Kentucky |
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Adams Adams |
Massachussetts |
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Appomattox Court House Appomattox Court House |
Virginia |
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Blackstone River Valley |
Massachusetts, Rhode Island |
Boundary data not available
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Boston |
Massachusetts |
Unknown
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Cane River Creole Cane River Creole |
Louisiana |
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Cedar Creek and Belle Grove |
Virginia |
Boundary data not available
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Chaco Culture Chaco Culture |
New Mexico |
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal |
Virginia, Washington DC |
Boundary data not available
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Colonial Colonial |
Virginia |
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Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap |
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia |
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Dayton Aviation Heritage Dayton Aviation Heritage |
Ohio |
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First State First State |
Delaware, Pennsylvania |
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Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie |
South Carolina |
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George Rogers Clark George Rogers Clark |
Indiana |
Boundary is missing
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Golden Spike National Historical Park Golden Spike National Historical Park |
Utah |
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Harpers Ferry Harpers Ferry |
West Virginia |
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Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman |
New York |
Boundary is approximate according to note
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad |
Maryland |
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Hopewell Culture |
Ohio |
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Independence Independence |
Pennsylvania |
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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve |
Louisiana |
(counted as one unit despite double designation)
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Kalaupapa |
Hawaii |
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Kaloko-Honokōhau |
Hawaii |
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Keweenaw |
Michigan |
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Klondike Gold Rush (part of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park) |
Alaska, Washington |
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Lewis and Clark |
Oregon, Washington |
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Lowell |
Massachusetts |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
Texas |
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Manhattan Project |
New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington |
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller |
Vermont |
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
Georgia |
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Minute Man |
Massachusetts |
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Morristown Morristown |
New Jersey |
missing Jockey Hollow Area
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Natchez |
Mississippi |
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New Bedford Whaling |
Massachusetts |
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New Orleans Jazz |
Louisiana |
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Nez Perce |
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington |
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Ocmulgee Mounds |
Georgia |
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Palo Alto Battlefield |
Texas |
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Paterson Great Falls |
New Jersey |
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Pecos |
New Mexico |
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Puʻuhonua o Hōnauna |
Hawaii |
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Reconstruction Era |
South Carolina |
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Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front |
California |
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Saint-Gaudens |
New Hampshire |
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Salt River Bay |
U.S. Virgin Islands |
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San Antonio Missions |
New Mexico |
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San Francisco Maritime |
California |
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San Juan Island |
Washington |
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Saratoga |
New York |
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Sitka |
Alaska |
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Thomas Edison |
New Jersey |
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Tumacácori |
Arizona |
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Valley Forge Valley Forge |
Pennsylvania |
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War in the Pacific |
Guam |
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Women's Rights Women's Rights |
New York |
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National historic sites
National military parks
National battlefield parks
National battlefields
National battlefield site
There is only 1 national battlefield site remaining. Most have been redesignated as national battlefields/battlefield parks.
National memorials
National recreation areas
National seashores
National lakeshores
National (Wild & Scenic) Rivers
National reserves
National parkways
National parkway (boundary)
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National parkway (route) |
Location |
Boundary status
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Baltimore-Washington Parkway
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Baltimore-Washington Parkway Baltimore-Washington Parkway
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Maryland
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Blue Ridge Parkway Blue Ridge Parkway
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Blue Ridge Parkway Blue Ridge Parkway
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North Carolina, Virginia
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Colonial Parkway
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Virginia
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Boundary is part of Colonial National Historic Park
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Foothills Parkway
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Tennessee
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Right away is part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has not been seperated. Also, Parkway is not physically complete, and there are not current plans to complete it.
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George Washington Memorial Parkway
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Virginia
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Road exists. but boundary and route relation do not.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway
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Wyoming
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Natchez Trace Parkway Natchez Trace Parkway
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Natchez Trace Parkway Natchez Trace Parkway
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Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
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Oxon Run Parkway
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Washington DC, Maryland
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Legal Status unkown
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Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
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Washington DC
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Road exists on map, but boundary and route relation do not
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Suitland Parkway
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Maryland
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Boundary is partial, and only attributed to National Capital Parks
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National historic and scenic trails
- Main article: United States/National Trails System
Other areas
Resources
The National Park Service creates wonderful PDF maps of the parks. Harper's Ferry Center is a one-stop source for maps and park documentation. Some of those PDF documents are geospatial (geopdf) PDFs. Once they are converted into geotiff format, they can be used as a layer in JOSM to assist entering data. Use the US National Park Service Tagging as a guide when using National Park Service PDF maps to enter points of interest (POIs) into OpenStreetMap.
National Park Service GIS Data is available for download. GIS data from the NPS is public domain. However, any large-scale import of data should follow the Import/Guidelines.
http://npmaps.com/ provides hundreds of maps published by the National Park Service.
See also