Resource Links

Official Texas statute covering municipal boundaries and extraterritorial jurisdiction, useful for identifying which local development authority may apply to a site.

Free directory for locating Texas cities and municipal contacts, useful when confirming planning, zoning, permitting, and development-review departments.

Statewide directory of Texas counties and county officials, useful for locating county engineering, development, road, floodplain, and records contacts.

U.S. Census Bureau data explorer for population, housing, income, employment, commuting, business, and demographic data used in market and feasibility analysis.

Interactive Census mapping application for boundaries, roads, places, census geographies, and other TIGER/Line features.

Free employment, wage, labor-force, industry, and economic datasets useful for market feasibility, workforce, and economic analysis.

Free regional GDP, personal income, industry, and economic accounts data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas.

Interactive Texas map for oil, gas, pipeline, survey, well, and related regulatory data. Pipeline layers can be queried by county, operator, permit, system, and other attributes.

Year-by-year lists of newly issued Texas pipeline permits. Useful for identifying recently permitted operators, systems, and development activity.

Public map of PHMSA-jurisdictional gas transmission and hazardous-liquid pipelines, LNG plants, breakout tanks, operator contacts, and pipeline incidents.

Current federal pipeline-safety regulations for transportation of natural and other gas by pipeline.

Statewide source for downloadable Texas geospatial data, including imagery, elevation, parcels and other mapping datasets used in site and development analysis.

Collection of Texas web-mapping applications, GIS tools, APIs, and utilities for viewing and working with statewide geospatial information.

Free national topographic and geospatial data including elevation, hydrography, boundaries, structures, transportation, and downloadable GIS layers.

Authoritative NRCS soil survey resource for viewing soil maps and evaluating soil characteristics and interpretations relevant to land-use and site-development screening.

Texas GLO mapping resources for state lands, coastal resources, historical information, and other geospatial datasets relevant to property and coastal development research.

Official Texas statute governing municipal subdivision platting and property-development regulation, including plat approval procedures and related municipal authority.

Official Texas statute governing county subdivision platting requirements and county regulation of subdivisions outside municipal limits.

Official Texas statute addressing subdivision-regulation authority and agreements between municipalities and counties in extraterritorial jurisdictions.

County-by-county directory of appraisal districts and tax offices. Useful for locating parcel, ownership, appraisal, taxing-unit, and tax-certificate resources used in plat and development due diligence.

Directory for locating county clerk offices that maintain recorded plats, deeds, easements, and other real-property records.

Interactive national map showing reported fixed and mobile broadband availability, providers, technologies, and service areas at location and area levels.

FCC resources on state and local review of wireless-facility siting, including federal requirements affecting eligible facilities requests and deployment review.

Texas broadband mapping resources, including links and guidance for using the FCC National Broadband Map and state broadband planning information.

Texas DOT right-of-way resources including forms, RULIS access, utility and leasing information, survey resources, and real-property materials.

Texas one-call utility notification service and public education resource for safe excavation. Use before digging; not a substitute for independent utility due diligence during planning.

Interactive map for researching certificated water and sewer service areas in Texas, useful for early utility-service and jurisdictional due diligence.

Interactive map for screening mapped flood hazards and floodplain information from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer.

Texas flood-planning datasets and geospatial resources compiled for regional and statewide flood planning.

Interactive Texas map showing groundwater wells, aquifers, groundwater conservation districts, geologic units, well reports, and related groundwater data.

Map-based hydrology tool for delineating drainage areas, obtaining basin characteristics, and estimating streamflow statistics where available.

Official Texas statute governing municipal zoning authority, zoning regulations, zoning commissions, boards of adjustment, and related procedures.

Official Texas statute addressing project permitting, regulatory requirements, and vesting of development regulations for qualifying projects.