United States/Public lands/National Park Service
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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
- owner=United States Department of Interior, National Park Service
- operator=Name of the lessee (optionally, if there is a "concessionary" relationship by the NPS to a lessee)
- protected=perpetuity
- wikipedia=*
- wikidata=*
- website=*
NPS | protect_class=* | Other Tags | |
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National Park Service | |||
Wilderness Area | 1b |
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National Park | 2 | ||
National Monument | 22 | For small park-like monuments in an (often urban) landscaped/maintained area | |
3 | For national monuments created from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features | ||
National Monument and Historic Shrine |
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5 | ||
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One of these (depending on type of site): | ||
National Preserve | 6 | ||
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National Memorial |
One or both of these (depending on type of site): | ||
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5 | 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. | |
So for example, for a National Park, "adding together" the tags from the correct three segments of this wiki yields:
- ownership=national
- type=boundary
- boundary=protected_areaOR boundary=national_park[2]
- name=As issued by NPS
- access=yes
- fee=* where a fee is charged for entry.
- owner=United States Department of Interior, National Park Service
- operator=Name of the lessee (optionally, if there is a "concessionary" relationship by the NPS to a lessee)
- protected=perpetuity
- wikipedia=*
- wikidata=*
- website=*
- protection_title=National Park
- protect_class=2
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.
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 preserve | Location | Boundary status |
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Aniakchak![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Bering Land Bridge![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Big Cypress![]() | Florida | ![]() |
Big Thicket![]() | Texas | ![]() |
Craters of the Moon![]() | Idaho | ![]() |
Denali![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Gates of the Arctic![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Glacier Bay![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Great Sand Dunes![]() | Colorado | ![]() |
Katmai![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Lake Clark![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Little River Canyon![]() | Alabama | ![]() |
Mojave![]() | California | ![]() |
Noatak![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
New River Gorge![]() |
West Virginia | ![]() |
Tallgrass Prairie![]() | Kansas | ![]() |
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve![]() | Florida | ![]() |
Valles Caldera![]() | New Mexico | ![]() |
Wrangell–St. Elias![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Yukon-Charley Rivers![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
National historical parks
National historical park | Location | Boundary status |
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace![]() | Kentucky | ![]() |
Adams![]() | Massachussetts | ![]() |
Appomattox Court House![]() | Virginia | ![]() |
Blackstone River Valley | Massachusetts, Rhode Island | ![]() |
Boston | Massachusetts | Unknown |
Cane River Creole![]() | Louisiana | ![]() |
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove | Virginia | ![]() |
Chaco Culture![]() | New Mexico | ![]() |
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal | Virginia, Washington DC | ![]() |
Colonial![]() | Virginia | ![]() |
Cumberland Gap![]() | Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia | ![]() |
Dayton Aviation Heritage![]() | Ohio | ![]() |
First State![]() | Delaware, Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie![]() | South Carolina | ![]() |
George Rogers Clark![]() | Indiana | ![]() |
Golden Spike National Historical Park![]() | Utah | |
Harpers Ferry![]() | West Virginia | ![]() |
Harriet Tubman![]() | New York | ![]() |
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad | Maryland | |
Hopewell Culture | Ohio | |
Independence![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve | Louisiana | (counted as one unit despite double designation) |
Kalaupapa | Hawaii | |
Kaloko-Honokōhau | Hawaii | |
Keweenaw | Michigan | |
Klondike Gold Rush (part of Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park) | Alaska, Washington | |
Lewis and Clark | Oregon, Washington | |
Lowell | Massachusetts | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Texas | |
Manhattan Project | New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington | |
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller | Vermont | |
Martin Luther King Jr. | Georgia | |
Minute Man | Massachusetts | |
Morristown![]() | New Jersey | missing Jockey Hollow Area |
Natchez | Mississippi | |
New Bedford Whaling | Massachusetts | |
New Orleans Jazz | Louisiana | |
Nez Perce | Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington | |
Ocmulgee Mounds | Georgia | |
Palo Alto Battlefield | Texas | |
Paterson Great Falls | New Jersey | |
Pecos | New Mexico | |
Puʻuhonua o Hōnauna | Hawaii | |
Reconstruction Era | South Carolina | |
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front | California | |
Saint-Gaudens | New Hampshire | |
Salt River Bay | U.S. Virgin Islands | |
San Antonio Missions | New Mexico | |
San Francisco Maritime | California | |
San Juan Island | Washington | |
Saratoga | New York | |
Sitka | Alaska | |
Thomas Edison | New Jersey | |
Tumacácori | Arizona | |
Valley Forge![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
War in the Pacific | Guam | |
Women's Rights![]() | New York |
National historic sites
National historic site | Location | Boundary status |
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Aleutian World War II | Alaska | |
Allegheny Portage Railroad![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Andersonville | Georgia | |
Andrew Johnson | Tennessee | |
Bent's Old Fort | Colorado | |
Boston African American | Massachusetts | |
Brown v. Board of Education | Kansas | |
Carl Sandburg Home | North Carolina | |
Carter G. Woodson Home | Washington DC | |
Charles Pinckney | South Carolina | |
Chicago Portage | Illinois | |
Chimney Rock | Nebraska | |
Christiansted | U.S. Virgin Islands | |
Clara Barton | Maryland | |
Edgar Allan Poe![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Eisenhower![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Eleanor Roosevelt | New York | |
Eugene O'Neill | California | |
Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis | Ohio | |
First Ladies | Ohio | |
Ford's Theatre | Washington DC | |
Fort Bowie | Arizona | |
Fort Davis | Texas | |
Fort Laramie | Wyoming | |
Fort Larned | Kansas | |
Fort Point | California | |
Fort Raleigh | North Carolina | |
Fort Scott | Kansas | |
Fort Smith | Arkansas, Oklahoma | |
Fort Union Trading Post | Montana, North Dakota | |
Fort Vancouver | Washington, Oregon | |
Frederick Douglass | Washington DC | |
Frederick Law Olmsted | Massachusetts | |
Friendship Hill![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Gloria Dei Church![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Grant-Kohrs Ranch | Montana | |
Hampton | Maryland | |
Harry S Truman | Missouri | |
Herbert Hoover | Iowa | |
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site | South Carolina | |
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt | New York | |
Honouliuli | Hawaii | |
Hopewell Furnace![]() | Pennsylvania | update tags, check boundaries |
Hubbell Trading Post | Arizona | |
James A. Garfield | Ohio | |
Jamestown | Virginia | |
Jimmy Carter | Georgia | |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Massachusetts | |
John Muir | California | |
Kate Mullany | New York | |
Knife River Indian Villages | North Dakota | |
Lincoln Home | Illinois | |
Little Rock Central High School | Arkansas | |
Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters | Massachusetts | |
Lower East Side Tenement | New York | |
Maggie L. Walker | Virginia | |
Manzanar | California | |
Martin Van Buren | New York | |
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House | Washington DC | |
Minidoka | Idaho | |
Minuteman Missile | South Dakota | |
Nicodemus | Kansas | |
Ninety Six | South Carolina | |
Pennsylvania Avenue | Washington DC | |
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home | Arkansas | |
Puʻukoholā Heiau | Hawaii | |
Sagamore Hill | New York | |
Saint Paul's Church | New York | |
Salem Maritime | Massachusetts | |
San Juan | Puerto Rico | |
Sand Creek Massacre | Colorado | |
Saugus Iron Works | Massachusetts | |
Springfield Armory | Massachusetts | |
Steamtown![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace | New York | |
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural | New York | |
Thomas Cole | New York | |
Thomas Stone | Maryland | |
Touro Synagogue | Rhode Island | |
Tuskegee Airmen | Alabama | |
Tuskegee Institute | Alabama | |
Ulysses S. Grant | Missouri | |
Vanderbilt Mansion | New York | |
Washita Battlefield | Oklahoma | |
Weir Farm | Connecticut | |
Whitman Mission | Washington | |
William Howard Taft | Ohio | |
National military parks
National military park | Location | Boundary status |
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga![]() | Georgia, Tennessee | ![]() |
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial | Virginia | Work in Progress |
Gettysburg![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Guilford Courthouse![]() | North Carolina | |
Horseshoe Bend![]() | Alabama | |
Kings Mountain![]() | South Carolina | |
Pea Ridge![]() | Arkansas | |
Shiloh![]() | Tennessee, Mississippi | ![]() |
Vicksburg![]() | Mississippi, Louisiana |
National battlefield parks
National battlefield park | Location | Boundary status |
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Kennesaw Mountain | Georgia | |
Manassas | Virginia | |
Richmond | Virginia | |
River Raisin | Michigan |
National battlefields
National battlefield | Location | Boundary status |
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Antietam![]() | Maryland | ![]() |
Big Hole | Montana | |
Cowpens | South Carolina | |
Fort Donelson | Tennessee | ![]() |
Fort Necessity![]() | Pennsylvania | fix interfacing with Forbes SF |
Monocacy | Maryland | |
Moores Creek | North Carolina | |
Petersburg | Virginia | |
Stones River | Tennessee | |
Tupelo | Mississippi | |
Wilson's Creek | Missouri |
National battlefield site
There is only 1 national battlefield site remaining. Most have been redesignated as national battlefields/battlefield parks.
- Brices Cross Roads - Mississippi -
National memorials
National memorial | Location | Status |
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American Memorial Park | ||
Arkansas Post National Memorial | Arkansas | |
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial | Virginia | |
Benjamin Franklin National Memorial![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Chamizal National Memorial | Texas | |
Coronado National Memorial | Arizona | |
De Soto National Memorial | Florida | |
Father Marquette National Memorial | Michigan | |
Federal Hall National Memorial | New York | |
Flight 93 National Memorial![]() | Pennsylvania | update boundary and tags |
Fort Caroline National Memorial | Florida | |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial | District of Columbia | |
General Grant National Memorial | New York | |
Hamilton Grange National Memorial | New York | |
Johnstown Flood National Memorial![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Korean War Veterans Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial | Indiana | |
Lincoln Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac | District of Columbia | |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Mount Rushmore National Memorial | South Dakota | |
Oklahoma City National Memorial | Oklahoma | |
Pearl Harbor National Memorial | Hawaii | |
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial | Ohio | |
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial | California | |
Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial | Virginia | |
Roger Williams National Memorial | Rhode Island | |
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial![]() | Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Thomas Jefferson Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Washington Monument | District of Columbia | |
World War I Memorial | District of Columbia | |
World War II Memorial | District of Columbia | |
Wright Brothers National Memorial | North Carolina |
National recreation areas
National recreation area | Location | Boundary status |
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Amistad![]() | Texas | ![]() |
Bighorn Canyon![]() | Montana, Wyoming | ![]() |
Boston Harbor Islands![]() | Massachusetts | verify all islands are included |
Chattahoochee River![]() | Georgia | |
Chickasaw![]() | Oklahoma | |
Curecanti![]() | Colorado | |
Delaware Water Gap![]() | New Jersey, Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Gateway![]() | New Jersey, New York | |
Gauley River![]() | West Virginia | |
Glen Canyon![]() | Arizona, Utah | |
Golden Gate![]() | California | |
Lake Chelan![]() | Washington | |
Lake Mead![]() | Arizona, Nevada | |
Lake Meredith![]() | Texas | |
Lake Roosevelt![]() | Washington | |
Ross Lake![]() | Washington | |
Santa Monica Mountains![]() | California | |
Whiskeytown![]() | California |
National seashores
National Seashore | Location | Boundary status |
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Assateague Island![]() | Delaware | |
Canaveral![]() | Florida | ![]() |
Cape Cod![]() | Massachusetts | ![]() |
Cape Hatteras![]() | North Carolina | |
Cape Lookout![]() | North Carolina | |
Cumberland Island![]() | Georgia | |
Fire Island![]() | New York | ![]() |
Gulf Islands![]() | Florida | |
Padre Island![]() | Texas | |
Point Reyes![]() | California |
National lakeshores
National lakeshore | Location | Boundary status |
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Apostle Islands![]() | Wisconsin | |
Pictured Rocks![]() | Michigan | ![]() |
Sleeping Bear Dunes![]() | Michigan |
National (Wild & Scenic) Rivers
National river | Location | Boundary status |
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Alagnak Wild River![]() | Alaska | ![]() |
Au Sable National Scenic River![]() | Michigan | ![]() |
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area![]() | Tennessee | ![]() |
Bluestone National Scenic River![]() | West Virginia | ![]() |
Buffalo National River![]() | Arkansas | ![]() |
Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River | New Jersey | ![]() |
Middle Delaware National Scenic River | New Jersey, Pennsylvania | ![]() |
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area![]() | Minnesota | ![]() |
Missouri National Recreational River![]() | South Dakota, Nebraska | ![]() |
Niobrara National Scenic River![]() | Nebraska | ![]() |
Obed Wild and Scenic River![]() | Tennessee | ![]() |
Ozark National Scenic Riverways![]() | Missouri | ![]() |
Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River | Texas | ![]() |
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway![]() | Wisconsin, Minnesota | ![]() |
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River![]() | New York, Pennsylvania | ![]() |
National reserves
National reserve | Location | Boundary status |
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Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
City of Rocks National Reserve![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
National parkways
National parkway (boundary) | National parkway (route) | Location | Boundary status |
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Baltimore-Washington Parkway | Baltimore-Washington Parkway![]() |
Maryland | ![]() |
Blue Ridge Parkway![]() |
Blue Ridge Parkway![]() |
North Carolina, Virginia | ![]() |
Colonial Parkway | Virginia | ![]() | |
Foothills Parkway | Tennessee | ![]() | |
George Washington Memorial Parkway | Virginia | ![]() | |
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway![]() |
Wyoming | ![]() | |
Natchez Trace Parkway![]() |
Natchez Trace Parkway![]() |
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi | ![]() |
Oxon Run Parkway | Washington DC, Maryland | ![]() | |
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway | Washington DC | ![]() | |
Suitland Parkway | Maryland | ![]() |
National historic and scenic trails
- Main article: United States/National Trails System
Other areas
Name | Location | Notes/status |
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Catoctin Mountain Park![]() | Maryland | |
Historic Camden | South Carolina | |
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve | Wisconsin | |
International Peace Garden | ||
Inupiat Heritage Center | Alaska | |
Maine Acadian Cultural Center | Maine | |
National Capital Parks | Maryland,District of Columbia | |
Prince William Forest Park | Virginia | |
Roosevelt Campobello International Park | New Brunswick (Canada) | ![]() |
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience | Washington | |
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts | Virginia |
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.