Getting a quad and county from the web when you have a latitude and longitude - 5/29/2007

If you have a latitude and longitude but do not know the quad or county name, you may obtain that info from the Kentucky Hunting and Fishing mapping web site at http://kygeonet.ky.gov/kdfwr/viewer.htm

Near the top of the screen of that web site, on the toolbar are 2 buttons that will allow you to zoom to your location and get the quad and county name.

First click on the Zoom to Lat/long tool. This tool allows you to type in a Latitude and Longitude in several different coordinate systems and then zooms to that location on the map and places a dot on the map. Be sure to select the datum that matches how you collected the coordinates. Clicking the tool button will bring up a screen and you should enter your latitude and longitude. If you are entering in decimal degrees, there is no need to enter more than 6 digits to the right of the decimal place. For example I have a site near the KDFWR headquarters I would enter as follows

After you have zoomed to the location you should recognize on the map the location as where you saw the animal to be reported. You should then select the “Get a Lat/Long (Point locator) tool and click on the map where the dot was displayed. A new window will pop up with the County and Quad at the top. If you have popup windows blocked, you may need to disable them before using this tool (if you are using the Google toolbar popup blocker, it can be temporarily disabled by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking).

If you have decimal degrees, this will also display the coordinates in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds which may be required for data entry. The fish and wildlife web site has additional capabilities for zooming into an area. Web site http://kygeonet.ky.gov/imshelp/ has complete help for the site.