Building footprints: City of Kerrville GIS, FEMA USA Structures and Microsoft footprints

Summary. Three complementary building-footprint sources for the study area: the City of Kerrville's maintained footprints (with height, storeys, base elevation, roof form), FEMA/ORNL USA Structures (county-wide, occupancy and height), and Microsoft's Texas footprints (county-wide, geometry only).

Scenarify role. Building footprints (recommended) with optional ground level, roof level and type attributes; roof polygons; input to the DSM-DTM 3D building derivation. Note the Corral DTM is buildings-in, so footprints are for interception/visuals unless a bare-earth terrain is used.

Access. - Kerrville: public ArcGIS MapServer basemap/Public_Safety_v2, layers 9 (Building Footprints_1K) and 10 (MicrosoftBuildings_1K). The service exposes map/tile export only, not feature query, so a shapefile export must be requested from Kerrville GIS (kerrvilletx.gov/1101/GIS-Mapping-System). Attribute schema is visible via the layer endpoint: NUMSTORIES, BLDGHEIGHT, BASEELEV, EAVEHEIGHT, ROOFFORM, ROOFDIR, BLDGTYPE, BLDGNAME, FEATURECODE. - FEMA USA Structures: ArcGIS FeatureServer (queryable, 2000 records/page) and state deliverable zips. - Microsoft: Texas GeoJSON zip, no auth.

Format and CRS. Kerrville service Web Mercator (EPSG:3857); FEMA FeatureServer WGS84; Microsoft GeoJSON WGS84. Reproject to EPSG:6343.

Coverage. Kerrville city limits (city layer); Kerr County (FEMA, Microsoft). Products maintained since 2018 (Microsoft v2), 2022 (FEMA); city layer edited continuously.

Provenance and caveats. City footprints are the only source with heights and base elevations. FEMA heights are lidar-derived where available. Microsoft footprints are ML-extracted with no attributes. Buildings destroyed in July 2025 along the river are still present in all three.

Related. texas-terrain-1m-dtm-kerr-kendall, osm-geofabrik-texas-land-use.

Dataset extent

Data and Resources

  • City of Kerrville Public_Safety_v2 MapServerArcGIS MapServer

    Layers 9/10 buildings, 13 road centerlines, 15/16 parcels, 17 waterbodies, 18...

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  • Kerrville Building Footprints layer schemaJSON

    Field list incl. BLDGHEIGHT, NUMSTORIES, BASEELEV, EAVEHEIGHT, ROOFFORM.

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  • FEMA USA Structures FeatureServerArcGIS FeatureServer

    Query with a Kerr County envelope; fields OCC_CLS, PRIM_OCC, HEIGHT, SQFEET,...

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  • FEMA USA Structures downloadsHTML

    State deliverable geodatabases (Texas).

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  • Microsoft US Building Footprints, TexasGeoJSON (zip)

    ~10 M polygons statewide; filter to Kerr County.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Source https://www.kerrvilletx.gov/1101/GIS-Mapping-System
Version 2026-11-05
Author City of Kerrville GIS; FEMA/ORNL; Microsoft
Author Email City of Kerrville GIS; FEMA/ORNL; Microsoft
Maintainer William Mobley
Maintainer Email William Mobley
Temporal Coverage Start 2018-01-01
Temporal Coverage End 2026-11-05
Spatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-99.301, 30.1359], [-98.9201, 30.1383], [-98.9177, 29.7814], [-99.1763, 29.895], [-99.2796, 29.9042], [-99.6912, 29.9086], [-99.6899, 30.0739], [-99.7576, 30.0741], [-99.7541, 30.2907], [-99.3017, 30.2866], [-99.301, 30.1359]]]}