About this site

A map of Salisbury, Connecticut showing parcel ownership and recorded land transactions. Each parcel links back to the public records it was drawn from, so any value displayed here can be traced to a source page.

This is a personal project, not affiliated with the Town of Salisbury. The town does not publish a bulk export of its records — everything here is assembled from the public-facing pages listed below.

Where the data comes from

Assessor records and recorded sales — Vision Government Solutions

MBLU, current owner, assessed value, acreage, and the sales history shown in each parcel's sidebar all come from the town's VGSI assessor cards. gis.vgsi.com/salisburyct

Deeper land records — SearchIQS (town clerk) Planned

Full recorded instruments — deeds, mortgages, releases, and the grantor index going further back than VGSI's sales table — live in the town clerk's SearchIQS portal at searchiqs.com/ctsal. That data is not yet integrated; the portal sits behind a Cloudflare anti-bot policy that blocks scraping, so a bulk-records request is being pursued instead.

Parcel polygons — CT ECO

Parcel boundary geometry comes from Connecticut's statewide parcel layer, published by CT ECO at UConn. cteco.uconn.edu/data/parcels

Base map — OpenStreetMap via CARTO

Street and terrain tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO. The "Aerial" basemap toggle uses Esri's World Imagery service. The "1934" basemap toggle is described in the next section.

Data last refreshed May 4, 2026. The VGSI scraper re-runs every Sunday.

Map overlays

The toggles in the map's overlay panel pull from public agency datasets, refreshed daily on our edge cache. Each layer's classifier and color ramp is defined by the source agency — we map those classes to colors but don't reinterpret the categories.

Flood zones — FEMA NFHL

Special Flood Hazard Areas from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer. Zones AE/A/AH/AO are the 1% annual chance ("100-year") floodplain; VE/V add coastal velocity hazard; X (shaded) is the 0.2% annual chance area; X (unshaded) is minimal hazard. Drawn from the NFHL FeatureServer, sub-layer 28. fema.gov/flood-maps/nfhl

Open space — CT DEEP Protected Open Space

Connecticut's statewide protected-lands inventory: state forests and parks, federal land (mostly NPS / USFWS), municipal open space, and land-trust holdings. Categories are CT DEEP's OS_TYPE classification; we color by category and label by OFFIC_NAME (e.g. "Mohawk State Forest"). portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Protected-Open-Space-Mapping

Conservation lands — CT DEEP POSM (private subset)

A narrower view of the same Protected Open Space inventory used by the open-space toggle, filtered to land held by non-governmental conservation entities — the OS_TYPE values Land Trust and Private. Land trust holdings are the Salisbury Association Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, and similar; "Private" covers other private conservation organizations that hold land in Salisbury under fee or easement (Mount Riga Inc., Housatonic Valley Association, Appalachian Mountain Club, Camp Sloane YMCA, the Northwest CT Rod & Gun Club). POSM does not flag fee-vs-easement directly, so we don't try to separate the two. State, federal, and municipal lands are excluded from this view — they're covered by the broader open-space toggle above. portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Protected-Open-Space-Mapping

Wetlands — CT NWI 2024

Connecticut's 2024 refresh of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's National Wetlands Inventory, hosted by CT DEEP. Polygons are classified byWETLAND_TYPE — forested/shrub, emergent, freshwater pond / lake / riverine, etc. NWI is a remote-sensing inventory and is not the regulatory wetlands map used by Salisbury's Inland Wetlands Commission. portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Inland-Wetlands · USFWS NWI

Aquifer protection — CT DEEP Aquifer Protection Areas

Land surface contributing recharge to a public-water-supply well drawing more than 50,000 gallons per day. Connecticut's APA Regulations divide them intoLevel A — most restrictive, immediately around the well's intake — and Level B, the broader recharge area pending hydrogeologic study. Both impose use restrictions on regulated activities (gas stations, dry cleaners, etc.). Drawn from the Aquifer Protection Areas v2 FeatureServer. portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Aquifer-Protection-and-Groundwater

Steep slopes — CT OPM (2023 LiDAR)

Polygons of land with slope ≥15%, derived by the Connecticut GIS Office from the state's 2023 spring lidar capture (10-foot DEM). Two bands shown — 15–20% (steep) and ≥20% (very steep) — matching common steep-slope ordinance thresholds. The source dataset also publishes 0–10% and 10–15% bands; we omit those because they cover most of the Salisbury landscape and would crowd out the actual signal. Polygons under ~0.5 acre are filtered out as raster-derived speckle. The data is effectively static (refreshed only when the state re-flies and re-derives) — seescripts/load-steep-slopes.ts for the loader. There is no automated refresh today. data.ct.gov/Connecticut-Steep-Slope-Areas · derivation method

Appalachian Trail — NPS centerline

The official trail centerline polyline maintained by the National Park Service and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. The AT crosses Salisbury's western edge past Lions Head and Bear Mountain (the highest point in Connecticut at 2,316 ft). nps.gov/appa

Hillshade — USGS 3DEP via Esri

Topographic shading derived from the USGS 3D Elevation Program, which over Connecticut incorporates the state's 2016 LiDAR collection (~1 m resolution). Served as raster tiles by Esri's World Hillshade service. usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program

1934 aerial photography — Fairchild / UConn MAGIC

Selectable from the basemap toggle as "1934". Black-and-white aerial photography of the entire state of Connecticut, captured by Fairchild Aerial Surveys in April–May 1934 at a scale of 1:12,000. The originals are held by the Connecticut State Library; the scanning, georeferencing, and mosaicking were done by UConn MAGIC, and the mosaic is hosted as a public ImageServer by CT ECO. Useful for seeing what a parcel looked like 90 years ago — pre-development pasture vs. today's woods, vanished farmsteads, abandoned roadbeds, the iron industry footprint at Ore Hill and Mt. Riga.

Three more overlays — absentee owners, value per acre, and recent sales — are derived from the assessor data above, not loaded from an external service. Absentee flags any parcel whose owner mailing address differs from the property address (with normalization for variants like RD vs ROAD); value-per-acre is the assessed value divided by acreage; recent sales colors each parcel by the year of its most recent qualifying sale on file.

Caveats

• Data is refreshed periodically, not in real time. The town's official records are authoritative.
• Information here is for informational purposes only — not a substitute for a title search, legal advice, or an official assessor's record.
• If you're the owner of a parcel and something looks wrong, please get in touch using the contact below.

Contact

Built by Jeff Cox. jeffcox@gmail.com