To help respond to the declared Natural Disaster in Richland County, the county GIS team has worked with numerous partners to provide recovery and assessment support. As part of that effort, several geospatial tools have been developed and are available for use by local authorities for coordination efforts and to the public for information including a Road and Dam Status Viewer, a Flood Inundation Tool, and a Flood Data Viewer. Thanks to Woolpert Inc. and Google for their support.

Is your property in the floodplain or floodway? You can find out using Richland County GIS mapping. Open the layers panel, choose Hydrology & Flooding, and turn on the FEMA Flood Zones layer. Use the search feature to find your property by street address or tax map number. Property owners will still need to confirm their property's status with FEMA or Richland County. (Note that this mapping application is the 'old version' which contains the FEMA floodway and floodplain overlays.)

Gills Creek Watershed Map showing the watershed boundary and municipal boundaries, roads, lakes and streams within the watershed. Produced in 2012 by Fuss & O'Neill for the Gills Creek Watershed Association and the Richland County Conservation Commission.

Gills Creek Watershed Map showing the watershed boundary and elevations within the watershed. Produced in 2012 by Fuss & O'Neill for the Gills Creek Watershed Association and the Richland County Conservation Commission.

Watershed illustration from the article "Aging dams spark questions in waterlogged Columbia" in The State paper.

SC Department of Natural Resources interactive journal of the 2015 rain event and subsequent flooding presented through data and maps showing the conditions which contributed to the disaster.

This map shows stormwater drainage for Sherwood Forest, Shandon, Heathwood, and Melrose Heights and was produced by Jason Hetrick at McCormick Taylor for the GCWA Watershed Management Plan.