Parcels Near Rail
Find parcels adjacent to railroad lines
Overview
Parcels Near Rail discovers parcels near FRA rail infrastructure — rail lines, crossings, and yards — sorted by proximity for site selection and noise exposure analysis.
How to use
Navigate to an area with rail
Pan and zoom to a region with railroad infrastructure. The app requires zoom level 14 or higher to load parcel data.
Read parcel colors
Parcels are colored by distance to rail: red (0–50 m), orange (50–100 m), yellow (100–300 m), green (300+ m).
Read rail infrastructure
Rail lines appear in purple, crossings as amber dots, and yards as red dots.
Review value statistics
The side panel shows average property value per acre by distance bucket, so you can see how proximity to rail affects assessed value.
Inspect parcels
Click any parcel for its address, land use, acreage, and distance to rail.
Data layers
Parcel boundaries, addresses, acreage, land use, and assessed value from the nationwide parcel layer.
Federal Railroad Administration rail infrastructure — line geometries, highway-rail crossings, and yard boundaries.
Sharing
The map URL encodes the center point and zoom level. The parameters are lon, lat, and z.