Bedford County Building Footprints - Open Data

The Building layer is a spatial representation of all addressable structures within Bedford County, VA, as well as many non-addressable structures. These non-addressable structures include barns, boat docks, out-buildings, storage buildings, etc. The source of this data is the combination of many intermittent updates conducted through the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP). The most recent update came from Orthophotography collected from VBMP's 2022 flight year.

The original dataset was based on 1992 B/W orthophotography at 200" and 400" scales. In 2009, Bedford County contracted with Sanborn Map Company, Inc. to develop planimetric data based on the 2007 photography. The dataset was once again updated in 2018 and 2022 through the VBMP.

GIS Staff is in the continual process of attributing building features with the name of the structure (e.g., church name, business name, etc.). This attribute information is valuable as a Landmark feature for Dispatchers in the PSAP, to show common, well-known structures and places within the County.