Monroe County GIS Division

We've been working with our colleagues from Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County and recently updated our Safe Place Dashboard. The new iteration features a dashboard showing the 107 locations of Safe Places across Monroe, Brown, Greene, and Owen Counties, as well as a Safe Place locator that allows users to find the Safe Place nearest to them with walking directions. You can find it here:

https://gis.co.monroe.in.us/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=39f33d6fda0f4cf3b60305e85970461f

Safe Place is a program designed to provide access to immediate help and safety to young people at risk of abuse, neglect or serious family problems. Businesses, community buildings and buses that are designated as Safe Place sites prominently display a distinctive yellow and black Safe Place logo. Any youth can walk into a Safe Place and let an employee know that they need help. They are then quickly connected with a youth serving agency that can provide the help they need.

Monroe County is experiencing an extreme heat warning until July 3rd. We've worked with our colleagues in Monroe County Emergency Management to develop a map that shows cooling stations across Monroe County. This is mobile friendly application that will help you identify the closest station near you:

https://gis.co.monroe.in.us/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=b5929853f11942449323bf2c225b6fc9

Aerial imagery captured by the European Space Agency and displayed on their Copernicus Browser shows the damage path left by the tornado that struck the northern part of the County on June 17th. We've taken this and paired it with imagery from June 5th to provide a before and after depiction of the tornado's route. You can explore more imagery from the Copernicus Browser here:
https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/?zoom=12&lat=39.22654&lng=-86.53416&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=U2FsdGVkX1%2FFYJyBpYXga2cxjff8gQXR9l8jCvq2B46KV1qtrUTIVIq1NhdzRqbROQAC0c54jEDKMIpbv1OuhjisuCY9Ze7wGYK8gUR7vHp%2B%2FXZc2LbAOGN0eaTXmgJb&datasetId=S2_L2A_CDAS&fromTime=2026-06-20T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2026-06-20T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=1_TRUE_COLOR&demSource3D=%22MAPZEN%22&cloudCoverage=30&dateMode=SINGLE

Are you interested in how land cover across Monroe County has changed over time? Well, we've got the perfect application for you! Our new interactive National Land Cover Dataset Viewer shows contiguous land cover across Monroe County in yearly intervals dating back to 1985, including annual land cover change, and impervious surface types and growth across the County. These data are satellite derived and provided by the USGS at a 30-meter resolution. We've included a how to video in case you run into any challenges navigating the site. Check it out here:

https://gis.co.monroe.in.us/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experience/?id=c881a8f5d95f422ead60eb6a122bc370&page=Viewer

Delighted to share that we won the Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2026 Indiana Geographic Information Council, Inc.'s Annual Meeting for our collaborative project with Monroe County Public Library - Hoosier Character!
Hoosier Character is an immersive and interactive website aimed at inspiring Hoosiers to find out more about the history of the places we live, work, and play. Its a living project, with new data being added regularly.

Check it out here:

https://gis.co.monroe.in.us/portal/apps/dashboards/653aec10cb6e4fe58b0722a1e286d9dc

Hey there informed voters of Monroe County!

Tonight we will be posting live election updates for the 2026 Primary via our Election Reporting Dashboard. This will show results as we receive them from the Clerk's Office at both the Precinct and County-Wide scale. The first update should occur after 6PM and then periodically through the night as votes are tabulated. These dashboards are configured for both Desktop and Mobile viewing, with the latter having fewer bells and whistles. You can find these here:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/842c69c9a0cd4628b5ce02126a178e39

In collaboration with our Voter Registration Office, we've created an early voting data dashboard for the 2026 Primary. This dashboard is updated nightly, and provides historical data to compare past midterm early voting primary results with our current election cycle.

Here's a link to the dashboard:

https://gis.co.monroe.in.us/portal/apps/dashboards/76049a9ff4934c21b5059bdc88a0b671

We've configured it to work on both desktop (more bells and whistles) as well as mobile devices.

We'll also be running a separate dashboard during the primary on May 5th. Let us know if you have any questions or comments!