View In:
ArcGIS Online Map Viewer
Name: Wetlands_classified SchC
Display Field: MAX_COASTAL_IND
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: Wetlands are lands that are seasonally or permanently flooded by shallow water, as well as lands where the water table is close to or at the surface. In either case, the presence of abundant water has caused the formation of hydric (moist) soils and has favoured the dominance of either hydrophytic (water-loving) or water tolerant plants.
The term wetland is a general one and includes specific land types commonly called marshes, bogs, swamps and fens. Other terms sometimes used to describe wetlands include mires, sloughs and peatlands.
Periodically soaked or wetlands being used for agricultural purposes that no longer exhibit wetland characteristics are not considered to be wetlands for the purposes of this definition.
Wetland polygons are mapped independently from other hydrographic data classes and may overlap water bodies or other hydrographic data.
Not all wetlands have been identified and mapped. Active maintenance is ongoing province-wide.
Evaluators using the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES) will find additional guidance on the Ontario Wetlands evaluation page.
For user friendly viewing of the wetland data, navigate to Ontario’s Make a Natural Heritage Map web application. This map application displays wetlands that have been evaluated using the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System as provincially significant or non-provincially significant. The application also displays wetlands that have not been evaluated but have been mapped using other procedures.
The wetland data layer is updated whenever existing wetlands mapping is revised and when new wetland features are added throughout the province.
Annual copies or “snapshot” of the Wetland data class have been retained on a irregular basis since 2002. Copies of these snapshots can be made available upon request. Please note that the Wetland data class is not a comprehensive annual inventory of all wetlands in Ontario.
For more comprehensive remotely sensed wetland land cover data please refer to provincial or federal land cover mapping inventories including products such as the Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System (SOLRIS), Ontario Land Cover Compilation (OLCC) and other land cover mapping datasets.
*Due to limitations of the shapefile format, Wetland data can only be downloaded in the file geodatabase format (.gbd). On Ontario GeoHub, access the file geodatabase by clicking Download > Additional Resources > Complete File Geodatabase.
Additional Documentation
Map identifying the Eco Regions in the Province of Ontario (PDF)
Wetland - Data Description (PDF)
Wetland - User Guide (Word)
Wetland - Documentation (Word)
Status On going: data is being continually updated Maintenance and Update Frequency As needed: data is updated as deemed necessary Contact Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry - Provincial Mapping, pmu@ontario.ca
Service Item Id: d92a3b30fac1488cbece29c9362c3df3
Copyright Text: <a href="https://www.ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario">Open Government Licence – Ontario</a>
Default Visibility: true
MaxRecordCount: 1000
MaxSelectionCount: 0
Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF
Min Scale: 0.0
Max Scale: 0.0
Effective Min Scale: 250000
Supports Advanced Queries: true
Supports Statistics: true
Can Scale Symbols: false
Use Standardized Queries: true
Supports ValidateSQL: true
Supports Calculate: true
Supports Datum Transformation: true
Extent:
XMin: 439960.1638000002
YMin: 4861596.7217
XMax: 502519.31570000015
YMax: 5018387.3025
Spatial Reference: 26917
(26917)
LatestVCSWkid(0)
Drawing Info:
Renderer:
Unique Value Renderer:
Field 1: WETLAND_CLASS
Field 2: N/A
Field 3: N/A
Field Delimiter: ,
Default Symbol:
Default Label: N/A
UniqueValueInfos:
-
Value: Key Feature - North
Label: Key Feature - Wetlands
Description: N/A
Symbol:
Style: esriSFSSolid
Color: [78, 78, 78, 255]
Outline:
Style: esriSLSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Width: 2
-
Value: Key Feature - South
Label: Key Feature - Wetlands
Description: N/A
Symbol:
Style: esriSFSSolid
Color: [78, 78, 78, 255]
Outline:
Style: esriSLSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Width: 2
-
Value: Supporting Feature - North
Label: Supporting Feature - Wetlands
Description: N/A
Symbol:
Style: esriSFSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Outline:
Style: esriSLSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Width: 1
-
Value: Supporting Feature - South
Label: Supporting Feature - Wetlands
Description: N/A
Symbol:
Style: esriSFSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Outline:
Style: esriSLSSolid
Color: [0, 0, 0, 255]
Width: 1
Transparency: 0
Labeling Info:
Feature Draw Order:
Advanced Query Capabilities:
Supports Statistics: true
Supports OrderBy: true
Supports Distinct: true
Supports Pagination: true
Supports TrueCurve: true
Supports Returning Query Extent: true
Supports Query With Distance: true
Supports Sql Expression: true
Supports Query With ResultType: true
Supports Returning Geometry Centroid: true
Supports Binning LOD: false
Supports Query With LOD Spatial Reference: false
Supports Percentile Statistics: true
Supports Having Clause: true
Supports Count Distinct: true
Supports Time Relation: false
Supports Sql Format: false
Supports Query Analytic: true
Supports Query With Current User: true
HasZ: false
HasM: false
Has Attachments: false
HTML Popup Type: esriServerHTMLPopupTypeAsHTMLText
Type ID Field: WETLAND_CLASS
Fields:
-
OBJECTID
(
type: esriFieldTypeOID, alias: OBJECTID, editable: false, nullable: false, defaultValue: null, modelName: OBJECTID
)
-
COMPLEX
(
type: esriFieldTypeSmallInteger, alias: COMPLEX, editable: true, nullable: true, defaultValue: null, modelName: COMPLEX
)
-
MAX_COASTAL_IND
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: MAX_COASTAL_IND, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 3, defaultValue: , modelName: COASTAL_IND
)
-
MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 3, defaultValue: , modelName: EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND
)
-
MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 20, defaultValue: , modelName: WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE
)
-
HECTARE
(
type: esriFieldTypeDouble, alias: HECTARE, editable: true, nullable: true, defaultValue: null, modelName: HECTARE
)
-
BC_LOC
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: BC_LOC, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 255, defaultValue: null, modelName: BC_LOC
)
-
IN_CORE
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: IN_CORE, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 255, defaultValue: null, modelName: IN_CORE
)
-
IN_LINK
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: IN_LINK, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 255, defaultValue: null, modelName: IN_LINK
)
-
WETLAND_CLASS
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: WETLAND_CLASS, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 255, defaultValue: null, modelName: WETLAND_CLASS
)
-
Municipality
(
type: esriFieldTypeString, alias: Municipality, editable: true, nullable: true, length: 3, defaultValue: null, modelName: Municipality
, Coded Values:
[AE: Arran-Elderslie Municipality]
, [BR: Brockton Municipality]
, [HK: Huron-Kinloss Township]
, ...16 more...
)
-
Shape__Area
(
type: esriFieldTypeDouble, alias: Shape.STArea(), editable: false, nullable: true, defaultValue: null, modelName: Shape.STArea(), required: true
)
-
Shape__Length
(
type: esriFieldTypeDouble, alias: Shape.STLength(), editable: false, nullable: true, defaultValue: null, modelName: Shape.STLength(), required: true
)
Types:
ID: Key Feature - North
Name: Key Feature - Wetlands
Domains:
Templates:
-
Name: Key Feature - North
Description:
Prototype:
Municipality: null
WETLAND_CLASS: Key Feature - North
COMPLEX: null
MAX_COASTAL_IND:
MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND:
MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE:
HECTARE: null
BC_LOC: null
IN_CORE: null
IN_LINK: null
Drawing Tool: esriFeatureEditToolPolygon
ID: Key Feature - South
Name: Key Feature - Wetlands
Domains:
Templates:
-
Name: Key Feature - South
Description:
Prototype:
Municipality: null
WETLAND_CLASS: Key Feature - South
COMPLEX: null
MAX_COASTAL_IND:
MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND:
MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE:
HECTARE: null
BC_LOC: null
IN_CORE: null
IN_LINK: null
Drawing Tool: esriFeatureEditToolPolygon
ID: Supporting Feature - North
Name: Supporting Feature - Wetlands
Domains:
Templates:
-
Name: Supporting Feature - North
Description:
Prototype:
Municipality: null
WETLAND_CLASS: Supporting Feature - North
COMPLEX: null
MAX_COASTAL_IND:
MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND:
MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE:
HECTARE: null
BC_LOC: null
IN_CORE: null
IN_LINK: null
Drawing Tool: esriFeatureEditToolPolygon
ID: Supporting Feature - South
Name: Supporting Feature - Wetlands
Domains:
Templates:
-
Name: Supporting Feature - South
Description:
Prototype:
Municipality: null
WETLAND_CLASS: Supporting Feature - South
COMPLEX: null
MAX_COASTAL_IND:
MAX_EVALUATED_WETLAND_IND:
MAX_WETLAND_SIGNIFICANCE:
HECTARE: null
BC_LOC: null
IN_CORE: null
IN_LINK: null
Drawing Tool: esriFeatureEditToolPolygon
Capabilities: Query,Extract
Sync Can Return Changes: false
Is Data Versioned: true
Supports Rollback On Failure: false
Supports ApplyEdits With Global Ids: false
Supports Query With Historic Moment: false
Supports Coordinates Quantization: true
Child Resources:
Supported Operations:
Query
Query Analytic
Append
Validate SQL
Generate Renderer
Return Updates
Iteminfo
Thumbnail
Metadata