Basketball Court Locations in Seattle, Maintained by Parks and Recreation

Seattle Parks and Recreation maintains this hosted feature layer of basketball court polygons. The data is filtered from a larger sports court dataset using the definition query WHERE SPORT_TYPE = 'Basketball'. It is updated on a weekly refresh cycle, with the last update recorded on March 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map public basketball court locations based on the geospatial polygon data.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of recreational facilities based on the maintained parks data.
• Integrate court data into city planning models based on the weekly update cycle for current information.
• Create visualizations of sports infrastructure for public reports based on the feature layer.

Strengths

• Data is updated on a weekly cycle, suggesting regular maintenance.
• Sourced from the authoritative City of Seattle organization.
• Filtered specifically for basketball from a broader sports court dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total spatial extent are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of Seattle, Seattle Parks and Recreation.

Collection Method

Hosted feature layer published from the DPR.Sport_Court_OLN feature class with a definition query.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided description.

Freshness

Weekly refresh cycle; last updated 2026-03-22.

Geography

City of Seattle, Washington, USA.