Seattle Football Fields Inventory by Parks Department

Seattle Parks and Recreation maintains this dataset of football fields, filtered from a broader athletics fields feature class. It is updated weekly, though the specific number of field records is not provided. The data includes geographic features and is available in multiple formats including CSV, GeoJSON, and KML.

Use Cases

• Map field locations using geographic coordinates for park planning and accessibility analysis.
• Analyze field distribution relative to other Parks and Recreation assets tagged in the data.
• Integrate with other Seattle GIS Open Data layers using common spatial identifiers for urban studies.

Strengths

• Data is refreshed on a weekly cycle, ensuring regular updates.
• Published by the authoritative City of Seattle organization.
• Available in 9 different file formats including spatial formats like KML and GeoPackage.

Limitations

• The total number of rows (football fields) and the specific column schema are unknown.
• The dataset is geographically limited to the City of Seattle, not representative of other regions.
• Definition query (WHERE FOOTBALL > 0) suggests it is a filtered subset, potentially omitting related field data.

Provenance

Source

City of Seattle, Seattle Parks and Recreation.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

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

Geography

City of Seattle.