Voluntary Agricultural Districts in Wake County, North Carolina

A dataset from Wake County, North Carolina, last updated in March 2026, describing parcels enrolled in the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) program. The program aims to promote agricultural values and protect farms from non-farm development. All parcels are private agricultural properties and are not open to public access.

Use Cases

• Analyze farmland preservation patterns based on enrolled parcel locations.
• Model land-use conflicts between agricultural and residential areas based on program descriptions of expected farming conditions.
• Assess eligibility for agricultural programs based on the described minimum acreage requirements for forestry, agriculture, and horticulture.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial and tabular formats (CSV, GEOJSON, KML, GPKG).
• Specific program eligibility criteria are provided (e.g., 20 acres of forestry, 10 acres of agriculture, 5 acres of horticulture).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single county program.

Provenance

Source

Wake County

Collection Method

Likely collected for local government administration of the Voluntary Agricultural District program.

Time Range

Ordinance referenced is from June 2022; dataset last updated March 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 02:58:39.931098; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wake County, North Carolina, United States.