OFFICIAL SOURCE REGISTRY
NEW ENGLAND LOCAL SOURCES
CATALOG PROVENANCE
State, territorial and Tribal reporting is a monitoring baseline and is not guaranteed to include every local public access point.
U.S. federal public data; source attribution retained on every record.
Open official source ↗FDEP states that locations are relative references, may not be site-specific surveys, and should be confirmed with the appropriate managing agency.
The public item requires acknowledgement of the originator; Public Beach Finder attributes FDEP and the Florida Coastal Management Program on every derived record and in the product.
Open official source ↗The Commission makes no warranty of accuracy or completeness, may revise the data, and instructs visitors to follow posted safety guidance, rules, and onsite authorities.
The official YourCoast item declares the data a publicly available open data set; California's statewide conditions generally treat state-created information as public domain and permit distribution or copying as allowed by law.
Open official source ↗GLO makes no warranty of accuracy or completeness, says the data is not suitable for navigation or boundary determination, and flags some records as needing an update. Public Beach Finder preserves those warnings and imports only public-view records classified as Beach.
The Texas Open Data Portal presents GLO authoritative dataset downloads, and the GLO site policy states that it does not charge to access, use, or reproduce website information unless the Legislature specifically authorizes a fee.
Open official source ↗Oregon says geospatial products are informational and may not be suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. Public Beach Finder imports only published, active, non-private physical ocean access and excludes visual-only, non-ocean, unavailable, and exact duplicate source rows.
Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Operations states that its data is in the public domain and that Oregon GEOHub data is free to download and use. GEOHub terms expressly include creating derivative works in their definition of use and address use for commercial purposes subject to applicable law. The official OCMP page links the state shoreline-access inventory, and the public state service permits query and extraction.
Open official source ↗The field survey dates to 2008 and the state calls it an approximate general reference rather than a list of every possible entry point. Public Beach Finder imports only records whose shore type includes sand and makes the source age and completeness warning visible.
The Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS download page and the official ArcGIS item state that the contents are public domain, subject to the published terms and limitations.
Open official source ↗Publication status: disabled-rights-review
The state says the guide is informational, still in development, and not legally binding. Local rules and the site owner or manager control. Written commercial reuse permission is required before enabling this source.
The guide supplies factual and coded fields, but its page displays an all-rights-reserved notice and the ArcGIS item does not publish an explicit commercial reuse license.
Open official source ↗Massachusetts says the data is approximate, supplied as-is for planning, may not show every coastal access site, and is not a legal survey or definitive ownership record.
The ArcGIS item expressly grants permission to copy and use the materials. Public Beach Finder credits Massachusetts CZM and MassGIS and uses factual fields without copying photos or editorial descriptions.
Open official source ↗CT DEEP warns that sites have different owners and maintainers and that site conditions may change without the agency's awareness. The layer's stated data date is June 2022.
The source item states there are no access or use limitations, and Connecticut defines open data as freely reusable and redistributable without use restrictions. Public Beach Finder retains CT DEEP attribution.
Open official source ↗The official layer does not publish hours, parking, lifeguard, accessibility, or dog rules. Navy Beach Club is excluded because it is restricted rather than open to the general public.
Rhode Island's copyright policy states that compiled public information may be distributed or copied with appropriate credits. Public Beach Finder credits RI DEM and uses factual fields only.
Open official source ↗The report states that all 16 coastal and estuarine public beaches are inspected. It does not replace current NHDES advisories, posted closures, or managing-agency rules.
Public Beach Finder uses the state report only to confirm the factual count and scope and links it as provenance for the existing EPA records.
Open official source ↗Nearest linked station may not reproduce conditions at the exact beach access point.
U.S. federal public data with NOAA attribution retained in the product.
Open official source ↗Forecasts and alerts can change rapidly and are not beach-operation notices.
U.S. federal public data with NWS attribution retained in the product.
Open official source ↗LIVE CONDITIONS
State coastal beach monitoring program.
Official page blocks some automated clients; verify manually.
Safe-to-Swim portal; county and local programs may publish faster notices.
State public-beach program page.
Recreational water monitoring and advisories.
Healthy Beaches county results and program information.
Georgia Healthy Beaches program.
Clean Water Branch advisories and notifications.
Weekly beach-season results and advisory table; the official site blocks some automated clients.
Maine Healthy Beaches portal listed by EPA.
Maryland Healthy Beaches program.
Current beach water-quality dashboard and guidance; the official site blocks some automated clients.
MDEQ identifies this as the fastest source for current beach conditions.
Healthy Swimming mapper listed by EPA; automated requests may be blocked.
Official advisory hub links to current coastal beach status and results.
Current coastal beach status map; operating hours are separate.
Recreational water-quality monitoring and swimming advisories.
Oregon Beach Monitoring Program advisories.
Current beach closure and monitoring information.
Current short- and long-term swimming advisories.
Texas Beach Watch monitoring map.
Swim Healthy Virginia advisories and monitoring.
Marine BEACH program and current status map.