Registration

Registration is not required to view historic site data and locations, archaeological survey data and locations, and archaeological site tabular data. To access the publicly available data, just use the "Open CRGIS" button above.

Applying for access:

Archaeological and planning accesses are granted to individuals, based on credentials, not to companies or agencies. Full access to archaeological location data is available to cultural resource professionals who meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards as an archaeologist. This access allows a user to see archaeological site locations and the Pre-Contact Probability Model and to submit new resource information for inclusion in the CRGIS.

Planning access is available to planning professionals whose job descriptions involve the regular development or evaluation of proposals for ground disturbing activities which may affect archaeological resources. Access will be granted to individuals, but requires authorization by a responsible employer. This access allows a user to see the Pre-Contact Probability Model, receive archaeological site information in a spatial search, and submit new resource information for inclusion in the CRGIS.

Read the CRGIS Data Quality Statement.

Fill out the registration form choosing the appropriate Access Type (see Registration Form button at bottom of this page). You will be notified by email when your access is established.

Read the Terms and Conditions. Sign the signature page and send it by email or mail along with

Documentation indicating why you qualify for access:

Archaeologists -

a copy of your vita showing that you meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards.

Planners -

a job description indicating that your position includes development or evaluation of plans that include ground disturbing activity and a letter from your agency or company justifying their need for information, indicating their willingness to abide by the Terms and Conditions of use, and requesting access for you. (An agency or company may send one letter requesting access for multiple planners.)

Mail forms to:

CRGIS
Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office
Commonwealth Keystone Building, 2nd Floor
400 North Street, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0093

OR

RA-CRGIS@pa.gov

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LICENSE AGREEMENT

NOTICE: PLEASE READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING OR COPYING. BY SELECTING THE "I ACCEPT" BUTTON BELOW, OR BY DOWNLOADING OR COPYING ANY OF THE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION CONTAINED AT AND WITHIN THIS SITE ("COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY"), YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE.

IF YOU SELECT "I DO NOT ACCEPT," THE DOWNLOAD PROCESS WILL NOT PROCEED. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN, THE ACCESS TO THE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION WILL BE PROHIBITED AND USER WILL NOT HAVE AUTHORIZATION TO DOWNLOAD, COPY, OR ACCESS THIS INFORMATION.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

System Description. Cultural Resource Geographic Information System (CRGIS) is an electronic map-based inventory of Pennsylvania’s historic and archaeological sites and surveys maintained by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The CRGIS contains information on approximately 20,000 archaeological sites and 113,000 historic properties ("System"). Access to archaeological site information is confidential and only available to cultural resource professionals who meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards with a specialty in prehistoric, historic and/or under water archaeology or geomorphology.
License. You ("User") acknowledge that the information contained within this site shall remain the exclusive intellectual property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) (collectively the "COMMONWEALTH"). The Commonwealth grants to User a non-exclusive and non-transferable limited license to access the historic properties and survey information ("COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY") contained within the site. Please be advised that the Commonwealth reserves the right to charge a fee for access to Commonwealth Property contained in this System. However, Users will be notified in advance of any such change.

The right to electronically access and display COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY retrieved from the System is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. Restrictions. The COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY contains copyrighted material, trade secrets, and other proprietary material owned by the Commonwealth. To protect the Commonwealth, User acknowledges and agrees that the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY is proprietary and may not be modified, sold, sublicensed, or distributed in any way, and may not be used to create derivative works based upon the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY. User also agrees that he or she will not decompile, reverse engineer or decode the System, in whole or in part.
  
  User agrees that it will not post or distribute the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY online in a data warehouse or post the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY anywhere without the express written permission of the Commonwealth.
  
  User further agrees to guard the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY with the same diligence with which it guards its own proprietary information.
  
  Except as provided herein, User may not use the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY or retrieve COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY from the System in any fashion that infringes the copyrights or other interests therein. In addition, USER may not use or intermix COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY with any third party’s intellectual property.
  
  User may not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices contained in or retrieved from the System.
  
  User shall cite to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Cultural Resource Geographic Information System (CRGIS) as a source of site information when using data from CRGIS in any publication, report or presentation.
  
  As stated in the Data Quality Statement below, sites viewed in the System may not include precise boundaries because of various sources of mapped data. Therefore, User agrees not to use site boundary information for engineering purposes without field verification.
2. Access to the System. COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY and features may be added or withdrawn from the System or otherwise changed without notice.
3. Indemnification. User shall indemnify, hold harmless, and defend (if requested) the Commonwealth, PennDOT and the PHMC and all of their officers, agents, employees, from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, losses, damages, actions or fees (including attorneys’ fees) of any kind whatever, character, name or description caused by, in connection with, resulting from or arising out of User’s access to and use of the System.
4. No Warranties. The Commonwealth makes no warranties that User’s access to use of the COMMONWEALTH PROPERTY will be error free or successful. The Commonwealth makes and User receives no warranty, express or implied, and there are expressly excluded all warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
5. Choice of Laws. This license shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and with the intellectual property laws of the United States of America.
6. Government Rights. It is understood that certain funding may have been provided or used for the development of the System by the Federal government. Accordingly, the rights to Works or Patentable Items of Contractors or subcontractors hereunder will be further subject to government rights as set forth in 37 C.F.R. Section 401, and other applicable statutes.
7. Miscellaneous. These terms and conditions may be changed from time to time by the COMMONWEALTH and shall become effective immediately upon written or electronic notice to User. User’s access may be terminated immediately upon notice to the COMMONWEALTH that the User does not accept the changes. The COMMONWEALTH may also terminate User’s access to the System for breach of this Agreement or suspend or discontinue providing access to the System to User without notice and pursue any other remedy legally available to enforce compliance with any of User’s obligations hereunder.
  
  Except as otherwise provided herein, all notices and other communications are deemed to have been properly given to User if provided electronically or in writing deposited in the U.S. mail.
  
  The failure of the COMMONWEALTH to enforce any provision hereof shall not constitute or be construed as a waiver of the COMMONWEALTH’S right to enforce it at a later time.
  
  The User may not assign his or her rights or delegate use of his or her User ID and password to the System without the prior written consent of the COMMONWEALTH.

DATA QUALITY STATEMENT

Please click to view the Data Quality Statement.