The offices of Heritage Consultants, LLC include approximately 2,000 square feet of both climate controlled and non-climate controlled workspace. This workspace is comprised of office, laboratory, and storage facilities. Our firm also maintains an array of basic field, laboratory, and production support equipment that allows the completion of the highest quality cultural resources management services.

In addition, as part of our office facilities and support for our clients, Heritage Consultants, LLC owns and operates a state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS), ESRI’s ArcGIS 9 GIS package. With this GIS package we have the ability to perform complex spatial analyses and site/area specific queries concerning the archeology of a given project area, as well as to provide land use analysis, cultural and natural resource monitoring, archeological and historical predictive modeling, and disturbance studies of proposed project areas. The use of ArcGIS 9 has become integral to each phase our projects, from initial planning and research design to analysis and final published graphics. The multi-functionality of our GIS also includes overlaying of scanned images (e.g., aerial images, historic photographs, etc.) and interactive editing of raster and vector files.

In addition to generating our own maps, our GIS specialist, Mr. Keegan, also incorporates previously digitized USGS topographic quadrangles, aerial imagery, historical maps, state maps, and local maps into our reports. The primary advantage of using digital maps within a GIS format lies in the ability of our GIS Specialist to create multiple maps or map types from a single data set, and to produce those maps in both two- and three-dimensional forms. For example, complex maps depicting the geomorphology of a region or archeological site distributions along a long linear corridor or within a specified area can be compiled with little effort and with minimal costs to our clients. From one base map, any number of additional maps can be generated to allow our preservation planners to depict the distribution of a particular soil type, riverine changes in the vicinity of the project area, or the relationship of an archeological site or distribution of sites to a given landform(s). Because our GIS produces not only maps but databases of geo-referenced information, our staff members can complete complex queries that range from site specific to regional settlement and site distribution issues. In short, the applications of our GIS are unlimited, and whether it is used as a planning tool, for data analysis, or to produce high quality images, it is an important part of every project undertaken by Heritage Consultants, LLC.
 
As a result, Heritage Consultants, LLC is the sole owner of and it maintains spatially geo-referenced information related to: the locations of previously Completed Cultural Resources Investigations (approximately 3,000 investigations); National Register of Historic Places Properties (approximately 1,500 properties and 60,000 individual structures); State Register of Historic Places & Local Historic Districts (several hundred sites); Archeological Sites (over 7,000 known sites); Locations of Native American Burials (260 burial locations); and Historic Cemeteries of Connecticut (hundreds of locations). These data, which are not available in any other location or through any other firm, are crucial to developing and understanding the “existing conditions” as they apply to cultural resources located along and immediately adjacent to proposed project development. In addition to these crucial data layers, Heritage Consultants, LLC also maintains an inventory of geo-referenced maps and aerial photographs that may be important to the proposed undertaking. These maps and aerial images include, but are not limited to: various geo-referenced Historic Maps; Beers’ County Atlases; Historic 7.5' Series USGS Topographic Quadrangles (1890s and 1938-1942); and Town Proprietors' Plans, & Other Miscellaneous Maps (approximately 1,800 maps).