DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Rhode Island, enter the town and the plat and lot number, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Rhode Island. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Rhode Island
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Every lot has a neighbor on three sides.
In Rhode Island almost nothing sells on acreage alone. It sells on where the lot sits: frontage, what abuts, the wet corner, the buildable part. A single outlined aerial answers in one frame what a buyer would otherwise ask three questions to get to. Buildable: ground outside mapped slope, flood and wetland areas. A screen, not a zoning, septic or permit approval.
A lot in Washington County renders in the same ten minutes as one in Providence County, and stone walls, wetland and cleared area separate at a glance.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Hardwood timber wrapped around open fields and a pond, 162 ft of relief, and 4,730 ft of town road frontage down the east and south lines.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Rhode Island delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Rhode Island land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Rhode Island county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a Rhode Island parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Rhode Island county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Small wooded lots, wetlands and swamp, coastal and pond-side parcels, and small farms.
- Typical uses
- Building lots, waterfront and recreation, small farms, and woodland.
- Reads well from above
- Wetland edges, tree cover, water frontage, and how a small lot sits against its neighbors and its road.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the plat and lot on the town record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a Rhode Island tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Rhode Island ground.
Which Rhode Island counties can you do?
Any Rhode Island county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Which Rhode Island lots are worth ordering a pack for?
Small wooded lots, wetlands and swamp, coastal and pond-side parcels, and small farms. Typical uses there: building lots, waterfront and recreation, small farms, and woodland.
Is a small lot worth an aerial at all?
On small lots it does the most work. One outlined top down shows shape, frontage and what abuts, which is what a buyer spends a site visit figuring out. It is also the only way to show a back lot with no clearing.
Will wetland show up on the imagery?
Usually. Wetland vegetation, sitting water and the dark wet ground read from above, and the contour map shows the low end. It is a visual read from imagery, not a delineation.
What is a plat and lot in Rhode Island, and how do I enter one?
In Rhode Island, the number to look for is the plat and lot on the town record. Enter the town and the plat and lot as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What does a small Rhode Island lot show from above?
Wetland edges, tree cover, water frontage, and how a small lot sits against its neighbors and its road. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Rhode Island parcel today.
Send the town and the plat and lot number, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.