Spatial analysis
for hard country.
Utility, environmental, and economic GIS work out of southwest Kansas — built on the same one-mile grid this whole region runs on.
Three domains, one frame.
Infrastructure that has to work
Operational mapping, asset inventory, outage communication, and spatial tools for rural electric cooperatives. GIS applied where the lights need to stay on.
Land, water, and what's changing
Ogallala Aquifer resource planning, land-use suitability analysis, remote sensing and change detection, and spatial evidence for long-range decisions in arid systems.
Analysis that survives a boardroom
Present-worth cost-benefit frameworks, MCDA suitability modeling, and decision-ready spatial outputs that connect maps to money and policy to place.
Meet Datum.
A public, read-only reference map of Dodge City's water system and Ford County's framework layers — water and sewer lines, wells, hydrants, treated-effluent irrigation, force mains, and municipal and GMD-3 boundaries, with PLSS sections available in the layer picker. Search by place name, share any view by link, and click any feature to identify it. Parcel data is on the way.
Datum is also the assistant on this site: a locally hosted model that answers in plain language and drives the map for you. Everything public runs through a sanitized, capped API.
Coursework → capstone pipeline.
Concepts of GIS in Environmental Science
Ford County solar siting suitability — irradiance, slope, infrastructure proximity, and land-use constraints combined into a weighted MCDA overlay.
Open live dashboard →Environmental Data Analysis
Course confirmed for Fall 2026. Final project and deliverables land here once the term begins.
Environmental Risk Assessment
Term project planned as capstone groundwork using the EPA four-step health risk framework.
Capstone Research Database
A fully symbolized, hosted geodatabase of capstone layers — aquifer depletion, infrastructure overlay, and solar suitability — queryable from this site once data collection begins.
View prospectus →Infrastructure GIS, field sense, and hard-country problems.
Corban is an infrastructure-focused GIS professional working where geography, utilities, water, land, and rural operations overlap. His work centers on practical GIS systems: electric utility mapping, water/wastewater/stormwater infrastructure, CAD-to-GIS migration, asset management, compliance support, field collection workflows, and decision-ready spatial analysis.
He holds the GISP credential, is a Certified Floodplain Manager, and is a Class 4 KDHE-licensed water operator with an FAA Part 107 certification. He's currently pursuing graduate research through Montana State University's Land Resources and Environmental Science program, focused on potable reuse feasibility for aquifer-stressed communities in southwest Kansas.
The throughline is the same: useful infrastructure for rural places that solve hard problems with fewer tools and less budget than anyone would like. What's changed is the toolkit — and how much of it now runs on data nobody used to bother collecting.
Maintains enterprise electric GIS infrastructure, develops demand growth modeling tools, designed a vegetation risk prioritization tool from outage history and canopy datasets, integrates legacy CAD into GIS, modernizes construction specification manuals, and built a Power BI dashboard tracking top electric consumers.
Established the city's first comprehensive utility GIS platform, migrated CAD blueprints into structured geodatabases, developed water/wastewater/stormwater layers, implemented lead and copper compliance inventory for 7,000+ service lines, and trained staff on ArcGIS Field Maps.
Built the founding nonprofit team; manages budget, fundraising, grant proposals, systems administration, dashboards, governance operations, and public outreach.
Need Corban for a GIS, infrastructure, or research conversation?
Talk to Datum in the corner to leave a message, or grab the résumé for direct contact details.