How can I find mapped railways, power lines and pipelines near a Kingston home?

The Ontario Railway Network maps tracks, crossings, junctions and stations across the province. The Utility Line dataset maps lines that carry power, water, communications and heating fuel: hydro and communication lines, natural gas and water pipelines, and lines of unknown type. The feature type matters, because not every mapped line is a gas pipeline. Both are mapping records, not a locate of buried services, and the Utility Line dataset's records date from 1977 to 2008, so a blank map is not proof that no line exists.

Kingston's Zoning By-law 2022-62 turns these lines into distances for new building. On a lot next to a principal or secondary main line, a building with a sensitive use must be set back 120 metres from the lot line by the tracks, or 30 metres with a landscaped berm, and a chain link fence is required along that line. Next to land holding a pipeline, the setback is 7 metres for a principal building such as a house and 3 metres for an accessory building, pool, deck, patio or porch. These govern what may be built; they say nothing about noise or vibration at an existing home.

• Ontario Railway Network (ORWN): tracks, crossings, junctions and stations
• Utility Line dataset: power, communication, gas and water lines
• Zoning By-law 2022-62, Part 1: sections 4.22 and 4.24, railway and pipeline separation distances (PDF)

Pipelines, power lines and rail runs for any Ontario address. The free check measures the distance to the nearest mapped track and utility line on the spot; the full report adds Transport Canada's grade crossings. Each line names the layer and the date it was read.

Free check: pick “Pipelines, power lines, rail” See the sample report