Nashville Food

This page presents a community mapping project developed to support spatial understanding of the 2020 Nashville tornado and its broader neighborhood context. The map highlights geographic patterns, surrounding infrastructure, and community characteristics that are useful for exploration, learning, and applied analysis. Rather than serving as a one-time event page, this project functions as an ongoing example of how spatial data can be used to examine disaster impacts, recovery contexts, and place-based conditions through interactive mapping.

Project Description

Using Mappler and publicly available data sources, this project documents food resource locations across Nashville and organizes them by outlet type, accessibility features, and participation in assistance programs such as SNAP and WIC. The goal is to support researchers, community partners, and residents in understanding patterns of food access across neighborhoods.

Updated Food Access Mapping Project

The most recent and expanded version of this work — including updated maps, summaries, and documentation — is available through the IMNashville project site:

 https://www.imnashville.com/projects/food-access

This page includes updated datasets, visualizations, and descriptions of current food access mapping efforts in Davidson County.

This page serves as a reference point for ongoing and past food access mapping efforts conducted through the Community Mapping initiative.