History

2000 – The Public XY Mapping Project is incorporated in Virginia as the owner of the U.S. National Grid standard

2001 – The U.S. National Grid is published as a federal coordinate standard by the Federal Geographic Data Committee

2005 – Florida adopts USNG as its location communication standard for its Emergency Services Sector personnel

2007 – Delta State University receives a grant from the USGS to perform USNG awareness and outreach

2008 – Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council,  Emergency Preparedness Committee, SharedGeo, and
National Association for Public Safety GIS begin efforts to promote use of USNG

2009 – Minnesota adopts USNG as an official geospatial standard for the state

2010 – SharedGeo stands up the USNG Center

2011 – First Emergency Location Markers (ELM) based on USNG are installed Lake County, MN

2013 – Fire East in Daytona Beach, Florida hosts first annual USNG Implementation Work Group (IWG) meeting

2015 – USNG IWG annual meeting  goes online

2015 - FEMA publishes Use of the United States National Grid (USNG), FEMA Directive 92-5

2018 – USNG IWG becomes a quarterly meeting

2020 – USNG IWG members form leadership team to consider creation of the USNG Institute (USNGI)

2021 – Work begins on formalizing the USNGI as a way to more effectively promote adoption of USNG

2022 – March 1-7, documents are signed creating USNGI as a Fiscal Sponsorship project of SharedGeo