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GIS Data and Sources

 

Resources for GIS data

United States Census
State Data Repositories
US Bureau of Land Management
Environmental Protection Agency

Federal Emergency Management Agency
US Fish & Wildlife Service
US Geological Survey
US Dept. of Health and Human Services
US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
National Aeronautical and Space Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Parks Service

US Dept. of Transportation

 

United States Census

American Fact Finder

http://factfinder.census.gov

2000 Census home page

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

Summary File 1 technical documentation

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

Summary File 2 technical documentation

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf2.pdf

Summary File 3 technical documentation

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf

Summary File 4 technical documentation

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf4.pdf

American Factfinder tables list (searchable)

http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/browse/sf1_3tables3.pdf

geographic areas reference manual

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/garm.html

geographic terms and concepts

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/glossry2.pdf

Census Bureau geography homepage

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/index.html

cartographic boundary files, ArcView formats

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob

block group maps by state and county, pdf format

http://ftp2.census.gov/plmap/pl_blk

tract maps by state and tract, pdf format

http://ftp2.census.gov/plmap/pl_trt

voting district maps by state and district, pdf format

http://ftp2.census.gov/plmap/pl_vtd

list of maps (with Census 1990), pdf format

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/CP_MapProducts.htm

TIGER Line File information and downloads

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger

TIGER Line File technical documentation

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2k/tiger2k.pdf

Censuswatch home page

http://www.esri.com/censuswatch/index.html

Census 2000 downloads from ESRI

http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html

quick reference for ESRI abbreviated SF1 files

http://www.esri.com/censuswatch/sf1_ref.html

quick reference for ESRI abbreviated PL 94-171 files

http://www.esri.com/censuswatch/pl94-171_ref.html

1990 Census data home page

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen1990.html

processed 1990 Census data

http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/cenguide.html

processed 1990 Census data

http://www2a.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/census90/house11/housdesc.htm

1970-1990 Census data for Census 2000 geography

http://www.freedemographics.com

historical Census data with geography

http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/index.html

historical Census data

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census

public use training modules (Powerpoint)

http://www.census.gov/mso/www/rsf/index.html

public use presentation library (Powerpoint)

http://www.census.gov/mso/www/pres_lib/index2.html

American Factfinder tutorial

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/census2/cen2000.htm

glossary of Census terms

http://eire.census.gov/mod-perl/ssd/Glossary

glossary of Census geography terms

http://www.census.gov/geo/lv4help/cengeoglos.html

Census subjects index

http://www.census.gov/acsd/www/subjects.html

Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/statab/www

 

State Data Repositories

National States Geographic Information Council

http://www.nsgic.org/related_sites/index.cfm

NSDI

http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/StateLinks/index.html

BTS

http://www.bts.gov/gis/stategis/index.html

CHAART

http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/health/links/links.html

University of Arkansas CAST

http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html

MIT GIS Laboratory

http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/data/statecenter.html

University of Oregon Libraries

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/map_section/map_Statedatasets.html

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

 

U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management Geospatial Information Center

BLM Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

National Science and Technology Center GIS links

National Applied Resources Science Center GIS home page

complete GIS data catalog

National Integrated Land System

Land Survey Information System

Land Survey Information System

Geographic Coordinate Data Base

Alaska BLM GIS home page

Alaska BLM Spatial Data Management System

California BLM GIS download page

Colorado BLM GIS home page

Montana/Dakotas BLM GIS home page

Nevada BLM GIS home page

New Mexico BLM geosciences home page

Oregon/Washington BLM GIS home page

Utah BLM mapping sciences home page

Wyoming BLM GIS home page

GIS data FTP site

 

United States Fish & Wildlife Service

FWS GIS home page

http://www.fws.gov/data/gishome.html

FWS spatial data source list

http://www.fws.gov/data/datafws.html

National Wetlands Inventory

http://www.nwi.fws.gov

GIS data sets by state

http://www.fws.gov/data/statdata

Pacific Region GIS home page

http://www.r1.fws.gov/gis/default.html

Northeast Region GIS home page

http://northeast.fws.gov/gis

Mountain-Prairie Region GIS home page

http://northeast.fws.gov/gis

 

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA NSDI node

http://www.epa.gov/nsdi

theme-based browse

http://www.epa.gov/nsdi/pages/theme_browse.html

Envirofacts Data Warehouse

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html

National Atlas maps from EPA

http://www.epa.gov/eq/atlas/nationalatlas/nationalmaps.html

Air Markets GIS data download site

http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/cmap/data/index.html

Office of Water Nutrient Ecoregion database

http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/standards/ecomap.html

Hazardous Waste Combustion database

http://www.epa.gov/combustion/riskdoc3.htm

Region 2 GIS data page

http://www.epa.gov/region02/gis/data.htm

Region 3 GIS data page

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/iacp/gisdata.htm

Region 4 GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/region4/gis/index.html

Region 5 GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/reg5ogis

Region 5 GIS data page

http://www.epa.gov/reg5ogis/download.htm

Region 6 GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/Arkansas/6en/gis/r6gis.htm

Region 6- CAE GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6en/gis/index.htm

Region 7 GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/Region7/government_tribal/gis_info/index.htm

Region 8 GIS data page

http://www.epa.gov/Region8/gis/gisdata.html

Region 10 GIS page

http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/gisapps.html

Oregon Ecological Monitoring Project

http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/oregon/download.html

Northwest Oregon Ecological Monitoring Project

http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/northwest_oregon/download.html

Southern Rockies Ecological Monitoring Project

http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/southern_rockies/download.html

Northern California Ecological Monitoring Project

http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/northern_california/download.html

Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment Program

http://www.epa.gov/emap/maia/html/data.html

about GIS software in use at the EPA

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/gis.htm

MARPLOT mapping software download page

http://www.epa.gov/ceppo/cameo/marplot.htm

mapping data by state for MARPLOT

http://www.epa.gov/ceppo/cameo/marmaps/

about Landview mapping software and data

http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/lvinfo.htm

about BASINS mapping software and data

http://www.epa.gov/OST/BASINS

OERR GIS home page

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/oerrgis/index

 

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMA Mapping and Analysis Center

http://www.gismaps.fema.gov/index.shtm

FEMA Map Service Center

http://www.msc.fema.gov/toc.shtml

Q3 database overview

http://www.msc.fema.gov/q3users.shtml

obtaining Q3 flood maps

http://www.msc.fema.gov/q3flooda.shtml

sample Q3 flood maps

http://www.msc.fema.gov/demodata.shtml

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps home page

http://www.fema.gov/fhm/dfm_dfhm.shtm

DFIRM database overview

http://www.fema.gov/fhm/dl_dfdd.shtm

obtaining DFIRM flood maps

http://www.msc.fema.gov/dfirm.shtml

DFIRM on-line viewer

http://gis.msc.fema.gov/Website/DFIRM_Viewer/Viewer.htm

remote sensing images of recent disasters

http://www.gismaps.fema.gov/rs.shtm

HazardMaps.gov GIS download page

http://www.hazardmaps.gov/dataSearch.php

 

National Aeronautic & Space Administration

Global Change Master Directory NSDI node

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

Earth Observing System Data Gateway at NASA

http://redhook.gsfc.nasa.gov/~imswww/pub/imswelcome

Earth Observing System Data Gateway at USGS

http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome

Earth Observing System Data Gateway at USGS

http://edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome/plain.html

Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov

Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/dataproducts.html

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov

USGS EROS Data Center satellite products

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/products/satellite.html

archive of satellite imagery held by USGS

http://edc.usgs.gov/archive/nslrsda

Satellite Situation Center

http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov

Earth Observatory

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory

National Snow and Ice Data Center

http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu

EROS Data Center

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.html

Global Hydrology Resource Center

http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov

Jet Propulsion Laboratory imaging radar

http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov

Alaska SAR Facility

http://www.asf.alaska.edu/getdata.html

Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium

http://www.mrlc.gov/download_data.asp

Global Change Master Directory data portals

http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data/portal_index.html

links to remote sensing resources

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/RemoteSensing.html

 

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov

NESDIS satellite product list and description

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/sat-products.html

NESDIS Satellite Services Division

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov

Satellite Services Division product list

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/index.html

Satellite Services Division data product search

http://www.saa.noaa.gov/cocoon/nsaa/products/welcome

National Virtual Data System (search all data centers)

http://www.nvds.noaa.gov

National Oceanographic Data Center

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/getdata.html

National Climatic Data Center

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

National Geophysical Data Center

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdcinfo/onlineaccess.html

National Coastal Data Center

http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov

National Geodetic Survey home page

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov

NGS products

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/products_services.shtml

NGS software ftp site

ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/pcsoft

NGS on-line mapping publications

http://geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/pub_index.html

Coastal Services Center Coastal Information Directory

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/CID

Coastal Services Center data products

http://www3.csc.noaa.gov/CSCweb/tempProdCat.asp

Coastal Services Center spatial data

http://www3.csc.noaa.gov/CSCweb/genericPage.asp?bin=10

CSC Marine Boundary Working Group

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/mbwg/htm/cadastre.htm

Digital Shoreline of the United States

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/shorelines

digital coastal maps

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/cm_vs.htm

digital navigational charts

http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm

GSHHS - shoreline database

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html

coastline extractor

http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast

Coastwatch

http://coastwatch.noaa.gov

Operational Sigfinicant Event Imagery

http://www.osei.noaa.gov

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

National Ice Center

http://www.natice.noaa.gov

Biogeography Program

http://biogeo.nos.noaa.gov/products

Special Projects Office

http://sposerver.nos.noaa.gov/spo/products/products.html

Climate Atlas of the United States

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/cdrom/climatls2/info/atlasad.html

US climate map shapefiles

http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/climaps/climaps.pl

NWS weather map database

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/98/html/gisdata.htm

NOAA data server

http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/noaaserver-bin/NOAAServer?stype=home

NOAA portal to environmental GIS data

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/tools/gis/portalged.shtml

 

National Parks Service

NPS GIS home page

NPS data clearinghouse

Alaska region GIS home page

Intermountain region GIS home page

Midwest region GIS home page

Cultural Resources GIS program

Natural Resources GIS program

Inventory and Monitoring GIS ftp site

Vegetation Mapping Program

National Burn Severity Mapping Project

maps of national parks in pdf or jpeg format

historical maps of national parks

satellite imagery of national parks

 

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Research Maps program

R-MAPS volume 2

R-MAPS volume 2 technical documentation

R-MAPS volume 3

 

US Department of Transportation

Bureau of Transportation Statistics GIS data index

http://www.bts.gov/gis/index.html

BTS Geographic Information Services

http://www.bts.gov/programs/gis

BTS National Transportation Atlas data

http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/index.html

BTS North American Transportation Atlas data

http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/noatlas.html

technical documentation for BTS atlases

http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/datadict.html

National Transit GIS

http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/technology/GIS/nt_gis.htm

National Transit GIS- general information

http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/technology/GIS/TGIS/TGIS.HTM

National Transit GIS- bus routes

http://geolab.bridgew.edu/docs/busroutes

National Transportation Research Center GIS Lab

http://www.ntrc.gov/labs/gis.html

Volpe Center GIS home page

http://www.volpe.dot.gov/gis/index.html

National Highway Planning Network

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/index.html

National Pipeline Mapping System

http://www.npms.rspa.dot.gov

 

US Geological Survey

GEODE geodata explorer

http://geode.usgs.gov

EROS Data Center

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov

Digital Backyard (USGS digital products)

http://mapping.usgs.gov/digitalbackyard/index.html

overview of digital mapping products

http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/geodata/geodata.pdf

overview of satellite imagery products

http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/aerial/aerial.html

MapFinder (for locating quad names)

http://www.digitaldataservices.com/mapfinder/mapfinder_online.htm

index to topographic maps of the US

http://edc.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/1_dgr_demfig/index1m.html

map scales for standard size federal maps

http://www.fws.gov/data/gistech/gisscale.html

GIS data download site

http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata

GIS data order site

http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer

GIS data availability

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/products/status.html

USGS node on the NSDI

http://nsdi.usgs.gov

USGS node on the NSDI Clearinghouse

http://mapping.usgs.gov/nsdi

EROS Data Center node on the NSDI Clearinghouse

http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov/fgdc/EDCgateway.html

Clearinghouse Search Wizard

http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov/servlet/FGDCWizard

Water Resources Division GIS data sets

http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/thematic.html

Biology Division GIS data sets

http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/products/parkname.html

catalog of geology data

http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov

catalog of water data

http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getgislist

catalog of digital data series

http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/cdrom/dds.html

National Atlas

http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html

National Map Seamless Data Distribution System

http://seamless.usgs.gov

National Elevation Dataset

http://edcnts12.cr.usgs.gov/ned/default.asp

National Geologic Map Database

http://ngmdb.usgs.gov

National Hydrography Dataset

http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html

National Land Cover Characterization Project

http://landcover.usgs.gov/nationallandcover.html

National Digital Orthophoto Program

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/ndop

US Antarctic Resource Center

http://usarc.usgs.gov

Lake Tahoe Initiative

http://tahoe.usgs.gov

Energy Resources Program

http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/products/pubdata.htm

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/data_library.html

links to technical information pages

http://mapping.usgs.gov/products.html#digital_data

about digital elevation models (DEM)

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/dem.html

about digital line graphics (DLG)

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/map/dlg.html

about digital aerial orthophotographs (DOQ)

http://wgsc.wr.usgs.gov/doq

about digital topographic maps (DRG)

http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drg

about aerial photographs (not rectified)

http://edc.usgs.gov/products/aerial/napp.html

about satellite imagery

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.html

about GIS data standards

http://mapping.usgs.gov/standards

help with DOQ files in ArcView

http://bard.wr.usgs.gov/htmldir/doq_html/doq-help.html

help with SDTS formatted files

http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts

help with SDTS formatted files

http://www.data.geocomm.com/sdts/sdts_tutorial.txt

help with SDTS files in ArcView

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0799/webdata6.html

using DLG files in ArcView

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/798/dlgsources.html

find authorized business partners and their offerings

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/acis-bin/querypartner.cgi

free use of map finder/viewer

http://www.mapmart.com

free use of orthophoto finder/viewer

http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com

free viewer for USGS file formats

http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drc/dlgv32pro

 

US Department of Health & Human Services

National Center for Health Statistics GIS home page

NCHS public health GIS news and information

NCHS public use data files and documentation

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry GIS

ATSDR environmental health map server

National Cancer Institute GIS databases

Primary Care Service Area GIS project

Bureau of Primary Health Care GIS information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page maintained by Diane Creede <decre@conncoll.edu>