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Geographical Information System (GIS): USA datasets

This guide contains GIS office hours, tutorials, sources and platforms

Online Newly Updated Datasets

How to find mappable census data? Please go to Explore Census Data to find tables which can be added to your maps.

Learn how to extract data in form of CSV (table) at: DATA GEMS: How to Navigate data.census.gov

Modern strategies for finding geospatial data

States Datasets

Alaska GIS Clearinghouse
Arizona Geodata Portal
CA-Altas GIS Clearinghouse
Colorado Geographic Information Portal
Connecticut GIS Data
Georgia GIS Data Clearinghouse
GeoStor, Arkansas Official GIS Platform
Inside Idaho
Kansas Data and Support Center
Maine GIS Data
MassGIS
Missouri Spatial Data Information Service
Montana GIS Clearinghouse
New Hampshire GIS Clearing House
New Mexico Resource GIS (NM-RGIS)
Rhode Island - RIGIS
Texas Natural Resources Information System
Utah GIS Portal
Vermont
Virginia digitized data
Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse
official WA Geospatial data portal
Wyoming GIS Center
Official Wyoming state GIS center

Geoportal

Big Academic Alliance Geoportal
A centralized point of discovery and access for digital geospatial resources from multiple clearinghouses and library catalogs
Tufts University Geoportal
Harvard World Map
Harvard WorldMap began in 2008 with the aim of lowering barriers for scholars to create, analyze, and share geospatial information.

National Datasets

Gulf of Mexico GIS Data
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Data.gov
eGRID
Data source on air emissions, resource mix, net generation and more in USA with geographical information.
Health Data
Landsat
NACJD
National Atlas
National Historical Geographic Information System
National Hydrology Data
National Solar Radiation Data Base
National Transit Map (Data, Maps and Apps)
more...less...
Open, machine spatial and tabular data
NREL
Dynamic maps, GIS data, and analysis tools
USA census data
USA Spending Government
US Department of Transportation
Climate Prediction Center National Weather Service
Earth Explorer

City/Region datasets

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This list is by no means all-inclusive.

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Contact info

Please contact Bahare Sanaie-Movahed, GIS Specialist at Snell Library, for further assistance.

Last Updated: Mar 14, 2023 10:50 AM
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