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usgs

4 datasets

  • US Census Bureau TIGER data

    Offsite — The US government’s ‘Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing’ system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic information. It is county-level data that documents physical features like roads and rivers, as well as some administrative features such as Congressional districts. Data can be downloaded for each ...

  • BGN (Board on Geographic Names): Domestic Names - State and Topical Gazetteer Download Files

    Offsite — The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the Federal and national standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS in support of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names as the official repository of domestic ...

  • NWIS

    Offsite — National scope of USGS water quality sample and laboratory result data and information obtained from the NWIS/NWISWeb systems (the data available is a subset of NWISWeb) and NAWQA Data Warehouse Additional facts from data.gov Dataset Summary Date Released: 10/01/2008 Date Updated: Ongoing Time Period: 1900-present Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog ...

  • Deadliest earthquakes since 1900

    Offsite — Earthquakes with 1,000 deaths or more for the last 100 years. See an analysis by Stephen Ogrady at http://bit.ly/tecoquake