LibGuides: Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Data Sources

Data Sources

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families - Kids Count Data Center
The KIDS COUNT Data Center is an interactive database with many indicators about children and their families. Access profiles for all Arkansas counties; order data by rankings, maps, or trend graphs by topic; and download raw data. The Data Center includes more than 100 measures of child well-being, including the community-level data formerly in CLIKS.
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Maps
Lake maps, wildlife viewing area map, georeferenced maps, and an interactive map from the AGFC.
Arkansas GIS Office
The Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services GIS data portal promotes efficient development, maintenance, and distribution of Arkansas’ geographic information resources.
Arkansas Historic Preservation - GIS
The Arkansas Historic Preservation ArcGIS program is the public portal to Arkansas’s historic buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts. First launched in 2019, the database contains properties that have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, determined eligible for listing, or surveyed without a determination.
CAST Landsat Archive
The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas freely shares their archive of Arkansas Landsat data.
Division of Land Surveys - Surveyor's Map
Interactive map that includes General Land Office plat maps, GPS control points, parcel data, and more.
GIS MAP - Arkansas
Includes boundary, county, highway, and rail line shapefiles for the state of Arkansas.
USDA' Natural Resources Conservation Service Arkansas - Data, Maps, and Analysis
Provides One Stop Shopping for Arkansas natural resources or environmental geospatial data.
USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service Arkansas Field Office
Provides access to crop, animal and animal products, demographic, economic, and environmental data.
USGS Arkansas Geologic Map Data
Geology of Arkansas from the USGS.

BTS Open Data
Provides access to geospatial data that is part of the BTS National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) product.
CropScape
Cropland Data Layers (CDL) from the USDA.
Data.gov
Under the OPEN Government Data Act, which is Title II of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, government data is required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while continuing to ensure privacy and security. Data.gov serves as a clearing house for government produced data.
DataUSA
Collection of US Government data in a single comprehensive visualization engine.
Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) Geodata
From the National Center for Educational Statistics Geoportal, includes school district boundaries, school locations, and social and economic data on students.
EPA EnviroMapper
EnviroMapper for Envirofacts is a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data.
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale.
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides easy access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.
National Map
Geospatial data from the USGS as well as other federal, state, and local partners. It includes orthoimagery, elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover.
NOAA Digital Coast
Provides access to coastal data, including economic data, satellite imagery, and more.
NOAA Maps & Data
NOAA provides access to numerous geospatial datasets, including data on droughts, arctic sea ice, precipitation, temperature, and more.
TIGERweb
TIGERweb is a web-based system that allows users to visualize U.S. Census TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing database) data.
TopoView
TopoView highlights one of the USGS's most important and useful products, the topographic map. The application offers access to JPEG's, GeoTFF's, KMZ's, and GeoPDF's of the USGS's Historical Topographic Map Collection.
U.S. Census Bureau Data
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Dataset Gateway
Information regarding facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation. Datasets include climate change, environmental justice, and facility data.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Geospatial Data
Geospatial data is organized by program and theme.
USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
The Gateway allows you to choose your area of interest, browse and select natural resources and environmental data from the catalog, customize the format, and have it downloaded.
USDA Web Soil Survey
Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey.

DIVA-GIS
DIVA-GIS provides access to free GIS data, includes country level data ( administrative boundaries, roads, railroads, altitude, land cover, population density), global climate data, species occurrence data, crop collection data, elevation data, and high resolution satellite imagery.
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
One of the largest collections of Earth imagery: satellite images and data, aerial photography, elevation and land cover, digitized maps, and more.
EarthStat
EarthStat shares cutting-edge data on the global food system to help others make science-based decisions.
ESA Satellite Images
Discover and download the Earth observation data you need from the broad catalogue of missions the European Space Agency operate and support.
FAO Map Catalog
Data for different regions of the worlds are available on themes such as boundaries, agriculture, applied ecology, bio and ecological resources, climate, fisheries and aquaculture, forestry, human health, hydrology and water resources, infrastructures, population and socio-economic indicators, satellite imagery, soils and topography.
Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)
FIRMS Fire Map allows you to interactively browse the full archive of global active fire detections from MODIS and VIIRS. Near real-time fire data are available within approximately 3 hours of satellite overpass and imagery within 4-5 hours.
GADM maps and data
GADM provides maps and spatial data for all countries and their sub-divisions.
Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)
Online search and order tool for selected satellite and aerial data from EROS holdings. It allows browsing of images within USGS’ inventory. A download interface is provided for free datasets.
Google Dataset Search
Google search tool specifically for discovering datasets.
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Map Viewer
SECAD Map Viewer is an interactive web map that allows for viewing, adding, and downloading data from the SEDAC catalog. Data themes include agricultural, climate, energy, food security, and more.
United Nations Data
UN statistical databases, tables, and glossaries containing over 60 million data points that include themes from agriculture, human development, technological developments, industry, and trade.
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Earthquake data in KML, CSV, and XML format. Different viewers, maps, and animations are available for real-time and historic earthquake data.
USGS GTOPO30
Global digital elevation models (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer).
WebGIS
WebGIS.com presently contains extensive map coverage for technical applications including Air Dispersion Modeling, Human Health & Ecological Risk Assessment and Terrain Processing. These maps are ready for download in various formats.
World Bank Open Data
Provides access to more than 5,000 datasets on financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics from World Bank data sources.
WorldClim
WorldClim is a database of high spatial resolution global weather and climate data. You can download gridded weather and climate data for historical (near current) and future conditions.
World Resources Institute - Data
Data produced by the World Resources Institute, based on their research. Data is available in a variety of formats and covers themes including agriculture, biodiversity, infrastructure, and more.

General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)
Global bathymetric data and echo-sounding data.
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS)
Data from the GCOOS catalog, provides information about the environment of the United States portion of the Gulf of Mexico and its estuaries.
NOAA Coastal Elevation Models
NCEI builds and distributes high-resolution, coastal digital elevation models (DEMs) that integrate ocean bathymetry and land topography supporting NOAA's mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment, and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, social, and environmental needs.
NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC)
Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) are vector data sets that support all types of marine navigation.
NOAA Marine Geology and Geophysics World Data Service
Data covers marine geophysics, marine geology, and bathymetry & relief.
NOAA Office of the Coast Survey - Chart Locator
Download Local, regional, and global nautical charts and tools.
NOAA Shoreline Data Exlporer
Shoreline data of the U.S. and adjacent islands.

Astropedia
Lunar and planetary cartographic catalog from USGS. Website does not include a search box, data is navigated by selecting a planet from the chart of planets in the upper left corner.
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth from 1961 through the present.
MARS Global Data Sets
Hosted by Arizona State University, offers interactive maps and downloadable data for Mars, in topics such as thermal infrared mosaics, shaded relief, and mineral maps among others.