Geospatial Data Resources

Find authoritative statewide and regional datasets for Utah, including administrative boundaries, transportation, parcels, imagery, elevation, demographics, and environmental features.

Utah Geospatial Resource Center (UGRC)
Authoritative statewide geospatial data for Utah, including administrative boundaries, transportation, parcels, imagery, elevation, demographics, and environmental features.

Explore population, housing, socioeconomic, boundary, and human-environment datasets for community and demographic research.

U.S. Census Bureau TIGER / Line Shapefiles
Current and historical geographic boundary and feature files for the United States, including roads, legal and statistical areas, and geographic identifiers that can be joined to Census demographic data.

American Community Survey (ACS)
Annual demographic, social, economic, and housing estimates for communities throughout the United States, available at multiple geographic levels for population, planning, and policy research.

Terra Populus
Integrated population and environmental data—including census, land-cover, land-use, agriculture, temperature, and precipitation information—for studying human–environment relationships across space and time.

Access land cover, wetlands, soils, vegetation, forest, agricultural, and natural-resource datasets.

Annual National Land Cover Database (Annual NLCD)
Annual land-use and land-cover data for the conterminous United States, supporting research on landscape change, urban development, ecosystem conditions, wildfire hazards, and natural-resource management.

National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)
Wetland and deepwater habitat data for the United States, supporting ecological, hydrological, conservation, and land-management research.

Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO)
Detailed soil map units and associated properties for local and regional applications in agriculture, hydrology, engineering, ecology, and land-use planning.

Gridded National Soil Survey Geographic Database (gNATSGO)
Seamless gridded soil data for the conterminous United States, designed for regional and national-scale environmental modeling and analysis.

U.S. Forest Service
Forest, vegetation, and land-management data derived from remote sensing, inventories, and field observations for ecosystem and natural-resource research.

Find historical and current climate, weather, coastal, hydrological, and natural-hazard data.

NASA Earth Observations (NEO)
Global satellite-derived imagery and environmental datasets covering the atmosphere, land, ocean, energy, and biological systems, available as daily, weekly, and monthly views.

NOAA Climate Data Online (CDO)
Historical weather and climate observations for the United States and global locations, including temperature, precipitation, wind, and other atmospheric measurements.

NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coastal and marine data—including shorelines, hydrography, water levels, tides, and ocean observations—for research, planning, and resource management.

FEMA Flood Map Service Center
Official flood-hazard maps and related floodplain data for evaluating flood risk, supporting community planning, and informing emergency-management research.

Discover elevation models, LiDAR, satellite imagery, aerial photography, hydrography, and foundational topographic data.

OpenTopography
High-resolution topographic, lidar, and elevation datasets with browser-based tools for data discovery, visualization, and terrain analysis.

USGS EarthExplorer
Search and download satellite imagery, aerial photography, elevation models, land-cover products, and other remotely sensed data from the United States and around the world.

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Near-global elevation data derived from radar observations, commonly used for terrain analysis, hydrological modeling, and environmental research.

ASTER Global DEM
Near-global digital elevation data at approximately 30-meter resolution for terrain, watershed, and environmental analysis.

The National Map
Foundational geospatial data and topographic products for the United States, including elevation, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and digital maps.

USGS Orthoimagery
Georeferenced aerial imagery corrected for terrain and sensor distortion, suitable for mapping, change detection, planning, and spatial analysis.

3D Hydrography Program (3DHP)
Elevation-derived hydrography data representing streams, lakes, catchments, drainage areas, and related water features for hydrological and hydraulic analysis.

Locate historical maps and aerial photographs for studying landscape, environmental, and urban change over time.

National Archives Cartographic & Architectural Branch
Historical maps, charts, plans, and aerial photographs documenting changes in landscapes, communities, infrastructure, and land use.

National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP)
Historical black-and-white and color-infrared aerial photographs of the conterminous United States collected from 1987 to 2007 for mapping and landscape-change research.

National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
High-resolution, leaf-on aerial imagery of the conterminous United States acquired during growing seasons for agricultural, land-use, environmental, and change-detection applications.

Create interactive or printable terrain models using elevation data and web-based visualization tools.

TouchTerrain
Free web application for creating downloadable, 3D-printable terrain models from real-world elevation data.