GIS & Geospatial Data

(Public) A comprehensive search interface for data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau including demographics, housing, business, and industry. Data is provided as text files, but they will need joined to census-level geographic regions to be used in a GIS.

(Public) Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography site providing access to demographic and geographic data for Mexico.

(Public) Current and historical (1850) demographic and health data out of the University of Minnesota Population Center for the USA and international populations. Includes the NHGIS.

(Public) View data for Maricopa County including parcels, historical aerials, survey points, elections and voting districts, planning and zoning, and stray animal reports. Additional resources available through their Flood, Environmental, and Transportation web application links. Data can be downloaded with submission of a data request form.

(Public) Access maps, data products, and resources produced by Pima County including the PimaMaps application and access to The Pima County GIS Server. GIS Data can be downloaded from the FTP server after account creation.

(Public) Download center for U.S. Census Bureau geographic data and products. Data includes official cartographic boundary files, geographic relationship files, and reference and thematic maps.

(Public) Search over 1000 departments by name, region, or zip code. CrimeReports is the nation's largest collection of law enforcement agencies committed to transparency, public access, and citizen engagement.

(Public) Portal to search and download for BLM datasets. Search nationally or by state. Data includes habitats, wildlife corridors, land ownership, grazing allotments, off-highway vehicle designations, and national monuments.

(Public) A digital repository of maps, data, and products pertaining to environmental issues in North America. Datasets can be previewed from the map viewer or browsed and downloaded individually as listings.

(Public) A searchable map interface showing federal and state EPA data, enabling searches for air, water, hazardous waste, enforcement cases, and facilities data. Data can be exported as CSV or XLS.

(Public) Satellite and aerial imagery covering the entire world that are managed by the USGS. Includes all Landsat collections, AVHRR, DLGs, and DEMs.

(Public) Provides search and download capabilities for high-resolution environmental and natural resource data held in the national Geospatial Data Warehouse.

(Public) Access GIS data including freshwater assessments, natural infrastructure, ecoregional assessments (North America), biotic communities (southwest), and grasslands assessments.

(Public) National and international datasets for lands and waters; terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions; and their ecoregional portfolio.

(Public) Provides data download, web products and services, and web access to orthoimagery, elevation, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover covering the entire nation.

(Public) Landing page for the national weather service. Provides visualization, downloads, and web services for NWS products

(UA Access Only) Access Pima County orthophotography and LIDAR data from 1998, 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2015.

(Public) Access online maps showing locations and perimeters of fires across the United States from 2002 to present. Data downloads available in KML and shapefile formats.

(public) Access open data provided by the USBR. Data includes products for projected temperature and precipitation changes for critical regions including the Columbia, Colorado, Sacramento-San Joaquin, and Rio Grande River basins.

WorldClim is a set of global climate layers (gridded climate data) with a spatial resolution of about 1 km2. These data can be used for mapping and spatial modeling.

OBIS is a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development

(Public) Queryable database of migrant deaths reported the border counties of Arizona between 1981 and 2016 as reported by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, Pima County OME, and Humane Borders. Data exports are in CSV file format.

(Public) Mapping service providing preview and download of data from the Indian Health Service (IHS), U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System.

The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) brings together a global network of researchers with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, from public health to mathematics, geography, and epidemiology. We work together to assemble global databases on malaria risk and intervention coverage and develop innovative analysis methods that use those data to address critical questions. These include better understanding the global landscape of malaria risk, how this is changing, and the impact of malaria interventions. By evaluating burden, trends, and impact at fine geographical scale we support informed decision making for malaria control at international, regional and national scales.

(UA Access Only) Easily access vector data published by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia e Informatíca (INEGI) for for the Mexican border states of Baja Norte, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Data includes contour lines at 10m intervals, transportation data, built up areas, land cover, administrative boundaries and hydrological features. Available for download in shapefile format.

Global Dam Watch is an international collaboration between an expanding group of researchers who are passionate about understanding the costs and benefits of dams to our world. We bring together information about where to find the world’s most comprehensive dam datasets, currently comprising more than 200,000 georeferenced records, and we offer our own curated global compilations.

(Public) A comprehensive search interface for data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau including demographics, housing, business, and industry. Data is provided as text files, but they will need joined to census-level geographic regions to be used in a GIS.

(UA Access Only) World wide coverages showing average populations as a coverage (1 sq km resolution) and also at country levels. Provides some analysis and data download capabilities.

(Public) Visualize data depicting access to healthy food by census tract with comparisons against income level, vehicles access, and household size. Data can be downloaded as Excel files.

(Public) Current and historical (1850) demographic and health data out of the University of Minnesota Population Center for the USA and international populations. Includes the NHGIS.

(Public) Datasets privately processed by Diego Valle-Jones for census data produced by INEGI, INF, and other institutions. Datasets include census geographies, electoral shapefiles, municipalities, crimes, and homicides

(UA Access Only) Sanborn Fire Insurance maps with GIS information that enables users to locate data by address or geographic coordinates. Covers 12 major U.S. cities.

(Public) "Aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for school attendance areas, or school catchment areas, for selected areas in the United States for the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years." Downloads available through NHGIS.

(Public) A comprehensive data center providing reports, data, and maps pertaining subject including to Agriculture, Conservation, Governance, Populations, Infrastructure, and Poverty.

(Public) Download center for U.S. Census Bureau geographic data and products. Data includes official cartographic boundary files, geographic relationship files, and reference and thematic maps.

(Public) Visualizations for statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Provides CSV download capabilities.