University of Richmond GIS Data Repository is currently under review and maintenance. In the meantime, please use some of the links below or search for data using ArcGIS Online. If you have any questions about data, please email Taylor Holden at taylor.holden@richmond.edu
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ESRI Data and Maps ArcGIS Online content that can be downloaded. Many worldwide and national data sets available
External Links
Census
Census Bureau TIGER Dataset
National Historical Geographic Information System
Social Explorer Must be on the UR network
Climate and Weather
Global Carbon Atlas
Global Forest Change
NOAA
Human Geography
Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups
GARDEN Nodes
Virginia Tech
The College of William & Mary
Geology
The National Geologic Map Database
Local Data
Digital Elevation Models for Virginia
Henrico County GIS
Richmond City GIS
Physical Geography
EPA EnviroAtlas
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative
The Nature Conservancy’s Geospatial Condition Analysis
Remote Sensing
LANDSAT Imagery
National Agriculture Imagery Program
National Land Cover Database
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science
Virginia Base Mapping Program
Water
National Hydrography Dataset
National Wetlands Inventory
USGS Virginia Water Data
Virginia Hydrography (Scroll all the way to the bottom!)
Links of Multiple GIS Datasets
ArcGIS Online Requires an account with ArcGIS Online
DIVA-GIS (Lots of country-level basemap data)
The National Map (Basemap data and more for the U.S.)
NPScape (Variety of physical and human geography data)
Robin Wilson’s “Free GIS Data” (Over 300 links!)
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Geospatial Data Gateway
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer
Virginia GIS Clearinghouse (via ArcGIS Online)
Virginia Information Technologies Agency Base Map Data Layers
Wikipedia: List of GIS Data Sources
This page was last edited March 4, 2015.
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