GIS Data Layers - Virginia

If you have a computer with Geographic Information System (GIS) software, you can obtain digitized data at the following locations:

Association of College and Research Libraries
- maps and mapping resources
Bureau of Census
- County Business Patterns
- Mapping and Cartographic Resources
  - Geographic Information Systems FAQ
  - Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) files
Chesapeake Information Management System
Economic Research Service - rural data products
Environmental Protection Agency
- Chesapeake Bay Program - Maps and Mapping
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
  - data
  - National Coastal Assessment
- Mid-Atlantic Highlands Streams Assessment data
- Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MLRC) project
- National Spatial Data Clearinghouse Node
- Toxic Release Inventory (TRI): Community Right-to-Know
- see also the Environmental Defense Fund - Scorecard's Data Sources
ESRI
- ArcData Online
- Geography Network
- Schools and Libraries sample data
Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Q3 Flood Data - Virginia counties
- Flood Map Store - Q3 Digital Flood Data and Coastal Barrier Resource Area (CBRA) Q3 Data for Virginia
Federal Geographic Data Committee - Entry Point to Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
GEOSTAT: Geospatial Statistical and Data Center (some data restricted to University of Virginia users only)
- Digital Resources Catalog
- Virginia GIS Data Files and Sources
- Virginia Statewide Maps
GeoCommunity - Virginia (fee site)
GIS Data Depot
GIS Maps and Figures of the Virginia Coast
Housing and Urban Development
- HUD Data Sets
- State of the Cities Data Systems
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses by the University of Minnesota)
James Madison University
- Shenandoah Valley National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
NASA
- Global Change Master Directory
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) GIS data
Old Dominion University - Office of Spatial and Cartographic Information
Radford University - Department of Geography Geoserver
- Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
- Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quads (DOQQs)
- Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs)
Record of American Democracy (data on elections, especially 1984 through 1990)
US Fish and Wildlife Service
- Spatial Data Sources - Organized By Agency
- Virginia Spatial Data Sets
US Forest Service
- George Washington and Jefferson National Forest GIS Home Page
- Economics data
- ecoregions map
- GeoCommunicator
- George Washington and Jefferson National Forest GIS Data
- Mill Locations in the Eastern United States
- Southern Forest Resource Assessment Data Center
US Geological Survey
- Digital Cartographic Data in the Chesapeake Bay Region
- Earth Explorer - FTP access
- Eros Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center - LANDSAT data
- Gap Analysis - Projects and Products
- National Atlas - Map Layers Warehouse
- National Biological Information Infrastructure - NBII Metadata Clearinghouse
- National Land Cover Dataset (and "ReadMe" file for Virginia)
- State Gazetteer Data from Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data base
- USGS Geographic Data Download (EROS Data Center)
- Web Mapping Portal
Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
- County maps on a CD-ROM
Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP)
Virginia Planning District Commissions - GIS Inventory
Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN)
- GIS Resources
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
- Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Program (CCI) Online GIS Databases
- Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Distribution Data Archive
- Virginia Tidal Wetlands Impacts Data
Virginia Tech
- Conservation Management Institute - GIS data
- maps, GIS and cartographic data
- Virginia Gap analysis
- Virginia's Geospatial Extension Program