Geospatial Data Sources

Description: data on patient demographics, primary tumor site, tumor morphology, stage at diagnosis, and first course of treatment collected by SEER registries

Geography: the SEER registry areas by state, registry, and county

Years: incidence data from 1975

Description: cancer statistics, charts, and maps by data topic across the cancer control continuum

Geography: U.S. by states and counties

Years: most recent 5 years

Description: incidence and mortality data with linked maps, graphs, and tables

Geography: U.S. by states, counties, and congressional districts

Years: latest available year and 5-year period

Description: combined data for the U.S. and Canada from NAACCR

Geography: U.S. and Canada by states/provinces

Years: the most recent 5 years

Description: global cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence estimates

Geography: worldwide by country

Years: latest available year

Description: quick access to cancer screening, diet and exercise, smoking, women’s health, and vaccine data

Geography: U.S. by states and counties

Years: latest available

Description: model-based estimates of cancer risk factors and screening behaviors, tobacco use and policies, and cancer-related knowledge

Geography: U.S. by states, health service areas, and counties

Years: varies by topic; 1, 2, or 3 year periods for select years

Description: history of smoke-free policy laws in workplaces, restaurants, and bars

Geography: U.S. by state, county, and city

Years: data by year since 1990, map animation in 5-year increments from 1990-2015 and in 1-year increments from 2016-2018

Description: behavioral risk factor data on a variety of health topics

Geography: U.S. by state and metro area; includes Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands

Years: varies by topic; typically data available by year or every 2 years

Description: small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use from the CDC and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Geography: census tract level data for the largest 500 cities in the United States

Years: released annually since 2016

Description: provides annual or monthly NO2 estimates at the centroid location for every year ~2000 US census block in the continental United States.

Geography: U.S. census tracts and block groups

Years: 2000-2010

Description: provides estimates of outdoor concentrations for seven pollutants (four gases: O3, CO, SO2, NO2; three aerosols: PM10, PM2.5, PN [particle number]) throughout the contiguous U.S.

Geography: national, state, county, census tract, and census block group levels

Years: 1979-2017

Description: ranks the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice on health for every census tract.

Geography: census tract

Years: 2022

Description: brings together data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand.

Geography: state and county

Years: varies

Description: estimates of average daily solar radiation

Geography: by county for the continental U.S.

Years: 30-year average based on data from 1961-1990

Description: provides frozen data from EPA's retired Air Facility System (AFS) for Clean Air Act stationary sources.

Geography: point (plant/facility address)

Years: 2014

Description: database containing all of the information from AQS, every measured value the EPA has collected via the national ambient air monitoring program, including the associated aggregate values calculated by EPA (8-hour, daily, annual, etc.)

Geography: core based statistical areas; county; air monitor location (latitude/longitude)

Years: 1980-2023

Description: Ambient Monitoring Archive (AMA) for hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

Geography: Point (2,600 monitoring sites)

Years: 2000-2017

Description: geospatial data, tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their stressors, and human health

Geography: U.S. at various scales as well as some data for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and specific cities and towns

Years: latest available, varies by data source

Description: database which includes both the current and historical data needed to estimate long-term trends in environmental radiation levels

Geography: state, city, monitoring region, or EPA region

Years: 1978-2023

Description: interactive map to explore a variety of environmental and demographic indicators, and environmental justice indexes

Geography: U.S. by census block group

Years: latest available, varies by data source

Description: presents data in five domains: air, water, land, built, and sociodemographic environments to provide a county-by-county snapshot of overall environmental quality across the entire U.S.

Geography: county

Years: 2006-2010

Description: search for facilities that emit the following GHG's based on selected criteria: Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6), Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Methane (CH4)

Geography: address

Years: 2010-2022

Description: identifies areas of the U.S. with the potential for elevated indoor radon levels.

Geography: county

Years: 1993

Description: collection of data that represents emissions from point sources (facilities), emissions from prescribed burning and wildfires and emisions from nonroad mobile sources (trains)

Geography: point and polygon

Years: 1990-2023

Description: monitors the nation's air, precipitation and drinking water to track radiation in the environment

Geography: monitor locations across the U.S.

Years: Current

Description: provides detailed air model results at the grid-cell level

Geography: Grid points across the U.S.

Years: 1988-2015

Description: a resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities.

Geography: county

Years: varies

Description: used to “fuse” daily ozone (8-hr max) and fine particulate air (24-hr average) monitoring data from the National Air Monitoring Stations/State and Local Air Monitoring Stations (NAMS/SLAMS) with 12 km gridded output from the Models-3/Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model.

Geography: state, census tract

Years: 2002-2016

Description: provides consistent spatial and temporal comparisons of vegetation canopy greenness, a composite property of leaf area, chlorophyll and canopy structure.

Geography: varies

Years: varies

Description: provides a global perspective and a wealth of data about Earth systems, enable data-informed decision making based on the current and future state of our planet

Geography: census tract

Description: contains daily predictions of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) concentrations at a high resolution (1 km x 1 km grid cells) for the years 2000 to 2016

Geography: Contiguous U.S.

Years: 2000-2016

Description: addresses where, when, why, and how the Nation's water quality has changed, or is likely to change in the future, in response to human activities and natural factors.

Geography: county

Years: 1992-2019

Description: collection of climatic data that offers public access and consumption via discovery and ordering services.

Geography: U.S. stations (point-level data)

Years: varies

Description: graphs of the UV Index forecast and “clear sky” UV Index forecast over the course of a year.

Geography: radiation stations by city

Years: 1994-2017

Description: comprehensive summary of agricultural activity for the United States and for each state.

Geography: U.S. by states and counties

Years: 2017

Description: land cover types based on Landsat imagery.

Geography: varies

Years: 1985-2080

Description: geochemistry of soils and other regoliths collected and chemically analyzed by a variety of techniques

Geography: point (latitude/longitude)

Years: 1958-1976

Description: quantifies hourly North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (FFCO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer than has been achieved in the past to aid in quantification of the North American carbon budget, to support inverse estimation of carbon sources and sinks, and to support the demands posed by higher resolution FFCO2 observations (in situ and remotely sensed)

Geography:

Years: Current

Description: integrates publicly available water-quality data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies.

Geography:

Years: varies

Description: locations of Medicare and Medicaid service providers

Geography: U.S. provider point locations

Years: 2008, 2009, 2014, and 2015

Description: data on Health Care Professions, Health Facilities, Population Characteristics, Economics, Health Professions Training, Hospital Utilization, Hospital Expenditures, and Environment

Geography: U.S., state, and county

Years: latest available

Description: locations of FDA-certified mammography facilities

Geography: U.S. facility addresses (not geocoded)

Years: latest available, updated periodically

Description: geographic data for administrative units (Census Tracts or Block Groups)

Geography: U.S. by states and counties

Years: latest available

Description: provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their chemical and non-chemical stressors, and human health.

Geography: block group

Years:

Description: presents data in five domains: air, water, land, built, and sociodemographic environments to provide a county-by-county snapshot of overall environmental quality across the entire U.S.

Geography: county

Years: 2006-2010

Description: characterizes Census block groups and tracts based on their relative walkability.

Geography: block group, census tracts

Years: 2017-2020

Description: a variety of measures of locational efficiency: how easy is it to get where you need to go

Geography: U.S. by block group

Years: database released in 2013, source data mostly from 2010 to 2012

Description: contains information on over 50 data sources on Health Care Professions, Health Facilities, Population Characteristics, Economics, Health Professions Training, Hospital Utilization, Hospital Expenditures, and Environment.

Geography: county, state, national

Years: 2019-2022

Description: created datasets to described the extent to which a residential area is urban or rural.

Geography: census tract

Years: 2010

Description: data depicting a sprawl measure based on density, land use, employment, and street accessibility.

Geography: census tract, county, urbanized area, or MSA

Years: 2000, 2010

Description: quick access to data on diet, obesity, and physical activity

Geography: U.S. by state

Years: latest available

Description: a sprawl measure based on density, land use, employment, and street accessibility

Geography: U.S. by tract, county, metro area, and urban area

Years: 2010

Description: a wide variety of data on food environment indicators

Geography: U.S. by counties

Years: latest available; archived data back to 2011

Description: data on supermarket accessibility and low-income populations

Geography: U.S. by tract

Years: latest available; archived data back to 2011

Description: annual population estimates by age and race/ethnicity

Geography: U.S. by states and counties

Years: data by year since 1969

Description: demographic and socioeconomic characteristics linked with cancer data

Geography: U.S. by counties

Years: 1990, 2000, 2010, and 5-year ACS intervals since 2007-11

Description: neighborhood deprivation index data codebook, methods, and data files

Geography: U.S. by states and tract IDs

Years: latest available

Description: a set of demographic and socioeconomic measures

Geography: U.S. by tract

Years: 2005-9, 2006-10, 2007-11, and 2011-15

Description: population counts in one kilometer grid cells

Geography: global

Years: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020

Description: boundaries for standard Census geographic areas

Geography: U.S. urban areas and urban clusters (groups of tracts and blocks)

Years: each decennial census

Description: urban area boundaries based on urban development

Geography: U.S. urban areas and urban clusters (groups of tracts and blocks)

Years: each decennial census

Description: geographic areas based on hospital catchment areas from the Dartmouth Atlas

Geography: U.S. HSAs and HRRs

Years: varies by topic

Description: a collection of health research and services data

Geography: U.S. by states, counties, congressional districts and HHS regions

Years: various

Description: geocoded U.S. place names as defined by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names

Geography: point locations in U.S. states, territories and associated areas

Years: Current place names, updated regularly (with some historic place names)

Description: open data built by a global community of local mappers

Geography: global coverage with point and linear features and administrative boundaries

Years: latest available data

Description: geographical data from the U.S. Geological Survey: boundaries, elevations, hydrology, points of interest, structures, and transportation features

Geography: national coverage

Years: latest available data