Data.gov

A collection of datasets

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Datasets in this collection (734 datasets):

National Water Information System (NWIS) *****

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

NWIS supports the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information about water quantity and quality collected at over 1.5 million sites around the U.S. As a long-term database and information delivery system, NWIS provides continual access to data collected over the last 100+ yea …
Science | Geography

2005-2007 American Community Survey Three-Year PUMS Housing File **

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

National survey that collects data from a sample of the resident population in the United States. Housing units in every county in the United States and municipio in Puerto Rico, including institutional and non-institutional group quarters, are included in the sample.

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Social Sciences » Demographics

U.S. Commerical Nuclear Power Reactors **

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Demographic data on U.S. Commerical Nuclear Power Reactors, including: licensee data, location, web address, capacity (MW).

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: August, 2009
  • Date Updated: September, 2009
  • Time Period: Through 2008
  • Data.gov …
Science | Economics

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program publishes a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry.

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Data …

Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

Standard Occupational Classification

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are classified into one of over 820 occupations according to their occupati …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

Interest Rate Statistics

Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates (1991) | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Treasury Yield Curve Rates. These rates are commonly referred to as “Constant Maturity Treasury” rates, or CMTs. Yields are interpolated by the Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity is based on the closing market bid yields …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Politics and Law

Tornado Tracks and Icons, 1950-2006

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) routinely collects reports of severe weather and compiles them with public access from the database called SeverePlot (Hart and Janish 1999) with a Graphic Information System (GIS). The composite SVRGIS information is made available …
Science | Geography

2007 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of North Dakota

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of South Carolina

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET)

Ozone | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

8-hour daily maximum ozone concentrations as measured by the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET)

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 4/1/1987
  • Date Updated: 5/5/2009
  • Time Period: 8-hour maximum over a single day
  • Data.gov Data Ca …
Science | Geography

Air Emissions Where You Live KMZ File

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

A KMZ file with the location of all major facilities that emit pollutants into the atmopshere.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 01/01/2008
  • Date Updated: 05/11/2009
  • Time Period: 1 year (2002)
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catal …
Science | Geography

2007 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of Oregon

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Geochemistry of Soils from the Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS) Database

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Geochemical data for soils collected by USGS personnel and analyzed by USGS. These data were part of the Rock Analysis Storage System and are now merged into the National Geochemistry Database.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 2001
  • Date U …
Science | Geography

2007 Toxics Release Inventory National data file of all US States and Territories

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Foreign Labor Statistics

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The International Labor Comparisons (ILC) program provides international comparisons of hourly compensation costs; productivity and unit labor costs; labor force, employment and unemployment rates; and consumer prices. The comparisons relate primarily to the major industrial countries, but other …
Economics | Politics and Law

Worldwide M2.5+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past 7 days

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: today-7days
  • Date Updated: continuously
  • Time Period: continuously
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: continuously
  • Speci …
Science | Geography

Geospatial display of current weather radar images (RIDGE Weather Radar)

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Provides GIS overlays for current weather radar results

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: Unknown
  • Date Updated: near real time
  • Time Period: near real time
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: near real time
  • Spec …
Science | Geography

Active Mines and Mineral Plants in the US

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Mine plants and operations for commodities monitored by the Minerals Information Team of the USGS. Operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the USGS.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 2005
  • Date Updated: 2005 …
Science | Geography

2009 Federal Register in XML

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. Published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (N …

National Compensation Survey

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides comprehensive measures of occupational wages; employment cost trends, and benefit incidence and detailed plan provisions. Detailed occupational earnings are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, broad geographic regions, and on a na …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of Tennessee

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of South Dakota

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

2006 Crime in the United States

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Extraction of offense, arrest, and clearance data as well as law enforcement staffing information from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: Sep-07
  • Date Updated: Sep-07
  • Time Period: January 20 …
Social Sciences » Criminology | Politics and Law

Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Medicare Cost Report Data

FY2005 | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

A collection of SNF Medicare cost report data from the CMS Form 2540-96.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 08/14/09
  • Date Updated: 06/30/09
  • Time Period: 2005
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: Quarterly
  • Special …
Science | Medicine » Public Health

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of California

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Public Libraries Survey

Fiscal Year 2007 | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

This dataset is a national census of public library systems. Its data elements cover library service measures such as the number of uses of electronic resources, the number of Internet terminals available to the general public, reference transactions, interlibrary loans, circulation, library visi …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

National scope of NAWQA water-quality sample- and laboratory-result data and other supporting information obtained from NWIS systems hosted by individual Water Science Centers as well as national BioTDB system for aquatic biological data on communities and habitats and stored in a centralized NAW …
Science | Geography

Chemical Analyses of Soils and other Surficial Materials of the Coterminous US

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Geochemistry of soils and other regoliths collected and analyzed by Hans Shacklette and colleagues from 1958 until about 1976

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 1981
  • Date Updated: 1981
  • Time Period: samples collected 1958-1976
  • Data.gov D …
Science | Geography

NWIS

USGS Water Quality Web Service | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

National scope of USGS water quality sample and laboratory result data and information obtained from the NWIS/NWISWeb systems (the data available is a subset of NWISWeb) and NAWQA Data Warehouse

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 10/01/2008
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Science | Geography

Immigrant Orphans Adopted by U.S. Citizens by Gender, Age, and Region and Country of Birth

Fiscal Year 2008 | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Access data on immigrants who became legal permanent residents in fiscal year 2008 by class of admission, country of birth, state of residence, and other characteristics

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Updated: 16-Apr-09
  • Time Period: Annual
  • Data …

2007 Toxics Release Inventory for Federal Facilities

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Geology of the Coterminous United States

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

A digital version of the Geologic Map of the United States, originally published at a scale of 1:2,500,000 (King and Beikman, 1974b). It excludes Alaska and Hawaii.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 1974
  • Date Updated: 1994
  • Time Period: t …
Science | Geography

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of Pennsylvania

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Public Libraries Survey

Fiscal Year 2006 | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

This dataset is a national census of public library systems. Its data elements cover library service measures such as the number of uses of electronic resources, the number of Internet terminals available to the general public, reference transactions, interlibrary loans, circulation, library visi …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

Earnings Data from the Benefits and Earnings Public-Use File, 2004

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

This file contains Earnings data and is part of a set of two separate but associated subfiles, one with Social Security benefit information and the other with longitudinal earnings information. Sample beneficiary records drawn from the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program …
Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past 7 Days

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past 7 days

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: today-7days
  • Date Updated: continuously
  • Time Period: continuously
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: continuously
  • Speci …
Science | Geography

Mineral Operations of Africa and the Middle East

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Attributes of over 1,500 mineral facilities

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 2006
  • Date Updated: 2006
  • Time Period: current as of 2006
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: as needed
  • Specialized Data Category Desi …
Science | Geography

Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.

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Economics » Labor and Employment | Social Sciences

EPA Geospatial Data Download

Facility and Site Information | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Contains informaiton about facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation, including key facility information along with associated environmental interests for use in mapping and reporting applications.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Relea …
Science | Geography

Database of Tornado, Large Hail, and Damaging Wind Reports, 1950-2006

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) routinely collects reports of severe weather and compiles them with public access from the database called SeverePlot (Hart and Janish 1999) with a Geographic Information System (GIS). The composite SVRGIS information is made availa …
Science | Geography

2007 Hate Crime Statistics

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Extraction of bias-motivated offense data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: Nov-08
  • Date Updated: Nov-08
  • Time Period: January 2007 through December 2007
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: …
Social Sciences » Criminology | Politics and Law

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) Snow Water Equivalents

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The National Weather Service (NWS) National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) provides comprehensive snow observations, analyses, data sets and map products. Available to all, these products specifically support a wide variety of government and private-sector applications in w …
Science | Geography

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of Illinois

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Past Atlantic Storm Tracks

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The National Weather Service (NWS) maintains historical Atlantic Ocean hurricane weather data in a format that can be exploited by Graphic Information System (GIS) software. Using KML/KMZ formats, it takes the numbers and words from the rows and columns in databases and spreadsheets and puts them …
Science | Geography

Patent Grant Bibliographic Data (2009)

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Contains the bibliographic text (i.e., front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) organized by Calendar Year (January through December). Excludes images/drawings. This file is a subset of the Patent Grant Data/XML Version 4.2 ICE (Text Only). The file format is eXtensible Markup La …
Economics » Trade

2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for American Somoa

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.

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Dataset Summa …

Science | Geography

Resource Data File

Alaska (ARDF) | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

The value of mineral production by state in the United States. The data represent commodities covered by the Minerals Information Team of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 1988
  • Date Updated: 2008
  • Time Period: …
Science | Geography

Global Trade

World Copper Smelters | Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

Locations and characteristics of world copper smelters

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 2003
  • Date Updated: 2003
  • Time Period: current as of 2003
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: as needed
  • Specialized Data Ca …
Science | Geography

Data.gov Catalog

Data.gov | Added by Infochimps 3 months ago

CSV format download containing the metadata for the Data.gov raw datasets and tools catalogs.

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Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: June, 2009
  • Date Updated: June, 2009
  • Time Period: Daily
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Freq …