Washington State - GIS Data

This page contains links to both internal (WAGDA) and external webpages dealing with data which generally covers all of Washington State.

Need some basic Washington basemap layers? Try either the WA Dept of Ecology or the WA Office of Financial Management.

Aerial Photography, Digital (DOQ/DOQQ)

• 2006 NAIP Aerial Photography of Washington UW Restricted (data offline)
  • Color, 18" resolution, statewide coverage. Current UW students, faculty, and staff may request imagery from this dataset by describing their area of interest in an email to gis@lib.washington.edu
  • Non-UW affiliated persons who wish to acquire this data must contact Ascent GIS directly
• Aerial Photography for the Puget Sound area hosted by WAGDA
  • includes call numbers for CD-ROMs offline in the Suzzallo Map Collection
  • includes links to other sources of viewable and downloadable photography
• USFS and USGS DOQQs for Washington State hosted by ESS

Census / Demographic Data

• WAGDA 2000 Census geodatabases - boundaries and census data for the entire state and for individual Puget Sound counties
• U.S. Census Bureau Factfinder
• 2000 Census data from ESRI data and shapefiles for Washington on a county by county basis in one download (one file for each county)
• 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles from the Census Bureau - more detailed than the Cartographic Boundary Files which have been available for several years.
• See Working with U.S. Census Data for additional resources
• Office of Financial Management / State Data Center
  • Demography, Hydrography, Political/Administrative
• Department of Health
  • Health, Pollution

Elevation Data

• Digital Elevation Models
  • 10 Meter
    • Various links hosted by ESS
    • Washington State 10 Meter DEMs by USGS quad hosted by ESS
  • 30 Meter
    • DEM of Western Washington including bathymetry hosted by Oceanography
    • Washington State 30 Meter DEMs by USGS quad hosted by ESS
• Data Archives for Puget Sound (UW School of Oceanography)
• Lidar Data
  • Mount Saint Helens Lidar Data hosted by WAGDA
  • Puget Sound Lidar Consortium

Geology

• Digital Geologic Data for Washington
• Washington State Geologic Information Portal - Dept of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources (DGER)
  • Washington State Geologic Information Portal -- GIS Data
• usSEABED Pacific Coast & Western Region
  Data on the geology and geophysics of the ocean floors.

Hydrography

• Data Archives for Puget Sound (UW School of Oceanography)
• National Hydrography Dataset
• Streamnet.org
• Department of Ecology
  • Hydrography, Pollution, Political/Administrative
• Department of Transportation
• Hydrography, Political/Administrative, Pollution, Transportation

Parcel Database

• Washington State Parcels Working Group
  • Parcel Database covering the entire Washington State is available on request to UW students/faculty but not hosted online

Land Use - Land Cover

• NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)
• Land Cover from the USGS

Transportation

• Department of Natural Resources
  • Cadastral, Elevation, Flora/Fauna, Geology/Soils, Hydrography, Transportation
• Department of Transportation
• Hydrography, Political/Administrative, Pollution, Transportation
• Puget Sound Regional Council
  • Inter-governmental organization primarily responsible for transportation planning in the Puget Sound region.
• SoundTransit data UW Restricted
  • Sound Transit plans, builds and operates regional transit systems and services to improve mobility for Central Puget Sound.

Washington State Government Agencies - Types of GIS Resources

• Department of Ecology
  • Hydrography, Pollution, Political/Administrative
• Department of Fish and Wildlife
  • Flora/Fauna
  • Interactive Map Services hosted by WDFW
• Department of Health
  • Health, Pollution
• Department of Natural Resources
  • Cadastral, Elevation, Flora/Fauna, Geology/Soils, Hydrography, Transportation
• Department of Revenue
  • Political/Administrative
  • Tax Rate Lookup Tool
• Department of Transportation
• Hydrography, Political/Administrative, Pollution, Transportation
• Office of Financial Management / State Data Center
  • Demography, Hydrography, Political/Administrative

UW Campus Spatial Data Servers

• sde.gis.washington.edu - made available by the Rural Technology Initiative
• coal.ess.washington.edu - made available by ESS and PRISM
• downloadable raster and vector data from ESS