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.
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Aerial Photography, Digital (DOQ/DOQQ)
- 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
- WAGDA 2000 Census geodatabases - boundaries and census data for the entire state and for individual Puget Sound counties
- U.S. Census Bureau Factfinder
- 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
- Digital Elevation Models
- 10 Meter
- Various links hosted by ESS
- Washington State 10 Meter DEMs by USGS quad hosted by ESS
- 30 Meter
- 10 Meter
- Lidar Data
- 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 -- Metadata
- Under development! Check back for further data availability
- usSEABED Pacific Coast & Western Region
Data on the geology and geophysics of the ocean floors.
- Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework Clearinghouse
- Streamnet.org
- Department of Ecology
- Hydrography, Pollution, Political/Administrative
- Department of Transportation
- Hydrography, Political/Administrative, Pollution, Transportation
- Office of Financial Management / State Data Center
- Demography, Hydrography, Political/Administrative
- NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)
- Land Cover from the USGS
- Pack Forest GIS data from the Center for Sustainable Forestry, UW College of Forest Reources
- 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.
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