Data sets tagged with "usgov"

The US government’s ‘Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing’ system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic information. It is county-level data that documents physical features like roads and rivers, as well as some administrative features such as Congressional districts. Data can be downloaded for ...

About Collection of links to different US image collections in the public domain. Openness > Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, and they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use. ...

###About “This is the main distribution web site for spatial data generated for, and collected by, the Mineral Resources Program (MRP) of the U.S. Geological Survey. This site is operated by the Spatial Information Delivery Project of the MRP. The site distributes detailed Mineral Resource, Geochemical, and Geophysical data along with regional and global geologic, ...

About > Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database Network is a project of EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology, helping to build a public data foundation for improved structure-activity and predictive toxicology capabilities. The DSSTox website provides a public forum for publishing downloadable, structure-searchable, standardized ...

Description From the main page: > GenBank® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D25-30). There are approximately 85,759,586,764 bases in 82,853,685 sequence records in the traditional GenBank divisions and 108,635,736,141 bases in 27,439,206 ...

Description [Taken verbatim from the above url] These data comprise detail information on almost 3 million U.S. patents granted between January 1963 and December 1999, all citations made to these patents between 1975 and 1999 (over 16 million), and a reasonably broad match of patents to Compustat (the data set of all firms traded in the U.S. stock market). These ...

About data Temperature mean, max and min for 5×5 grid over all of the earth: > The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Monthly) data base contains historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide. The period of record varies from station to station, with several thousand extending back to 1950 and several ...

About > Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more. > Yosemite Nature Notes is a video podcast series that tells unique stories about the natural and ...

About From [About page](http://www.ars.usda.gov/AboutUs/AboutUs.htm): > The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific research agency. Our job is finding solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day, from field to table. From [Datasets ...