This layer displays the locations of regulated facilities that discharge pollutants into surface waters in the United States. Location and environmental characteristics about facilities requiring discharge permits is contained in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Facilities requiring permits include industrial, municipal, and other facilities must obtain permits if their discharges go directly to surface waters (via discrete conveyances such as pipes or man-made ditches). Individual homes that are connected to a municipal system are not reported to the EPA. For more information, please visit the EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System web page.
Ethanol Plants
This feature class/shapefile represents Ethanol Plants. An Ethanol Plant is a facility that uses various biomass source to produce ethanol for use as a fuel.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses
These data include number of establishments and corresponding employment change for births, deaths, expansions, and contractions from 2015 to 2016. The data are presented by geographic area, industry, and enterprise employment size.
Army Corps Leveed Areas
This layer displays United States Army Core of Engineers surveyed Leveed Areas. The USACE defines a Levee Areas as the area of a floodplain from which flood water is excluded by the levee system. For more information about USACE data, visit the National Levee Database.
Medical Debt in Collections, 2018
This layer displays debt information at the state and county levels from the Urban Institute’s 2019 Debt in America interactive platform. Data includes medical debt, student loan debt, automobile debt, retail debt and any debt in collections based on December 2018 credit bureau records.
Data from the 2020 County Health Rankings are here!
Data and maps from the 2020 County Health Rankings are now available! Click the map below to view the rank and underlying data for Premature Death, or search for additional updates by searching the Map Room for the term “CHR 2020”.
Physiographic Section Regions
This is a polygon coverage of Physiographic Divisions in the
conterminous United States. It was automated from Fenneman’s
1:7,000,000-scale map, “Physical Divisions of the United
States,” which is based on eight major 1946 divisions, 25 provinces,
and 86 sections representing distinctive areas having common
topography, rock types and structure, and geologic and
geomorphic history.
Ecoegions
Ecoregions are identified by analyzing the patterns and composition of biotic and abiotic phenomena that affect or reflect differences in ecosystem quality and integrity (Omernik 1987, 1995). These phenomena include geology, landforms, soils, vegetation, climate, land use, wildlife, and hydrology. The relative importance of each characteristic varies from one ecological region to another regardless of the hierarchical level. A Roman numeral classification scheme has been adopted for different hierarchical levels of ecoregions, ranging from general regions to more detailed:
Level I – 12 ecoregions in the continental U.S.
Level II – 25 ecoregions in the continental U.S.
Level III -105 ecoregions in the continental U.S.
Level IV – 967 ecoregions in the conterminous U.S.
Explanations of the methods used to define these multi-agency ecoregions are given in Omernik and Griffith (2014), Omernik (1995, 2004), and CEC (1997).
Internet Usage at Broadband Speeds
This layer displays the percent of people who use the internet at broadband speeds (Greater than 25 MBPS download speed). Data is derived from the Microsoft data science and analytics team, using anonymized user data and aggregated to the county level.
Locations of Dental Care Providers
This layer displays the locations of all dental health care providers with a CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI). Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) February 2020 National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file.