Data - City of Hays/Ellis County GSDP

City of Hays Data Access
The City of Hays provides datasets via Web Mapping Services on the Available Web Services page. Please review the City of Hays / Ellis County Electronic GIS Distribution Policy regarding data availability and use.

County of Ellis Data Access
Ellis County maintains datasets across several departments, many of which are freely available through web mapping services on the Available Web Services page. Please review the City of Hays / Ellis County Electronic GIS Distribution Policy regarding data availability and use.

DASC - Data Access & Support Center
The Data Access and Support Center (DASC) was created by the State of Kansas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Policy Board. DASC maintains and administers access to the Kansas GeoDatabase - a collection of various digital spatial information relating to Kansas.

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency's National Geospatial Program has a variety of air and water quality mapping applications, toxic release inventory data, geographic web services, and geospatial datasets including shapefiles, feature class datasets, and KML/KMZ files.

GOS - Geospatial One Stop
A geospatial information portal containing thousands of metadata records and links to live maps, features, catalog services, downloadable data sets, images, clearinghouses, map files, and more.

KGS - Kansas Geological Survey
The Kansas Geological Survey, operated by The University of Kansas, conducts geological studies and research to collect, correlate, preserve, and disseminate information leading to a better understanding of the geology of Kansas. The KGS website provides links for several spatial datasets including shapefiles for oil and gas wells, historical water data, and geologic maps.

NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration
The Global Change Master Directory is a comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data, including the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change.

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) website hosts a variety of data including weather radar, historical precipitation and historical climate data. In addition, NOAA's nowCOAST Information Depot has several dynamic web map services available for real-time observations, warnings and forecasts.

NWS - National Weather Service
The National Weather Service is a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States. The NWS produces several data sets that are available through the National Weather Service GIS Data Portal including shapefiles, KML/KMZ files, and web mapping services.

U.S. Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau maintains the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system including shapefiles. The TIGER/Line® Shapefiles are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas.

USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture's Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) is a source for environmental and natural resources data. You may choose your area of interest, browse and select data from the catalog, customize the format, and have it downloaded or shipped on CD/DVD.

USGS - United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey provides a variety of free datasets and tools through The National Map Seamless Server, including orthoimagery, land cover, and elevation files. Historical and real-time water data for the nation may be accessed from the National Water Information System (NWIS).