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USGS National Map Data Downloads
Hydrography shapefiles and DEMs
usgs.gov
At a glance
- Region
- United States
- Coverage
- Vector and raster water datasets
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- Shapefiles
- Rasters
- National Hydrography Dataset
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Baselines
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- 02
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- 03
Teaching
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Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
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- 02
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- 03
Find related data
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Machine access and documentation
Open API
USGS The National Map download API (NHD/DEM)
Licence: US federal public domain
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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