Resources

The following sources have a multitude of data that crosses the categories listed below. Have fun exploring!

• The Colorado Information Marketplace hosts over 2100 data sets, with 320 available maps.
• The Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) has a wealth of demographic data sets for download.
• The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) has over 120 online maps and data sets from stationary pollution sources to Covid-19 data.
• The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has over 40 online maps and data sets, from highways to mile markers.
• The University of Colorado hosts a very large GeoLibrary with hundreds of sources from sage grouse brooding areas to a map of lakes sourced from CDOT.

Air Quality & Pollution

• The Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) has an interactive viewer of stationary sources of air pollution across Colorado, which includes a CSV export tool. Visit Reported air toxics emissions data for more information.
• The Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) has a data portal with downloads.
• The Colorado EnviroScreen portal has a data repository with downloads of a large number of environmental and demographic factors.
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers a geospatial data download service with downloads available in KML, file geodatabase, and CSV formats.

Basemaps

• You can download a free vector data set of every state in the US courtesy of Geofabrik and the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• The Colorado Information Marketplace hosts a map of Colorado municipal boundaries.

Climate Change

• NCA5 Atlas Global Warming Level Climate Projections

DEMs

• Use the 30-Meter SRTM Tile Downloader to fetch elevation data from NASA’s EOSDIS Earthdata site (free account required).

Energy

• The Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) has many of their data sets available for download as SHP files, which you may also browse online.
• The Global Energy Monitor has a Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker.
• The US Energy Information Administration has almost 120 different data sets and maps which tend to the more national/generic and are best for large scale visualizations.

Geographic & Political Boundaries

• You may download final approved Congressional district map and the House district map in KML, PDF, or SHP format from the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions.
• The US Census has a large variety of cartographic boundary files.

US Energy Information Administration

• The EIA has a wealth of data and information available, from LNG exports over time to an hourly electric grid monitor. Visit https://www.eia.gov/ to browse.

Water

• CU Boulder’s GeoLibrary repository has lakes, streams, and more in its hydrography category.
• The Colorado Department of Natural Resources has a map of wells to browse with an online viewer and download as a shapefile.

Weather

• WorldClim has global climate and weather data available for download in GeoTiff format.

Wildlife

• CU Boulder’s GeoLibrary repository has lakes, streams, and more in its wildlife conservation category.