Federal GIS Data Saved and Archived

"The Data Rescue Project is pleased to announce that we have archived all of the data layers from the defunct HIFLD Open GIS repository in DataLumos. This collection provides foundational geospatial layers for the nation as a whole. While useful for any type of GIS project, it is particularly important for emergency management, regional planning, and suitability analysis. The geographic features we archived represent both infrastructure and natural features: schools, hospitals, power plants, highways, rivers, flood zones, ports, mines, seismic areas, administrative boundaries, and much more. 

HIFLD Open was a portal that gathered GIS data produced by dozens of federal agencies in one convenient location. Much of the portal’s content is still available from the individual agencies that produced the datasets, and will continue to be updated by these agencies; it will just be more challenging to find and gather. The collection in DataLumos captures a final snapshot of the repository right before it went offline in August of 2025. It will be useful for data users and mappers who need easily accessible and relatively current data for the next couple of years; after that, it will serve primarily as a historic archive."