Centauri Location
Centauri Location
Houston and Harris County publish a huge amount of open data, scattered across dozens of portals nobody tracks. This catalog lists every dataset we've found in one place, whether or not it's loaded into the explorer. Know a source we're missing? Add it, and it's shared with everyone.
| Source | What it is | Items | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris County ArcGIS Online services.arcgis.com |
One organization shared by county departments, precincts and staff. Mixes authoritative layers (fire stations, parks, crashes) with many working copies and one-off maps; review before use. | 3,112 | 16 |
| Rice University ArcGIS Online services.arcgis.com |
Research and class projects. Houston gems (HCFCD buyout lots, draft 2026 FEMA flood map, historical census, redlining) among worldwide student work. Research copies of agency data need permission before reuse. | 2,888 | 0 |
| Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online services2.arcgis.com |
Environmental and regional research layers; source of the 2021 city cool-center list. | 528 | 1 |
| City of Houston GIS (ArcGIS Hubs) geohub.houstontx.gov |
Two Hub sites (Public Works geohub, citywide mycity) over several ArcGIS servers. Official. | 314 | 119 |
| Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online services2.arcgis.com |
High-water marks, floodplains, projects, acreage by program. Source of the storm HWM layers. | 265 | 4 |
| City of Houston Open Data (data.houstontx.gov) data.houstontx.gov |
Separate from the GIS hubs. Mostly spreadsheets; finance (checkbook, payroll, budget) and census stay current, much else frozen since a 2023 migration. | 94 | 0 |
| U.S. Census Bureau api.census.gov |
4 | 3 | |
| FEMA (OpenFEMA and National Flood Hazard Layer) www.fema.gov |
4 | 3 | |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data.epa.gov |
2 | 2 | |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.cdc.gov |
2 | 2 | |
| Texas Commission on Environmental Quality www.tceq.texas.gov |
2 | 1 | |
| Texas Water Development Board www.twdb.texas.gov |
1 | 1 | |
| U.S. Geological Survey water data waterservices.usgs.gov |
1 | 0 | |
| City of Houston 311 public data extracts www.houstontx.gov |
1 | 1 | |
| METRO (Harris County transit) www.ridemetro.org |
1 | 0 | |
| Stanford Open Policing Project openpolicing.stanford.edu |
1 | 0 | |
| TxDOT Crash Records Information System (CRIS) cris.dot.state.tx.us |
1 | 0 |
2,869 matches (likely staff working copies and non-Houston research layers hidden)
Centauri Location
The Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool provides important information by identifying communities that experience high burdens. These communities are considered disadvantaged. This information will be used for the Justice40 Initiative. The current version of the tool is 1…
2/5/24 Harris County Parks per precinct as specified by precinct contacts. Attribute data is best information available at time of publishing. Schema change and cleanup for use with cartegraph.
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Government Boundaries dataset include Houston City Limit boundary,City Council Districts, MUDs, Super Neighborhoods, Tax Incentive Reinvestment Zones (TIRZ), School Distircts, Lambert Grid, and zipcode.
[City of Houston] This date table captures calendar dates since 2014, flagged by fiscal periods, city holidays, and business days. It is updated as new city holidays are approved to ensure accuracy and consistency over time.
HCFCD City Limit Boundaries
GIS data files downloaded from HCAD (http://pdata.hcad.org) 7/24/2026.
City of Conroe City Limits.
City of Conroe ETJ.
GIS data files downloaded from HCAD (http://pdata.hcad.org) 7/29/24 GIS Parcel data is updated quarterly by HCAD GIS personnel and uploaded to repository. The last HCAD update was July 2024 next update April 2025
[Legacy Portal] Per City Ordinance, Sec. 26-372(e), any establishment wishing to use the public streets for valet pick-up/drop-off of vehicles must do so in a valet zone that is designated by...
[Legacy Portal] Commercial Vehicles that wish to use commercial loading zones or commercial vehicles that wish to use metered parking without payment need to be permitted with the City. See...
[Legacy Portal] Companies that wish to provide valet services must be registered with the City. See http://www.houstontx.gov/parking/valet.htm to learn more. See also for a related dataset:...
This feature class was digitized from legal descriptions by the City of Houston Planning and Development Department, GIS Services Division. The legal descriptions originate from the Planning and Development Department Public Policy Division; their legality is established with the…
[Planning and Development] The American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year and 5‑Year estimates for Houston, TX provides data on the average household size by renter and owner-occupied households. The ACS 5-Year estimates are based on surveys collected over a five-year period, which p…
[Department of Neighborhoods] The Department of Neighborhoods Inspections & Public Service (IPS) enforces Chapter 10 of the City of Houston Code of Ordinances. Violations under this section include:...
[City of Houston] A listing of the Business Areas (for accounting and budget purposes) recognized by the City of Houston. Business Areas usually overlap with the department of the same name - but...
[City Secretary's Office] Three campaign finance datasets are contained in this open data set. Candidates, officeholders, and special purpose committees for the City of Houston are required to self...
[Finance Department] The Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is a forward looking document outlining the City of Houston's infrastructure improvement strategy. This plan organizes projects by priority,...
City of Houston City Limits.
The city of Houston's complete community boundary.
2012 council districtsthese districts were created from harris county voting tabulation districts which are based off census blocks. this data does not always meet existing boundaries of city limits and parcels.if you have questions about any particuar district please reference o…
City of Houston City Council Districts.
[Finance Department] This dataset contains electricity chargebacks to all departments, by cost center, to all City Departments that pay for electricity through Revolving Fund 1002 (Central Service...
City of Houston ETJ.
[General Services Department] City of Houston facilities as maintained by the General Services Department. This dataset comes from William Whitehead
[Legacy Portal] This is the master list of the fees charged by the City of Houston for various services, licenses, permits, and other misc. items. Please be sure to visit the fee schedule app...
[Finance Department] This dataset includes various resources related to the City of Houston's approved budgets for multiple fiscal years. Please read the resource information for additional...
[Finance Department] Listing of Fund Centers used by the City of Houston. Fund Centers are used for budgeting and are groups inside of a business area (sometimes they overlap with personnel...
[Finance Department] A Listing of City of Houston Funds, along with their fund type and financial use. For most information about fund accounting, check out Wikipedia:...
[Houston Health Department] Includes violations found during inspections by the City of Houston Health and Human Services Department's Consumer Health Division at locations that serve food.
[Houston Health Department] List of last inspections carried out by the City of Houston Health and Human Services Department's Consumer Health Division at facilities that serve food by account (location).
[Houston Health Department] Inspections carried out by the City of Houston Health and Human Services Department's Consumer Health Division of food service handling at temporary events
[Houston Health Department] List of individual inspections carried out by the City of Houston Health and Human Services Department's Consumer Health Division at facilities that serve food. A restaurant or...
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