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White Oak Flood Hazard Zone
MAAPNext sample Data.
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)
MAAPNext sample Data.
MAAPNext sample data.
2015-2016 wildfires and tornadoes
2015-2016 wildfires and tornadoes
eBird trends data. Each 27km x 27km region is represented by a circle polygon scaled by the relative abundance. For more info, please check https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/faq
Customer power outages hours in Texas during the Winter Storm Uri.
TCEQ collects, processes, and publishes the air emission events from industries across Texas in a database called “the Air Emission Event Report Database”...
Public water systems under boil water notice by county during and immediately after winter storm Uri in February 2021. Raw data downloaded from TCEQ between...
The purpose for the ZIP code layer is to make a more accurate ZIP code polygon layer for Harris County
Zip Codes
zipcode
Houston_Elevation
[City of Houston] This dataset provides the zip codes in the region. One resource provides a shapefile of the zip codes polygons from the USPS while another resource provides a shapefile of the...
Found Houston or Harris County open data we don't list? A portal, a map service, a spreadsheet on an agency page, a research dataset? Tell us where it is. Reviewed suggestions are added to the catalog for everyone.