Resource Database

Censusscope.org allows the user to search national, census-based demographic maps. Categories include population change, poverty, home ownership, racial variations, segregation, aging communities, dominant generations, etc. The site also provides print-friendly charts and trends for these statistics.

Use Environmental Health WebMaps to learn about the environmental health of your community or state. The application displays environmental health information from federal and state agencies through an interactive map.

Gem State Prospector, sponsored by the Idaho Department of Commerce, is an interactive tool which provides statistics to help you perform market comparisons and choose the optimal location for potential businesses. You can search for stats on every Idaho city, county, and region. Each report contains an interactive map of the community and data on its labor force, wages, education levels, demographics, and consumer expenditures.

The Montana Association of Planners (MAP) is an association of professional planners, from public and private entities; planning board members and interested citizens. MAP strives to provide professional development opportunities and to put planning knowledge into the hands of citizens and elected officials.

Provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, The National Map is a free topographical map resource. Each quadrangle is constructed from key layers of geographic data ' orthoimagery, roads, geographic names, contours and hydrographic features. The National Map is a nationwide collection of integrated data from local, state, federal, and private sources.

This resource assists public officials, planners, citizen groups and other stakeholders in making their broadband project the best it can be. The core of the toolkit is a six-step approach to creating a roadmap, designed to work with projects of all sizes. It includes best practices identified by BTOP grantees, as well as nine case studies of how different states, counties, tribes, towns and non-government organizations implemented these best practices.

Easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.