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Category: Boundaries

USGS National Boundary Dataset / Governmental Units (The National Map)

U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program (The National Map)

License: Public domain
Commercial: Yes
Format: Several, GeoPackage
Coverage: United States and territories

Last updated: Added to findgis 31 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Irregular

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Very large national geodatabase and GeoPackage files plus per-state files. Separate from Census TIGER/Line boundaries.

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Publisher

U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program (The National Map)

License

Commercial use: Yes
Attribution required: No
Modification allowed: See publisher
Redistribution allowed: See publisher
Share-alike: No

U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. 105); public domain. The item metadata use constraint reads "None" (acknowledgment of USGS appreciated). USGS-authored information is in the public domain; no commercial-use restriction. The USGS Supporting Themes page (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/national-geospatial-program/supporting-themes, read 31 Oct 2026) says the National Transportation, Structures and Boundary Datasets "are available in the public domain."License text

Region

United StatesUS

Type

Vector

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GovernmentUnits_National_GDB.zip (Several, 2570.0 MB)GovernmentUnits_National_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 2605.6 MB)GOVTUNIT_Alabama_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 37.2 MB)GOVTUNIT_Alaska_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 204.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_American_Samoa_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 265 KB)GOVTUNIT_Arizona_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 79.0 MB)GOVTUNIT_Arkansas_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 47.0 MB)GOVTUNIT_California_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 138.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_Colorado_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 84.6 MB)GOVTUNIT_Commonwealth_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 123 KB)GOVTUNIT_Connecticut_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 3.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_Delaware_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 1.9 MB)GOVTUNIT_District_of_Columbia_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 1.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_Florida_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 52.2 MB)GOVTUNIT_Georgia_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 34.0 MB)GOVTUNIT_Guam_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 932 KB)GOVTUNIT_Hawaii_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 2.9 MB)GOVTUNIT_Idaho_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 75.0 MB)GOVTUNIT_Illinois_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 37.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_Indiana_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 20.3 MB)GOVTUNIT_Iowa_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 48.3 MB)GOVTUNIT_Kansas_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 34.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Kentucky_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 25.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Louisiana_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 31.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Maine_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 10.7 MB)GOVTUNIT_Maryland_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 35.9 MB)GOVTUNIT_Massachusetts_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 6.7 MB)GOVTUNIT_Michigan_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 40.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Minnesota_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 61.1 MB)GOVTUNIT_Mississippi_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 34.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Missouri_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 36.1 MB)GOVTUNIT_Montana_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 106.9 MB)GOVTUNIT_Nebraska_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 29.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_Nevada_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 73.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_New_Hampshire_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 5.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_New_Jersey_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 15.7 MB)GOVTUNIT_New_Mexico_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 69.1 MB)GOVTUNIT_New_York_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 14.2 MB)GOVTUNIT_North_Carolina_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 51.0 MB)GOVTUNIT_North_Dakota_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 43.6 MB)GOVTUNIT_Ohio_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 32.7 MB)GOVTUNIT_Oklahoma_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 46.2 MB)GOVTUNIT_Oregon_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 85.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_Pennsylvania_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 24.6 MB)GOVTUNIT_Puerto_Rico_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 7.8 MB)GOVTUNIT_Rhode_Island_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 1.3 MB)GOVTUNIT_South_Carolina_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 22.7 MB)GOVTUNIT_South_Dakota_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 51.2 MB)GOVTUNIT_Tennessee_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 41.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_Texas_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 55.1 MB)GOVTUNIT_United_States_Virgin_Islands_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 194 KB)GOVTUNIT_Utah_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 61.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_Vermont_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 4.3 MB)GOVTUNIT_Virginia_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 72.1 MB)GOVTUNIT_Washington_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 65.5 MB)GOVTUNIT_West_Virginia_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 16.3 MB)GOVTUNIT_Wisconsin_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 58.4 MB)GOVTUNIT_Wyoming_State_GPKG.zip (GeoPackage, 68.5 MB)

Service

ArcGIShttps://carto.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/govunits/MapServer

Extent

-179.231-14.602179.8671.44West, south, east, north. Data extent.

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