Changelog

Review our newly added datasets as well as updates to existing layers.

08/13/2024

NEW LAYER: Natural Gas Pipelines

New nationwide natural gas pipelines layer, available in the state and USA regions packages.

08/07/2024

UPDATED: Substations

New release. Changes in various locations throughout the country.

UPDATED: Transmission Lines

New release. Changes in various locations throughout the country.

07/24/2024

UPDATED: Points of Interest

New monthly release with updated point locations and attributes.

07/02/2024

UPDATED: Builder Development

Major and Minor Residential Builders in the USA have been updated with latest parcel data.

06/29/2024

NEW LAYER: Abandoned Croplands

This dataset maps the annual history of cultivation 1986-2018 and identifies the areas that were cropped for at least 5 years and subsequently abandoned (i.e. ceased cultivation) anytime between 1991 and 2014.

UPDATED: IRA MSA/Non-MSA Energy Communities

Updated with 2024’s released data (June 7, 2024).

UPDATED: MSA Nonfarm Job Growth

Updated through April 2024 (latest data).

Updated through April 2024 (latest data).

UPDATED: MSA Unemployment

Updated through April 2024 (latest data).

UPDATED: Subdivisions

Builder subdivisions in the USA have been updated to the latest quarterly data.

06/24/2024

NEW LAYER: 30C Tax Credit Eligibility

To be eligible for the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property credit (30C credit), a federal income tax credit, your refueling property must be placed in service in an eligible census tract. This layer reflects currently available data for the two types of population census tracts relevant to the 30C credit and the time periods when property would need to be installed in order to qualify in either of these categories of population census tracts:

  1. Low-income community census tracts, i.e., population census tracts as described in the low-income community definition of section 45D(e), for purposes of the of the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC).
  2. Non-urban census tracts, i.e., population census tracts defined as “not an urban area” (or “non-urban area”) according to Treasury/IRS guidance.
UPDATED: Points of Interest

New monthly release with updated point locations and attributes.

UPDATED: Substations

New release. Highlighted changes include updated substations in Louisiana and Minnesota.

UPDATED: Transmission Lines

New release. Highlights include new and updated areas in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Missouri.

06/04/2024

UPDATED: Parcels

Updated to include all available updated 2024 Q1 data, nationwide.

05/22/2024

UPDATED: MSA Nonfarm Job Growth

Updated through March 2024 (latest data).

UPDATED: MSA Unemployment

Updated through March 2024 (latest data).

UPDATED: Electric Service Territories

New release. Highlights include new areas in Ohio.

UPDATED: Substations

New release. Highlighted changes include new substations in IN, KS, and NE.

UPDATED: Transmission Lines

New release. Highlighted changes include new transmission lines in GA, IN, KS, LA, NE, NM, OK, SC, and TX.

04/19/2024

NEW LAYER: Builder Development

Major and Minor Residential Builders in the USA. Major Builders symbolized with saturated colors, minor builders symbolized with pastels. Includes large parcels owned by builders or their holding companies as well as completed subdivisions symbolized by the builder.

NEW LAYER: Subdivisions

Builder subdivisions in the USA.

NEW LAYER: Business Hotspots

This layer uses Point of Interest data on recent Business Opening and Closing Dates to identify areas of overall new business growth or decline. In a given area, if recent business openings outpace recent business closures in a statistically significant fashion, the points will be symbolized in red. If business closures significantly outpace openings, they will be symbolized in blue. An area where closures and openings are relatively balanced or stable, the points will be symbolized in gray. Locations that recently closed but are in an area with many openings may be symbolized in red, and vice versa.

This layer makes it easy to visually identify areas of a metro that are experiencing new growth in terms of businesses. Established downtown cores tend to be shown in gray or blue, while new shopping areas accompanying housing growth tend are in red.

Each point represents a business that has either closed down or opened within the past two years, or in some cases, both. These points are a subset of the Points of Interest layer.

03/29/2024

UPDATED: Building Permits by Population

Updated to include estimates from 2022 data.

UPDATED: EPA Facilities

All EPA permits, reports, and information stored in the EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS). EPA Facilities dataset updated to the latest available data.

UPDATED: Land Cover Development Change Layer

Dataset updated to include 2023 changes to the landscape.

02/29/2024

NEW LAYER: Alternate Fuel Corridors

FHWA designates two EV corridor categories:

  1. EV Corridor Ready – A sufficient number of EV charging stations currently exist (minimum 50-mile intervals)
  2. EV Corridor Pending – An insufficient number of EV charging stations currently exist
NEW LAYER: Charging Stations

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) created a joint interim guidance DOE and DOT DAC map for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. This dataset is adjusted from the EV Charging Station Infrastructure map to include all charging stations in America, Tesla and non-Tesla, that are publicly accessible.

UPDATED: Difficult Development Areas (HUD)

Updated to 2024 (latest release).

UPDATED: Electric Service Territories

New release.

UPDATED: MSA Nonfarm Job Growth

Updated through December, 2023 (latest data)

UPDATED: MSA Unemployment

Updated through December, 2023 (latest data)

UPDATED: Points of Interest

New monthly release with updated point locations and attributes.

UPDATED: Qualified Census Tracts (HUD)

Updated to 2024 (latest release).

UPDATED: Substations

New release. Highlights include additional substations in TN Valley.

UPDATED: Transmission Lines

New release. Highlights include distribution lines primarily in CO, ME, and VT.

01/31/2024

UPDATED: ACS Age Breakdown

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: ACS Daytime Population

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: ACS Migration

Updated from 2021 to 2022 release data.

UPDATED: HUBZone Qualified Counties

Updated to the latest July 2023 release. SBA will not update qualified counties again until July 2028.

UPDATED: HUBZone Qualified Tracts

Updated to the latest July 2023 release. SBA will not update qualified tracts again until July 2028.