overview
ERS maps display data in a spatial perspective. Mapping formats range from snapshot images to interactive mapping programs. Browse our gallery of images by subject or use our interactive programs to generate maps of ERS data sets for a geographic area you select. Check back as we expand these data features.

rural indicators:

• Rural Indicators Map Machine - a program incorporating an array of rural indicators: natural amenities, urban influence, commuting areas, employment, income, unemployment, and population changes. Users can select a State, zoom to a specific county, and display the latest data.

food assistance:

• Summer Food Service Program Map Machine - mapping utility integrates Census data, SFSP participation records, and Common Core Data to display program sponsors and sites in relation to concentrated areas of child poverty. Users can download underlying data and display maps for the Nation, States, counties, or neighborhoods; and view different levels of geographic data.

• Food Stamp Program Map Machine - mapping utility that displays program participation and benefit levels down to the county level. Users can view per capita participation, per capita benefits, yearly changes, and more for the county, State, or Nation. Zoom in to a region and display a map showing county program participation changes over time. Underlying data are available to download.

resources and environment:

• Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators Database and Mapping Tool - an interactive mapping and database access tool that will eventually access numerous agricultural resources and environmental indicators data sets. This tool currently accesses all tables and items from the 1987, 1992, and 1997 Census of Agriculture data. Users can select a table and data item to map, view as a table, or download. Users can also map data to cropland areas, zoom in, zoom out, and identify a specific county.

map images displaying ERS data

Farm Resource Regions - regions depicting geographic specialization in production of U.S. farm commodities. This regional structure incorporates new capabilities and standards in displaying data drawn from the old Farm Production Regions, a cluster analysis of U.S. farm characteristics, the USDA Land Resource Regions, and National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Crop Reporting Districts.

Rural America at a Glance - a wide array of economic and social indicators (rural income, poverty, and program participation) displayed in easy-to-read maps (and charts).

Map Gallery - a broad range of images arranged by subject: agricultural chemicals and production technology, conservation and environmental policies, crop distributions, general, global climate change, global resources, irrigation and water use, and land use.

Thumbnail views of ERS maps - previews of images, with links.