USGS National Water-Use Data (Downloading ASCII data)

National Water-Use Data Archive

Water-resources subregion data sets by State (ASCII format)

From this page you can download water-use data sets from the National Water-Use Data Archive to your computer. This area contains water-resources subregion data files, by state, in "plain ASCII" format. Data files are also available as compressed files in UNIX format, or in MSDOS format.

To download any of the files listed below, just click on the 'hotlinked' file name.

Get help on data-file types and data definitions.

(NOTE!! When downloading, be sure to have your browser option set to 'download to your local disk' and not to the screen!)

        1990      1985                  1990      1985 
State   file      file         State    file      file 
-----  ------    ------        -----   ------    ------
 AK    ak90w4    ak85w4          AL    al90w4    al85w4
 AR    ar90w4    ar85w4          AZ    az90w4    az85w4
 CA    ca90w4    ca85w4          CO    co90w4    co85w4
 CT    ct90w4    ct85w4          DC    dc90w4    dc85w4
 DE    de90w4    de85w4          FL    fl90w4    fl85w4
 GA    ga90w4    ga85w4          HI    hi90w4    hi85w4
 IA    ia90w4    ia85w4          ID    id90w4    id85w4
 IL    il90w4    il85w4          IN    in90w4    in85w4
 KS    ks90w4    ks85w4          KY    ky90w4    ky85w4
 LA    la90w4    la85w4          MA    ma90w4    ma85w4
 MD    md90w4    md85w4          ME    me90w4    me85w4
 MI    mi90w4    mi85w4          MN    mn90w4    mn85w4
 MO    mo90w4    mo85w4          MS    ms90w4    ms85w4
 MT    mt90w4    mt85w4          NC    nc90w4    nc85w4
 ND    nd90w4    nd85w4          NE    ne90w4    ne85w4
 NH    nh90w4    nh85w4          NJ    nj90w4    nj85w4
 NM    nm90w4    nm85w4          NV    nv90w4    nv85w4
 NY    ny90w4    ny85w4          OH    oh90w4    oh85w4
 OK    ok90w4    ok85w4          OR    or90w4    or85w4
 PA    pa90w4    pa85w4          PR    pr90w4    pr85w4
 RI    ri90w4    ri85w4          SC    sc90w4    sc85w4
 SD    sd90w4    sd85w4          TN    tn90w4    tn85w4
 TX    tx90w4    tx85w4          UT    ut90w4    ut85w4
 VA    va90w4    va85w4          VI    vi90w4    vi85w4
 VT    vt90w4    vt85w4          WA    wa90w4    wa85w4
 WI    wi90w4    wi85w4          WV    wv90w4    wv85w4
 WY    wy90w4    wy85w4  

Be sure to download the water-use data dictionary also! (You'll only need it 
once - it describes all of USGS's water-use data files and data elements).

USGS Water Use in the United States

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