Mapping, Data, and Analysis tools to help you visualize, find, acquire, analyze, display and understand water resource data.
Use this tool to find any water resource on any Water Atlas by its name (or alias), or to discover which Atlas pages have information about a particular topic (e.g., historic information, artificial reefs, or nutrient chemistry). Get Started ›
View current water quality conditions for lakes, rivers and bays utilizing new dashboard technology that features dynamic maps, filters and gauges. Get Started ›
This interactive tool lets you view mapped information about water resources as well as recreation, planning and infrastructure, habitats, and aerial imagery. You can also create and print your own custom maps. Get Started ›
Continuously-transmitting sampling sites can be accessed using this tool. View graphs of current data or download raw data. Ambient and historic sample sites can also be accessed by specifying a particular water resource. Get Started ›
This tool allows you to select water quality, hydrology, or rainfall information from any Atlas. Download raw data tables for use in your own analyses and reports, or let the Data Download tool do the graphing for you. Get Started ›
This versatile tool assists in visualizing spatial differences in coastal water quality, mapping color to sample values. View stored maps, compare months/parameters, or create a custom map by choosing parameter and time period. Get Started ›
Climate change will have a profound effect on coastal southwest Florida. Use this tool to see how habitats are predicted to shift over time, as sea levels rise. Get Started ›
Southwest Florida's tidal creeks are the vital hydrologic link between estuaries and their watersheds. These assessments of selected creeks characterize their vegetation, bathymetry and bottom hardness. Get Started ›
How has water quality changed over time? This page tracks the trends of water quality related to nutrient pollution. Get Started ›
View the geographic distribution and variability of rainfall amounts, access statistical summaries of rainfall in graphs and charts, and download the data for your own analysis. Get Started ›
Metadata identifies data providers, tells where, when, and how often data is collected, and reveals caveats related to its use. Access GIS metadata (spatial/maps), and sampling data (primarily water quality, hydrology, and weather). Get Started ›
What is the condition of our shorelines? Periodic surveys help inform resource managers in their efforts to restore and maintain vegetated estuary shorelines that support diverse fishery and invertebrate populations. Get Started ›
This diverse collection has research reports, management plans, assessments, conservation tips, website links, videos, and more. Find what you’re looking for with a combination of map selection, keyword search, and filtering options. Get Started ›
This quick-analysis tool estimates whether nutrient levels in each waterbody are meeting or exceeding regulatory limits. Get Started ›
Map services that are maintained by the Water Institute at USF which are not part of the Water Atlas website, but still contain information that may be valuable and useful to researchers, data providers, and citizens.
The Florida Atlas of Lakes is a statewide Atlas that contains all the LAKEWATCH water quality sampling data being collected within the state. Get Started ›
Map services created and hosted by our sponsors and other friends of the Water Atlas program.
Charlotte County's Interactive Mapping Gallery is comprised of various interactive maps created by specialists in many departments within the County. Get Started ›
Lee County's Maps and Apps gallery includes a variety of dynamic web mapping applications where you can look up government services and information such as your commissioner, waste pick-up days, and flood zone. The gallery includes their flagship GIS, LeeSpInS (Lee Spatial Information System), Get Started ›
Manatee County hosts many mapviewer applications including a property locator, a community services identifier and an aerial imagery download tool. Get Started ›
Polk County staff has developed interactive mapping applications (viewers) to provide residents and businesses access to a vast array of GIS data, including a Flood Zone Viewer and a map about Mosquito Control. Get Started ›
The Sarasota County GIS Team hosts many Interactive Mapping Applications, including maps showing high-risk flood zones, evacuation zones and school attendance zones. Get Started ›
View Hardee County's GIS data inventory using their online Land Resource Data viewer. Get Started ›
The Southwest Florida Water Management District has several interactive maps that allows users to view a multitude of data including soils, contours, surveys and permits. Get Started ›
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the lead agency for environmental management and stewardship, has many online maps available including a Land-Use Story Map and a map tracking Impaired Waters and TMDL's. Get Started ›
The Nature Conservancy's Coastal Resilience in the Gulf of Mexico offers natural resource managers and planners easy access to data on the current socio-economic condition and future threats of coastal hazards, as well as the role natural resources play in reducing community risk through conservation and restoration activities. Get Started ›
The purpose of this map viewer is to provide coastal resource managers and planners with a preliminary look at sea level rise and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses best-available, nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Get Started ›
Protecting Florida's pristine environment is the DEP's top priority and it has established a method for regulated entities to submit Public Notices of Pollution (PNP) for reportable releases. The DEP's PNP Finder is a mapping application that shows the location and description of all incidents of pollution reported in the last 30 days. Get Started ›
