Topography 

Maps showing canyons, plains, mountains, and other features resulting from erosion, deposition, mountain building, glaciation, river, and other processes.   Often show rivers, roads, railroads, towns, land ownership, and other features.

Geology 

Maps showing surface or underlying rock type, their structure, and their origin.  May also show minerals, mining areas, and features such as fault lines, plate boundaries, rivers, and topography.  

Image

Maps showing physical and cultural features on the land using natural color, black and white, color infrared, radar, and other types of images from satellites and aircraft.

Culture and History 

Maps showing Native American Cultural Regions, physical and cultural landscape on historical editions of USGS topographic maps, the growth of the United States, historical trails and explorers, and other themes.

National Parks and Monuments

Maps showing topographic and thematic maps of selected National Parks.

International and World

Maps of the world, regions, and countries outside of the USA.

Water Resources

Maps showing watersheds, floods, water quality, coastal features, aquifers, and other water-related issues and features.

Planetary

Maps showing geology, shaded relief, and other themes in the solar system.

Environmental

Maps showing environmental themes and ecoregions.  

Land Status and Land Cover

Maps showing the land status, land use, and land cover of the USA and selected areas of the world. 

Energy and Physics

Maps showing the distribution and assessment of geothermal, oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, other energy sources, geomagnetism, and the Earth's gravity.

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides

Maps showing the distribution of earthquake epicenters, volcanoes, and landslides across the USA and around the world.