Open datasets behind the maps.

Federal enforcement and compliance history for permitted facilities, joinable to TCEQ permits via FRS ID or lat/long.

Publisher

U.S. EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

Use case

Compliance Gap input — pairs with TCEQ permits to surface under-enforced regulated activity.

Pending and recently-closed permit applications across all TCEQ program areas (APO, Air Quality, Water Quality, PWS, IHWHL, MSW, Water Rights, UIC, Water Districts), including SOAH docket cross-reference.

Publisher

TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk

Use case

Active Protest Density input — case metadata and SOAH-referral signal per pending permit.

Public comments, hearing requests, and public-meeting requests filed against pending TCEQ permit applications.

Publisher

TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk

Use case

Active Protest Density input — counts of community filings per pending permit. PII guardrail: do not surface individual filer names; aggregate counts and named filing orgs only.

Issuer-level debt report index for local governments with debt report links and entity types.

Publisher

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Use case

Debt-report discovery and county fiscal-capacity expansion path.

Bond Review Board debt-outstanding experience for local government issuers with broader debt context and caveats.

Publisher

Texas Bond Review Board

Use case

Future issuer drill-through for municipal debt analysis.

Local bond election results for issuers including amount, purpose, proposition, votes, and result.

Publisher

Texas Bond Review Board

Use case

Debt authorization context and civic decision trail.

Block-group-level demographic and environmental burden indicators (percentile rankings, state-relative).

Publisher

U.S. EPA

Use case

EJ Burden Overlap input — joins demographic burden percentiles to TCEQ permit-buffer density.

American Community Survey 5-year estimates for population, race/ethnicity, income, and age by county and block group.

Publisher

U.S. Census Bureau

Use case

Population denominators and demographic context for DWRS, EJ overlay, and per-capita normalization.

Stormwater and wastewater permit records with county and location fields for regulated facilities.

Publisher

Office of Water

Use case

Environmental burden and regulated-facility density by county.

Stormwater and wastewater general permits (MS4 Phase II, Multi-Sector, Concrete, Aquaculture, Oil & Gas Extraction, Petroleum Bulk Stations, Quarries, Water Treatment Plants, Pesticides, etc.).

Publisher

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — Water Quality Division

Use case

General-permit density and oil-and-gas-extraction stormwater coverage by county.

Reported sanitary sewer overflow incidents with location county, regulated entity, material, volume, cause, and dates.

Publisher

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Use case

Sewer overflow frequency and volume as a county-level water-burden signal.

Segment and reservoir viewer for Texas surface-water quality status, including impairment / use-support context for water bodies.

Publisher

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Use case

Surface-water burden-indicator overlay and probabilistic environmental-burden inference input; impaired segments are a legal-use-support warning, not a direct harm measure.

Public Water System health-based and monitoring violations from the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System.

Publisher

U.S. EPA Office of Water

Use case

Drinking Water Risk Score input — per-PWS violation severity, recency, population served.

Statewide major aquifer polygons published by TWDB as GIS downloads.

Publisher

Texas Water Development Board

Use case

Hydrologic context layer for groundwater source regions, aquifer adjacency, and water-risk storytelling.

Statewide major river basin polygons published by TWDB as GIS downloads.

Publisher

Texas Water Development Board

Use case

Watershed and basin overlays for county, facility, and Public Water System context.

Texas hydrologic unit (HUC 8) polygons from the TWDB GIS download catalog.

Publisher

Texas Water Development Board

Use case

Sub-basin hydrology joins and watershed-oriented aggregation for Atlas TX overlays.

County-level tax/remittance returns by tax type, period, and taxpayer count.

Publisher

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Use case

Fiscal activity context for county comparison.

Jurisdiction-level sales tax rate changes and effective dates.

Publisher

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Use case

Local tax-rate context and change tracking.

Water district registry with county, district type, status, and organization details.

Publisher

Office of Water

Use case

Public-systems and water-governance coverage by county.

Per-PWS facility records (storage tanks, wells, treatment plants, pumps, distribution-system entries) from SDWIS WATER_SYSTEM_FACILITY. Atlas committed snapshot is filtered to active storage facilities (FACILITY_TYPE_CODE=ST).

Publisher

U.S. EPA Office of Water

Use case

Surface water-tower / ground-storage / reservoir inventory under each county's PWS list. Joined by pwsid; no lat/lon in this table.

County-level completed child abuse and neglect investigations across fiscal years.

Publisher

TX DFPS Data and Decision Support

Use case

Social strain and vulnerability trend proxy by county.