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Have you ever wondered what the bottom of Lake Tahoe looks like?  How California looks from space? Our map section will answer these and many more questions. Check back often for new maps!

Maps of current fires and incident information can be found in the Fire News section.

Most of these files are very large, they do take time to download.

• New Orleans before and after hurricane Katrina (NASA)

• Decreased Clarity in Lake Tahoe's Water

• CDF Fire Threat Map of California (pdf)

• Nevada County Natural Resources Report

• Late Season Fires in California 2002

• USGS Earthquake Hazard Program    Current earthquake activity in Northern California, maps, links and a special interest section where you report if you felt an earthquake.

• Land and Sea Temperatures Live Satellite (UW Madison)

• Lake Tahoe (data provided by the Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse)

• California map with county borders from NGDC/NOAA

• California maps in PDF format
  National Parks map

• Spectacular  3-D image of the hole in the ozone layer by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

• Wetland and Riparian classification maps

• Seismic monitor map. Learn about the latest seismic events! Courtesy of IRIS

• The National Atlas of the USA, courtesy of USGS. Different map  layers and a wealth of information! Great starting point for research.

• Geographic Names Information System, USGS. Contains information about almost 2 million! physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. You have access to other Information Systems too, links to many other sites.

• Sierra Nevada view from space. Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences,  NASA-Johnson Space Center

• Sierra Nevada Mountains and Lake Tahoe, California, U.S.A. June 1991. Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences,  NASA-Johnson Space Center

• Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.A. October 1993. Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center

• The agricultural fields near Yuba City and Sutter Buttes within the Sacramento Valley are captured in this low-oblique, east-looking photograph.Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center

• Nestled in a basin between the high, snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west and the lower, barren Excelsior Mountains to the east, Mono Lake is captured in this near-vertical photograph.Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center

• This south-southwest-looking, low-oblique photograph reveals a dry Lake Owens, north and south of which is seen the Owens River, 120 miles (195 kilometers) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada southeast of Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center.

• Sacramento, the capital of California and the western terminus of the Pony Express in the late 1850s and early 1860s, is visible in this near-vertical photograph. Courtesy of the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center.

If you are looking for a specific map of a fire, please go to the FireArchive and select the incident.

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