12 Facts About USGS

The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility.

USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency.

The USGS has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California.

Since 2012, the USGS science focus is directed at topical "Mission Areas" that have continued to evolve iteratively over time.

USGS operates and organizes within a number of specific science programs, facilities, and other organizational units:.

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The USGS informs authorities, emergency responders, the media, and the public, both domestic and worldwide, about significant earthquakes.

USGS operates the streamgaging network for the United States, with over 7400 streamgages.

USGS operates a number of water related programs, notably the National Streamflow Information Program and National Water-Quality Assessment Program.

USGS is investigating collaboration with the social networking site Twitter to allow for more rapid construction of ShakeMaps.

In 2008 the USGS abandoned traditional methods of surveying, revising, and updating topographic maps based on aerial photography and field checks.

USGS researchers publish the results of their science in a variety of ways, including peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as in one of a variety of USGS Report Series that include preliminary results, maps, data, and final results.

Clarence King, the first director of USGS, assembled the new organization from disparate regional survey agencies.