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United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Agency overview
Formed
March 3, 1879; 145 years ago (1879-03-03) (as Geological Survey)
Jurisdiction
United States
Headquarters
John W. Powell National Center Reston, Virginia, U.S. 38°56′49″N77°22′03″W / 38.9470°N 77.3675°W / 38.9470; -77.3675
Employees
8,670 (2009)
Annual budget
$1.497 billion (FY2023)[1]
Agency executive
Dave Applegate, Director
Parent agency
United States Department of the Interior
Website
www.usgs.gov
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of extraterrestrial planets and moons based on data from U.S. space probes.
The sole scientific agency of the United States Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility.[2] It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in Menlo Park, California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people.[3]
The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world".[4][5] The agency's previous slogan, adopted on its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Public Service".[6]
^H.R. 2617
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^"Monterey Aquarium's McNutt new USGS Director". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. October 23, 2009. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
^FY 1997 Annual Financial Report Archived September 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. Geological Survey.
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