This website shows information about available public borehole and related subsurface resource data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and various state geological surveys, including links to access the original log or analytical data and measurements.
A Borehole is defined as a narrow hole drilled to establish the nature of, sample, test, or monitor soil, bedrock or contained fluids and gases or for abstraction of water or minerals, and/or a virtual representation of such (Gaaloul and others, 2018).
Please email us your questions, comments, or suggestions - NIBI@usgs.gov
Terry, D.E., Guevara, Peter, Arthur, D.K., Bubiy, A.V., and Pedraza, D.E., 2023, National Index of Borehole Information: U.S. Geological Survey web application, https://webapps.usgs.gov/nibi/.
Gaaloul, Noureddine, Eslamian, Saeid, and Ostad-Ali-Askari, Kaveh, 2018, Boreholes in Bobrowsky, P.T. and Marker, B., eds., Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology: Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, Germany, accessed September 28, 2023, at https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_31.