Health outcomes
Published statistics on pregnancy, birth and infant outcomes, released by public health agencies at state and county level.
Public record · United States
Project Theodore — Infant & Environmental Health Atlas. Every community deserves to see what the public record already says.
One map for published health statistics and public environmental records — by place, by year, with every source named. Start anywhere in the country and follow the record.
Plate 01 · County surveyIllustrative
- 3,200+
- US counties
- 50 states
- + DC covered
- 300k+
- public records mapped
- Every layer
- source-labelled
Area-level data only. Patterns here raise questions; they never prove cause.
Why this exists
The information already exists, but it is scattered: health statistics sit in one agency's release, cleanup sites in another's register, wells and permits in a third, each with its own format, period and caveats. Putting them in one place, honestly labelled, lets people ask better questions of the public record — and see plainly where that record stops.
Environmental records
Public registers of cleanup sites, industrial facilities, wells, mines, permits and reported releases.
Time and place
The same measure across years and across the country, so a place can be read in its own context.
Sources and resources
Every layer carries its source and release stage, alongside a labelled library of documentation and research.
Start with a place. Follow the public record.
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Start with a place
Search a state or county, or move across the national view.
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Choose what to look at
Pick a published health measure, a period, and the record layers you want visible.
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Read the figure
See what the number means, how certain it is, and how it compares nationally.
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Follow the record
Open the public records nearby, check their sources, and find local resources.
United States
Published area-level rates, one colour band per range.
What the map can show
What agencies have published for a place
Area-level rates and counts exactly as their source released them, with the period and version shown.
Where documented records sit
Locations and identifiers of sites and facilities that appear in public federal and state registers.
How a place compares
A county next to its state and the national figure, with the uncertainty around small numbers made visible.
How things changed over time
The same measure across the years each source actually covers — no gaps quietly filled in.
What is on the map right now
Published counts, not promises. Every layer below is live in the Atlas today, with its publisher, period and release stage attached. Layers still being verified are listed as pending on the Sources page.
- 249,044
- FracFocus disclosures
- 242,000+
- Oil & gas wells
- 63,822
- EPA FRS / TRI facilities
- 26,319
- MSHA mines
- 22,314
- RCRA hazardous-waste handlers
- 17,337
- Superfund / NPL sites
- 1,666
- Data-centre projects
- 1,700
- Waste & plastics facilities
Hydraulic-fracturing chemical disclosures, per well and date
State and federal well registers with spud and status where published
Regulated and reporting industrial facilities
Coal and mineral operations with status and operator
Treatment, storage, disposal and generator records
EPA SEMS cleanup records
FracTracker tracker: operator, megawatts, build status
Resin plants, landfills, recycling and transfer sites
What you can do with it
Look up your county
Open any of the 3,200+ counties and read its published health rate beside every documented facility, well and cleanup site inside it.
Compare places
Set one county against its neighbours or the national reference rate, with confidence intervals and suppression rules shown.
Move through time
Play a measure across the published years to see whether a pattern is stable, rising or an artefact of a single small-count year.
Ask the Atlas
Ask a plain question and get an answer written like a careful epidemiologist — with the map moved to the place being discussed.
Check the evidence
Every figure carries its publisher, period and release stage, and links to the study, register or guidance behind it.
Find people nearby
Each state page lists health departments, environmental agencies and community organisations working in that state.
What it cannot show
These are rules the Atlas is built around, not warnings added afterwards.
- It cannot show that anything here caused anything else. Patterns across places are a starting point for research, not a finding.
- It cannot describe any individual. Every figure is an area-level statistic; no person, family, address or record is shown or reconstructed.
- It cannot estimate anyone's exposure. Living inside a county says nothing about what any household breathed, drank or touched.
- It cannot fill in what a source withheld. Where a value is suppressed for small counts, it stays unpublished here.
For people who need it
Families
See what the public record says about your area, in plain language, without alarm and without guesswork.
Schools and students
A calm, source-labelled way to learn how public health and environmental data are recorded and read.
Researchers
Reproducible views, documented methods, confounder-aware tools and exportable provenance.
Journalists
Traceable figures with their source, period and limitations attached, ready to verify before you publish.
Public-health teams
Compare places, review coverage gaps and see which records exist for the areas you serve.
Library and support
Documentation, research and support routes, each labelled by what kind of source it is. Journalism, books and podcasts are kept as context — they are never used as numbers on the map.
Infant sleep and SUID/SIDS
Official guidance and definitions
Infant mortality and birth outcomes
How the measures are defined
Pregnancy and maternal health
Context from public agencies
Birth defects
Surveillance programmes and reviews
Air quality
Monitoring, standards and research
Drinking water
Systems, testing and contamination
Fracking, oil and gas
Registers, studies and investigations
Reading map data responsibly
Limits, suppression and uncertainty
Grief and community support
Support routes, not data
If you are worried about your family, start with your clinician and your state or local health department; they can act on concerns about drinking water, air quality or a specific site. This Atlas holds no information about you and cannot assess anyone's risk.
Directory
People you can actually call.
Community organizations, legal advocates and agencies in all 50 states and DC working on fracking and drilling, coal and mining, refineries, waste sites, drinking water and air quality — plus national hotlines and family support.
“One candle can light ten thousand.”
Health & Environment Atlas is built in the belief that clearer public information can help communities ask better questions, find trusted resources, and create change together.