United States Geological Survey
![An 1892 15-minute map of [[Mount Marcy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Mount_Marcy_New_York_USGS_topo_map_1892.jpg)
The sole scientific agency of the United States Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in NASA Ames Research Park in California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people.
The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Public Service". Provided by Wikipedia
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