Free Software Utilities
The Adobe Acrobat Reader  Many products (especially new Census Bureau products) are only available in Adobe .pdf format. You will need to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view them. The Reader works with your Browser and, once installed, opens automatically when you select a .pdf file. The Reader is free but .pdf downloads are relatively slow and demanding on your system. Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

ZIP Reader. Large data files on most web sites (including ours) are compressed. Download the shareware version of ZIP Reader, a free Windows® utility that allows users to open files that have been compressed.

WinZip. Another fine Zip Utility. You can download the evaluation version here.

ARC Explorer. A free, full-featured GIS viewer.

Find Texas Cities
Texas Town & City Search. Enter a name, or even a partial name, of a place in Texas (city or town) and this search engine will tell you what places and towns match the search string, what counties they are in, and the most recent population of each place per U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Note that the population shown is for that part of each place in the indicated county.

School Districts
Texas School District Locator. Search for Texas school disticts by district name, district number, or county name. The School District Locator will return both a list of the school districts matching your search criteria and an interactive map showing their locations and boundaries.

State-to-Vendor Payments
Vendor Payments. Designed to allow vendors to look up state payments on-line. There is a public information search available but a Social Security Number, Taxpayer Identification Number or Employer Identification Number is required.

Statistics and Data Tools
Univ. of Texas World Lecture Hall. Links to free online course materials (including statistics) from around the world.

Journal of Statistics Education Homepage. An electronic journal on post secondary teaching of statistics.

U. S. Census Bureau Access Tools. A variety of programs and links for extracting and analyzing data.

Search Engines
Google.  An easy to use and very comprehensive Web search engine.

CIP's Link Search. Search the County Information Project's database of links. This link searches the link description for links found on our department web pages.

SearchGov.com. Search for information from state governments, specific federal agencies and departments, etc. all at one time. It is just like running a search on one of the major search engines like Altavista, except that the results are limited to federal, state, and local government web sites. There is also a directory of links to federal agencies, states, etc.

USGovSearch. You can use this search engine to search government related web sites or a special collection of publications. If you search the special collection, the search engine will return links to article summaries. The articles or publications can then be purchased if you want them.

Zip Codes and More
Langenberg.com. Find zip codes, cities, area codes, counties, census and time zones, zip code maps. Determine the distance from: city to zip or zip to city, or discover surrounding zip codes.

ZIP Code Lookup. Allows you to look up all of the zip codes in a county.

Zip Codes. Use this form from the U. S. Postal Service to locate 5 or 9 digit zip codes.

Zip Info. Use their free Zip Code Lockup feature to locate area codes, congressional districts, latitude and longitude, etc. You can find out the five digit zip code by entering a city and state.