diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9515b19a65..37e18e2242b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ### Breaking changes
 - Added a new dbt_project.yml version format. This emits a deprecation warning currently, but support for the existing version will be removed in a future dbt version ([#2300](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2300), [#2312](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2312))
 - The `graph` object available in some dbt contexts now has an additional member `sources` (along side the existing `nodes`). Sources have been removed from `nodes` and added to `sources` instead ([#2312](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2312))
+- The 'location' field has been removed from bigquery catalogs ([#2382](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2382))
 
 ### Features
 - Added --fail-fast argument for dbt run and dbt test to fail on first test failure or runtime error. ([#1649](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/1649), [#2224](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2224))
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 - Fix "dbt deps" command so it respects the "--project-dir" arg if specified. ([#2338](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2338), [#2339](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2339))
 - On `run_cli` API calls that are passed `--vars` differing from the server's `--vars`, the RPC server rebuilds the manifest for that call. ([#2265](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2265), [#2363](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2363))
 - Fix "Object of type Decimal is not JSON serializable" error when BigQuery queries returned numeric types in nested data structures ([#2336](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2336), [#2348](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2348))
+- No longer query the information_schema.schemata view on bigquery ([#2320](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2320), [#2382](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2382))
 
 ### Under the hood
 - Added more tests for source inheritance ([#2264](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2264), [#2291](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2291))
diff --git a/plugins/bigquery/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/catalog.sql b/plugins/bigquery/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/catalog.sql
index d41b03604f4..ed64af88173 100644
--- a/plugins/bigquery/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/catalog.sql
+++ b/plugins/bigquery/dbt/include/bigquery/macros/catalog.sql
@@ -7,22 +7,7 @@
   {%- else -%}
 
   {%- set query -%}
-    with schemas as (
-
-        select
-          catalog_name as table_database,
-          schema_name as table_schema,
-          location
-
-        from {{ information_schema.replace(information_schema_view='SCHEMATA') }}
-        where (
-          {%- for schema in schemas -%}
-            upper(schema_name) = upper('{{ schema }}'){%- if not loop.last %} or {% endif -%}
-          {%- endfor -%}
-        )
-    ),
-
-    tables as (
+    with tables as (
         select
             project_id as table_database,
             dataset_id as table_schema,
@@ -43,7 +28,11 @@
             REGEXP_EXTRACT(table_id, '^.+([0-9]{8})$') as shard_name
 
         from {{ information_schema.replace(information_schema_view='__TABLES__') }}
-
+        where (
+          {%- for schema in schemas -%}
+            upper(dataset_id) = upper('{{ schema }}'){%- if not loop.last %} or {% endif -%}
+          {%- endfor -%}
+        )
     ),
 
     extracted as (
@@ -171,11 +160,6 @@
         coalesce(columns.column_type, '<unknown>') as column_type,
         columns.column_comment,
 
-        'Location' as `stats__location__label`,
-        location as `stats__location__value`,
-        'The geographic location of this table' as `stats__location__description`,
-        location is not null as `stats__location__include`,
-
         'Shard count' as `stats__date_shards__label`,
         table_shards.shard_count as `stats__date_shards__value`,
         'The number of date shards in this table' as `stats__date_shards__description`,
@@ -215,7 +199,6 @@
     -- sure that column metadata is picked up through the join. This will only
     -- return the column information for the "max" table in a date-sharded table set
     from unsharded_tables
-    left join schemas using(table_database, table_schema)
     left join columns using (relation_id)
     left join column_stats using (relation_id)
   {%- endset -%}
diff --git a/test/integration/029_docs_generate_tests/test_docs_generate.py b/test/integration/029_docs_generate_tests/test_docs_generate.py
index b6d3bfe1ce9..04521314553 100644
--- a/test/integration/029_docs_generate_tests/test_docs_generate.py
+++ b/test/integration/029_docs_generate_tests/test_docs_generate.py
@@ -253,22 +253,8 @@ def _snowflake_stats(self):
         }
 
     def _bigquery_stats(self, is_table, partition=None, cluster=None):
-        stats = {
-            'has_stats': {
-                'id': 'has_stats',
-                'label': 'Has Stats?',
-                'value': True,
-                'description': 'Indicates whether there are statistics for this table',
-                'include': False,
-            },
-            'location': {
-                'id': 'location',
-                'label': 'Location',
-                'value': 'US',
-                'description': 'The geographic location of this table',
-                'include': True,
-            }
-        }
+        stats = {}
+
         if is_table:
             stats.update({
                 'num_bytes': {
@@ -309,6 +295,15 @@ def _bigquery_stats(self, is_table, partition=None, cluster=None):
                 }
             })
 
+        has_stats = {
+            'id': 'has_stats',
+            'label': 'Has Stats?',
+            'value': bool(stats),
+            'description': 'Indicates whether there are statistics for this table',
+            'include': False,
+        }
+        stats['has_stats'] = has_stats
+
         return stats
 
     def _expected_catalog(self, id_type, text_type, time_type, view_type,