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2019 Cartographic Boundary File KML, Current Block Group for West Virginia, 1:500,000

Metadata Updated: January 15, 2021

The 2019 cartographic boundary KMLs are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files.

Block Groups (BGs) are clusters of blocks within the same census tract. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tracts. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, tabulation blocks numbered 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within census tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. BGs coded 0 are intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. A BG usually covers a contiguous area but never crosses county or census tract boundaries. They may, however, cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas.

The generalized BG boundaries in this release are based on those that were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date August 4, 2020
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) August 4, 2020 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from 2019cb_bgkml

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date August 4, 2020
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) August 4, 2020 (publication)
Responsible Party Unknown
Contact Email
Guid cb_2019_54_bg_500k.kml.iso.xml
Access Constraints Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints:The intended display scale for this file is 1:500,000. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than 1:500,000. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information is for visual display at appropriate small scales only. Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geographic analysis including area or perimeter calculation. Files should not be used for geocoding addresses. Files should not be used for determining precise geographic area relationships.
Bbox East Long -77.719519
Bbox North Lat 40.638801
Bbox South Lat 37.201483
Bbox West Long -82.644739
Collection Package Id 1d919239-d7a3-46ab-b5af-a7f2180f4f0e
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id 41ac4c9f-40ef-475a-9902-6550a58ee450
Harvest Source Id 9b01e540-b61f-437a-adbc-bd508c3a47a7
Harvest Source Title 2019cb_bgkml
Licence
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-82.644739, 37.201483], [-77.719519, 37.201483], [-77.719519, 40.638801], [-82.644739, 40.638801], [-82.644739, 37.201483]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3395
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2020-05
Temporal Extent End 2020-05

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