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Allegheny County Census Block Groups 2016

Metadata Updated: May 14, 2023

This is an Allegheny County extract of the 2016 US Census Block Groups downloaded from the following website:  https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html. If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category:  Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization:  Allegheny County

Department:  Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

Temporal Coverage:  2016

Data Notes: 

Coordinate System:  GCS_North_American_1983

Development Notes:  none

Other: none

Related Document(s):  Data Dictionary (https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2016/TGRSHP2016_TechDoc_Ch3.pdf)

Frequency - Data Change:  2016 data

Frequency - Publishing:  one-time

Data Steward Name:  See https://www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html for more information.

Data Steward Email: See https://www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html for more information.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 24, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from WPRDC data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 24, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2023
Publisher Allegheny County
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2023-05-13T17:27:37.025453
Public Access Level public
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Harvest Source Title WPRDC data.json
Homepage URL http://openac-alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/2c059d0501e5479ca90242a6d716d24c_0
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