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    • Collection Information for the Unified School Districts State-Based TIGER/Line Shapefiles, 2020

    Metadata Updated: October 12, 2021

    The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.

    School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from State officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to States and school districts.

    TIGER/Line Shapefiles include separate shapefiles for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The school district boundaries are those in effect for the 2019-2020 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2020.

    Access & Use Information

    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 June 1, 2020
    Metadata Created Date October 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date October 12, 2021
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from 2020 UNSD

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    URL for the TigerWeb Mapping Service

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Series
    Metadata Date June 1, 2020
    Metadata Created Date October 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date October 12, 2021
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication)
    Responsible Party U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (Publisher)
    Contact Email
    Guid collection_tl_2020_unsd.shp.iso.xml
    Access Constraints Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints:The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. 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 in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.
    Bbox East Long 179.859681
    Bbox North Lat 71.439786
    Bbox South Lat -14.601813
    Bbox West Long -179.231086
    Collection Metadata true
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Graphic Preview Description URL for the TigerWeb Mapping Service
    Graphic Preview File https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/WmsServer?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=Unified_School_Districts15496,Unified_School_Districts_Labels28837&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/svg+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=+47.7026,-117.5373,+47.7726,-117.3509&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
    Graphic Preview Type URL
    Harvest Object Id 2413f080-c655-45d8-84c0-161b4ec5decd
    Harvest Source Id b023043a-4315-4c89-bd9d-43fc91c14303
    Harvest Source Title 2020 UNSD
    Licence
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.231086, -14.601813], [179.859681, -14.601813], [179.859681, 71.439786], [-179.231086, 71.439786], [-179.231086, -14.601813]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2019-06
    Temporal Extent End 2020-05

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