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    Los Alamos County 2010 Census Blocks

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2020

    The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.

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    Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date June 16, 2014
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2020
    Reference Date(s) June 6, 2011 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update unknown

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (NM RGIS)

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date June 16, 2014
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2020
    Reference Date(s) June 6, 2011 (publication)
    Responsible Party Earth Data Analysis Center (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid RGIS::ea2ac24f-6469-41d7-a5fa-fdb0fb8d121c::ISO-19115:2003
    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 -106.171656
    Bbox North Lat 35.973443
    Bbox South Lat 35.754274
    Bbox West Long -106.418855
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update unknown
    Harvest Object Id c576d05a-ccca-472b-b6e6-eab83891648b
    Harvest Source Id 3636b698-f3eb-4e93-a26e-b664cc785274
    Harvest Source Title New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (NM RGIS)
    Licence
    Metadata Language eng; USA
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress complete
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System Rio Arriba County (35039)
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2010-01-01
    Temporal Extent End 2010-07-01

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