States
The States dataset was released on October 01, 2026 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). This resource is a member of a series. 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) System (MTS). The MTS 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. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation. A data dictionary, or other source of attribute information, is accessible at https://doi.org/10.21949/1529079
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Open Data Catalog
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ArcGIS REST Services Directory Feature Server (WFS)
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Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P) NTAD Archive Collection
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| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
{ "fn": "U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division", "@type": "vcard:Contact", "hasEmail": "mailto:geo.geography@census.gov" } |
| describedByType | application/octet-stream |
| description | The States dataset was released on October 01, 2026 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). This resource is a member of a series. 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) System (MTS). The MTS 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. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation. A data dictionary, or other source of attribute information, is accessible at https://doi.org/10.21949/1529079 |
| distribution |
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| identifier | https://transtats.bts.gov/NTADmetadata/USDOT_BTS_NTAD_States.xml |
| isPartOf | National Transportation Atlas Database |
| issued | 1995-07-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[ "NTAD", "National Transportation Atlas Database", "National", "Transportation", "Atlas", "Database", "vector", "polygon", "Administrative", "Boundary", "Boundaries", "State", "States", "USA", "National" ] |
| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2026-11-10T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{ "name": "U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | 179.85968107125612,-14.601813,-179.231086,71.439786 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | States |
