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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2013, state, Maine, Current Block State-based Shapefile

Metadata Updated: January 15, 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. 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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Dates

Metadata Date 2013-11-08
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) 2013 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Current Block State-based

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date 2013-11-08
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) 2013 (publication)
Responsible Party Unknown
Contact Email
Guid tl_2013_23_tabblock.shp.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., Distribution Liability: No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.
Bbox East Long -66.885444
Bbox North Lat 47.459854
Bbox South Lat 42.917126
Bbox West Long -71.083924
Collection Package Id 2b7afe19-f5db-4ff8-b6e7-19a99cc42e28
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id 56095d6e-d63c-463e-8db3-89c383e24a82
Harvest Source Id 4e0c99c3-6682-4a91-adff-2dd1f5f4fc2d
Harvest Source Title Current Block State-based
Licence
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-71.083924, 42.917126], [-66.885444, 42.917126], [-66.885444, 47.459854], [-71.083924, 47.459854], [-71.083924, 42.917126]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2012-06
Temporal Extent End 2013-05

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