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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2016, Series Information for the Current County Subdivision 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.

County subdivisions are the primary divisions of counties and their equivalent entities for the reporting of Census Bureau data. They include legally-recognized minor civil divisions (MCDs) and statistical census county divisions (CCDs), and unorganized territories. For the 2010 Census, the MCDs are the primary governmental and/or administrative divisions of counties in 29 States and Puerto Rico; Tennessee changed from having CCDs for Census 2000 to having MCDs for the 2010 Census. In MCD States where no MCD exists or is not defined, the Census Bureau creates statistical unorganized territories to complete coverage. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas are covered by county subdivisions. The boundaries of most legal MCDs are as of January 1, 2015, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).

The boundaries of all CCDs, delineated in 20 states, are those as reported as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.

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Dates

Metadata Date September 16, 2019
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) 2016 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from 2016_cousub

Graphic Preview

URL for the TigerWeb Web Mapping Service

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Series
Metadata Date September 16, 2019
Metadata Created Date January 15, 2021
Metadata Updated Date January 15, 2021
Reference Date(s) 2016 (publication)
Responsible Party Unknown
Contact Email
Guid SeriesCollection_tl_2016_cousub.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 71.441059
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 Web Mapping Service
Graphic Preview File https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2016/MapServer/WMSServer ?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=County Subdivisions,County Subdivisions Labels&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/svg+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=43.628449,-71.934903,43.706635,-71.346863&WIDTH=891&HEIGHT=751
Graphic Preview Type URL for the TigerWeb Web Mapping Service
Harvest Object Id a9095ad6-5cbb-420c-a729-f6018b7f4716
Harvest Source Id cb88be3d-f515-46ee-a4db-3fad30536466
Harvest Source Title 2016_cousub
Licence
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True

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