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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2022, Nation, U.S., County And Equivalent Entities

Metadata Updated: January 27, 2024

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. The primary legal divisions of most states are termed counties. In Louisiana, these divisions are known as parishes. In Alaska, which has no counties, the equivalent entities are the organized boroughs, city and boroughs, municipalities, and for the unorganized area, census areas. The latter are delineated cooperatively for statistical purposes by the State of Alaska and the Census Bureau. In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation. The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions, and each area is considered an equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation. The Census Bureau treats the following entities as equivalents of counties for purposes of data presentation: Municipios in Puerto Rico, Districts and Islands in American Samoa, Municipalities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas is covered by counties or equivalent entities. The boundaries for counties and equivalent entities are mostly as of January 1, 2022, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).

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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 December 4, 2023
Metadata Created Date January 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2022 (publication), 2022-08 (creation), 2022-08 (lastUpdate)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Archived NGDA Standalones

Graphic Preview

URL for the TIGERWeb Mapping Service

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date December 4, 2023
Metadata Created Date January 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2022 (publication), 2022-08 (creation), 2022-08 (lastUpdate)
Responsible Party U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid tl_2022_us_county.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 146.154418
Bbox North Lat 71.439786
Bbox South Lat -14.601813
Bbox West Long -178.443593
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=Counties,Counties_Labels19364&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/png+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=+37.9649,-85.7590,+38.2928,-85.0133&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
Graphic Preview Type URL
Harvest Object Id 50527ef0-4075-4fd8-9e8c-4a6a8d323439
Harvest Source Id 1f2212ed-f1f8-4ea1-b928-e306f77f2247
Harvest Source Title Archived NGDA Standalones
Licence
Lineage
Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-178.443593, -14.601813], [146.154418, -14.601813], [146.154418, 71.439786], [-178.443593, 71.439786], [-178.443593, -14.601813]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2021-06
Temporal Extent End 2022-08

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