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TIGER/Line Shapefile, Current, State, Pennsylvania, 2020 Census Voting District (VTD)

Metadata Updated: December 15, 2023

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 adn 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. Voting district is the generic name for geographic entities such as precincts, wards, and election districts established by State governments for the purpose of conducting elections. States participating in the 2020 redistricting program as part of Public Law 94-171 (1975) provided the Census Bureau with boundaries, codes, and names for their VTDs. Voting districts do not exist for all states since some states did not participate in the program or chose not to submit boundaries for some of, or their entire, state. Each VTD is identified by a 1- to 6-character alphanumeric census code that is unique within county. The code "ZZZZZZ" identifies a portion of the county for which no VTDs were identified.

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Dates

Metadata Date October 28, 2022
Metadata Created Date December 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 15, 2023
Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication), 2020-05 (creation), 2020-05 (lastUpdate)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Current NGDA Standalones

Graphic Preview

URL for the TIGERWeb Mapping Service

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date October 28, 2022
Metadata Created Date December 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 15, 2023
Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication), 2020-05 (creation), 2020-05 (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_2020_42_vtd20.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 -74.689561
Bbox North Lat 42.516072
Bbox South Lat 39.719799
Bbox West Long -80.519851
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_Census2020/MapServer/WmsServer?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=Voting_Districts56637,Voting_Districts_Labels20888&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/png+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=+38.8810,-77.0401,+38.9008,-77.0035&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
Graphic Preview Type URL
Harvest Object Id 0365058d-676c-4285-80f3-03ef47e00bdb
Harvest Source Id 02d50b34-1cc0-456c-9791-b503aacfa729
Harvest Source Title Current NGDA Standalones
Licence
Lineage
Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-80.519851, 39.719799], [-74.689561, 39.719799], [-74.689561, 42.516072], [-80.519851, 42.516072], [-80.519851, 39.719799]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2019-06
Temporal Extent End 2020-05

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