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    • Virginia City Boundary, Storey County, 2015, U.S. Census Bureau

    Metadata Updated: February 25, 2025

    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 TIGER/Line shapefiles include both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated places or CDPs (statistical entities).

    An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a state, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located.

    The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in partnership with state, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size requirement for CDPs is that they must contain some housing and population.

    The boundaries of all incorporated places are as of January 1, 2013 as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).

    The boundaries of all CDPs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.

    NDEP extracted the Virginia City Census-Designated Place boundary polygon from the TIGER/Line database in 2020.

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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 August 12, 2020
    Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
    Reference Date(s) January 1, 2015 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date August 12, 2020
    Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
    Reference Date(s) January 1, 2015 (publication)
    Responsible Party U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Products Branch (Point of Contact, Publisher)
    Contact Email
    Guid 06BC7814-390C-4C5C-B943-0248FE0A7011
    Access Constraints
    Bbox East Long -114.039648
    Bbox North Lat 42.002207
    Bbox South Lat 35.001857
    Bbox West Long -120.006473
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update
    Harvest Object Id 394810dd-c851-443a-baf3-fd992269aa69
    Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
    Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
    Licence 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.
    Lineage
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-120.006473, 35.001857], [-114.039648, 35.001857], [-114.039648, 42.002207], [-120.006473, 42.002207], [-120.006473, 35.001857]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System 4326
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2012-06-01
    Temporal Extent End 2013-05-01

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