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Places United States 2010
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Title
- Places United States 2010
- Edition
- 2010
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-tg10usplaces
- Abstract
- This polygon data layer represents the 2010 TIGER/Line census places for the United States. The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The TIGER/Line Files 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 for the 2010 Census is that they must contain some housing and population. The boundaries of all 2010 Census incorporated places are as of January 1, 2010 as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The boundaries of all 2010 Census CDPs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP).
- Purpose
- In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- Publication Date
- Time Period
- Beginning
- 201001
- End
- 201007
- Bounding Box
- West
- -176.713098
- East
- 173.429921
- North
- 71.340257
- South
- -14.419950
- Theme Keyword
- Census
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- State or equivalent entity
- Polygon
- Census Designated Place
- CDP
- City
- Village
- Town
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- United States
- United States
- U.S.
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- INCITS.38-200x (R2004),INCITS.31-200x (R2007),INCITS.454-200x,INCITS 455-200x,INCITS 446-2008
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- 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.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database. No changes or updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census MAF/TIGER database.
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Products Branch
- Delivery Point
- 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
- City
- Washington
- State
- DC
- Postal Code
- 20233-7400
- Country
- United States
- Contact Telephone
- 301-763-1128
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 301-763-4710
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- geo.tiger@census.gov
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- Accurate against Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), FIPS Publication 6-4, and FIPS-55 at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The remaining attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for accuracy.
- Logical Consistency Report
- The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits of shapefiles. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons are tested for closure. The Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions, places, American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census MAF/TIGER database files. Most of the codes for geographic entities except states, counties, urban areas, Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), American Indian Areas (AIAs), and congressional districts were provided to the Census Bureau by the USGS, the agency responsible for maintaining FIPS 55. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for consistency. For the TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the Point and Vector Object Count for the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type reflects the number of records in the shapefile attribute table. For multi-polygon features, only one attribute record exists for each multi-polygon rather than one attribute record per individual G-polygon component of the multi-polygon feature. TIGER/Line Shapefile multi-polygons are an exception to the G-polygon object type classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a shapefile, the object count will be less than the actual number of G-polygons.
- Completeness Report
- Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census MAF/TIGER database at the time the TIGER/Line Shapefiles were created.
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division
- Publication Date
- Unpublished material
- Title
- Census MAF/TIGER database
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Range of Dates/Times
- Beginning Date
- 201001
- Ending Date
- 201007
- Source Currentness Reference
- Publication Date
- Contribution
- The selected geographic and cartographic information (line segments) are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database.
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Indirect Spatial Reference Method
- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), ANSI, and feature names.
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 29793
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000458
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000458
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1983 in the 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Pacific Island Areas.
- Ellipsoid Name
- Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298257
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- TG10USPLACES.shp
- Entity Type Definition
- 2010 Census Place State-based
- Entity Type Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Attributes
- OBJECTID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- STATEFP10
- 2010 Census state Federal Information Processing Standards
(FIPS) codes (INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of
the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the
Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2)U.S. Census Bureau)
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- PLACEFP10
- 2010 Census place Federal Information Processing Standards
(FIPS) 55 code (Federal Information Processing Series Census Codes for
Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and
other Locational Entities of the United States, Puerto
Rico, and the Island Areas (Formerly FIPS 55-3)U.S. Census Bureau)
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- PLACENS10
- 2010 Census place ANSI code (INCITS 446-2008, (GNIS) Identifying Attributes for Named
Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads
and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories,
Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the
Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile
Statutory ZoneU.S. Geological Survey (USGS))
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- GEOID10
- Place identifier; a concatenation of 2010 Census state FIPS
code and place FIPS code (INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of
the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the
Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2),
Federal Information Processing Series Census Codes for
Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and
other Locational Entities of the United States, Puerto
Rico, and the Island Areas (Formerly FIPS 55-3)U.S. Census Bureau)
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- NAME10
- 2010 Census place name (Refer to the place Gazetteer file at URL:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.htmlU.S. Census Bureau)
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- NAMELSAD10
- 2010 Census name and the translated legal/statistical area
description for place (Refer to the place Gazetteer file at URL:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html and
the translated legal/statistical area description code for
place that appears in LSAD10U.S. Census Bureau)
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- LSAD10
- 2010 Census legal/statistical area description code for place
- 00
- Blank
- 25
- city
- 37
- municipality
- 43
- town
- 47
- village
- 53
- city and borough
- 55
- comunidad
- 57
- census designated place (CDP)
- 62
- zona urbana
- BL
- (balance)
- CB
- consolidated government (balance)
- CN
- corporation
- GT
- government
- MB
- metropolitan government (balance)
- MG
- metropolitan government
- MU
- metro government (balance)
- UB
- unified government (balance)
- UC
- urban county
- UG
- unified government
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- CLASSFP10
- 2010 Census Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 55
class code
- C1
- An active incorporated place that does not serve as a county subdivision
- C2
- An active incorporated place that is legally coextensive with a county subdivision but treated as independent of any county subdivsion
- C5
- An incorporated place that is independent of any county subdivision and serves as a county subdivision
- C6
- An active incorporated place that is coextensive with or approximates an Alaska Native village statistical area
- C7
- An incorporated place that is independent of any county
- C8
- The balance of a consolidated city excluding the separately incorporated place(s) within that consolidated government
- C9
- An inactive or nonfunctioning incorporated place
- M2
- A military or other defense installation entirely within a place
- U1
- A census designated place with an official federally recognized name
- U2
- A census designated place without an official federally recognized name
- U5
- A census designated place that is coextensive with a county subdivision
- U9
- A census designated place that is coextensive with or approximates an Alaska Native village statistical area
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- PCICBSA10
- 2010 Census metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area
principal city indicator
- N
- Not a principal city of a CBSA
- Y
- Is a principal city of a CBSA
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- PCINECTA10
- 2010 Census New England city and town area principal city
indicator
- N
- Geographic entity is not a principal city of a NECTA
- Y
- Geographic entity is a principal city of a NECTA
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- MTFCC10
- MAF/TIGER feature class code
- G4110
- Incorporated place
- G4210
- Census designated place
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- FUNCSTAT10
- 2010 Census functional status
- A
- Active government providing primary general-purpose functions
- B
- Active government that is partially consolidated with another government but with separate officials providing primary general-purpose functions
- F
- Fictitious entity created to fill the Census Bureau geographic hierachy
- I
- Inactive governemental unit that has the power to provide primary special-purpose functions
- N
- Nonfunctioning legal entity
- S
- Statistical entity
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- ALAND10
- 2010 Census land area (square meters)
- 0 to 9,999,999,999,999
- Blank
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- AWATER10
- 2010 Census water area (square meters)
- 0 to 9,999,999,999,999
- Blank
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- INTPTLAT10
- 2010 Census latitude of the internal point
- 00
- Blank
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- INTPTLON10
- 2010 Census longitude of the internal point
- 00
- Blank
- Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- SHAPE
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.AREA
- Feature area.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.LEN
- Feature length.
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- http://hgl.harvard.edu/
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20120110
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Position
- Geospatial Resources Cataloger
- Contact Address
- Address
- Harvard University Library
- Address
- Office For Information Systems
- Address
- 90 Mount Auburn Street
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 617-495-2417
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 617-496-0440
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
- Hours of Service
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
