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Organizations: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

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  • 2018_prisecroads

    Primary roads are generally divided, limited-access highways within the interstate highway system or under State management, and are distinguished by the presence of interchanges.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_faces

    Face refers to the areal (polygon) topological primitives that make up MTDB.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_facesal

    . The Topological Faces / Area Landmark Relationship File (FACESAL.dbf) contains a record for each face / area landmark relationship.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_ttract

    A tribal census tract is a relatively permanent statistical subdivision of a federally recognized American Indian reservation and/or off-reservation trust land, delineated by the American Indian tribal government and/or the Census Bureau for the purpose of presenting demographic data. For the 2010 Census, tribal census tracts are defined independently of the standard county-based census tract delineation.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_mil

    The Census Bureau includes landmarks such as military installations in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_SCSD

    School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from state officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_subbarrio

    In Puerto Rico the subMCDs are termed subbarrios and are legally defined subdivisions of the minor civil division (MCD) named barrios-pueblo and barrios. The boundaries of the subbarrios are as of January 1, 2010 and were provided to the Census Bureau by the Puerto Rico Planning Board.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_sldu

    State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to State legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the state legislature.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_pointlm

    The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, mountain peaks/summits, schools, and churches and other religious institutions.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2018_tract

    Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_necta

    NECTAs are defined using the same criteria as Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and are identified as either metropolitan or micropolitan, based, respectively, on the presence of either an urban area of 50,000 or more population or an urban cluster of at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 population

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_cbsakml

    Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_subbarioKML

    For the 2010 Census, subMCDs only exist in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico the subMCDs are termed subbarrios and are legally defined subdivisions of the minor civil division (MCD) named barrios-pueblo and barrios. The boundaries of the subbarrios are as of January 1, 2010 and were provided to the Census Bureau by the Puerto Rico Planning Board.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_countyKML

    he 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. I

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_cousub

    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), statistical census subareas (in Alaska), and unorganized territories.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_csakml

    Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs) are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of two or more adjacent Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) that have significant employment interchanges.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cd_bg

    he 2019 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_sldukml

    . SLDU stands for State Legislative District Upper Chamber. State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to state legislatures

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_cdkml

    Congressional Districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

  • 2019cb_nectaKML

    NECTAs are defined using the same criteria as Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and are identified as either metropolitan or micropolitan, based, respectively, on the presence of either an urban area of 50,000 or more population or an urban cluster of at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 population.

    — Organization: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce