tracts15

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information
• City
• Country
• City
• Country
• City
• Country

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division

Publication_Date: 20150101

Title: tracts15

Edition: 2015

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Online_Linkage:

<http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/TRACT/tl_2015_15_tract.zip>

Description:

Abstract:

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. 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. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions. In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. For the 2010 Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2000 data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899 was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park, military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900 through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area, no land area.

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.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20140601

Ending_Date: 20150501

Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -178.458967

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -154.388472

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.942899

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 18.032053

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Theme_Keyword: Boundaries

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: Polygon

Theme_Keyword: Tract

Theme_Keyword: Census Tract

Theme_Keyword: State or equivalent entity

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NGDA Portfolio Themes

Theme_Keyword: NGDA

Theme_Keyword: National Geospatial Data Asset

Theme_Keyword:

Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Theme_Keyword: boundaries

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:

ANSI INCITS 38:2009 (Formerly FIPS 5-2), ANSI INCITS 31:2009 (Formerly FIPS 6-4),ANSI INCITS 454:2009 (Formerly FIPS 8-6), ANSI INCITS 455:2009(Formerly FIPS 9-1), ANSI INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS))

Place_Keyword: U.S.

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: HI

Place_Keyword: 15

Place_Keyword: Hawaii

Place_Keyword: State or Equivalent Entity

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.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Products Branch

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400

City: Washington

State_or_Province: DC

Postal_Code: 20233-7400

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-763-1128

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-763-4710

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: geo.tiger@census.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Accurate against National Standard Codes, Federal Information Processing (FIPS) and the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) 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 the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). 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_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division

Publication_Date: unpublished material

Title: Census MAF/TIGER database

Type_of_Source_Media: onLine

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20140601

Ending_Date: 20150501

Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MAF/TIGER

Source_Contribution: All line segments

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: MAF/TIGER

Process_Date: 20150101

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference:

Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), and feature names.

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 351

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1983 HARN UTM Zone 4N

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -159.0

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0

False_Easting: 500000.0

False_Northing: 0.0

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.0001

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.0001

Planar_Distance_Units: meter

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983 HARN

Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: tracts15

Entity_Type_Definition: Current Census Tract State-based

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: TRACTCE

Attribute_Definition: Current census tract code

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 000100 to 998999

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Census tract number

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 990000 to 990099

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Water tract (2010 and continuing)

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 990100 to 998999

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Census tract number

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COUNTYFP

Attribute_Definition:

Current county Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Codeset_Domain:

Codeset_Name:

National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents

Codeset_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MTFCC

Attribute_Definition: MAF/TIGER feature class code

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: G5020

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Census Tract

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AWATER

Attribute_Definition: Current water area (square meters)

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 0

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NAME

Attribute_Definition:

Current census tract name, this is the census tract code converted to an integer or integer plus two-digit decimal if the last two characters of the code are not both zeros.

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Values for this attribute are composed of a set of census tract names. As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: INTPTLAT

Attribute_Definition: Current latitude of the internal point

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -90

Range_Domain_Maximum: 90

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ALAND

Attribute_Definition: Current land area (square meters)

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0

Range_Domain_Maximum: 0

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NAMELSAD

Attribute_Definition:

Current translated legal/statistical area description and the census tract name

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Refer to the name in the 'TRACTCE' field and the translated legal/statistical area description code for census tracts

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FUNCSTAT

Attribute_Definition: Current functional status

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: S

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Statistical entity

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: GEOID

Attribute_Definition:

Census tract identifier, a concatenation of Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code, county FIPS code, and census tract code

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

The GEOID attribute is a concatenation of the state FIPS code, followed by the county FIPS code, followed by the census tract code. No spaces are allowed between the two codes. The State FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States". The county FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 31-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - Counties/County Equivalents". The census tract code is taken from the "TRACTCE" attribute.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: STATEFP

Attribute_Definition:

Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Codeset_Domain:

Codeset_Name:

National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents

Codeset_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: INTPTLON

Attribute_Definition: Current longitude of the internal point

Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -180

Range_Domain_Maximum: 180

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: featureuid

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: createdate

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: createdby

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: modifieddate

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: modifiedby

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: agency

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: deliverydate

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: sourceid

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: severity

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: publishdate

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: comments

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Pop15

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: shape_Length

Attribute_Definition: Length of feature in internal units.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: shape_Area

Attribute_Definition: Area of feature in internal units squared.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Products Branch

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400

City: Washington

State_or_Province: DC

Postal_Code: 20233-7400

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-763-1128

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-763-4710

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: geo.tiger@census.gov

Distribution_Liability:

No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: TGRSHP (compressed)

File_Decompression_Technique: PK-ZIP, version 1.93 A or higher

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/TRACT/tl_2015_15_tract.zip>

Fees:

The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge.

Ordering_Instructions:

To obtain more information about ordering TIGER/Line Shapefiles visit <http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger>

Technical_Prerequisites:

The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20171222

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Products Branch

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400

City: Washington

State_or_Province: DC

Postal_Code: 20233-7400

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-763-1128

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-763-4710

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: geo.tiger@census.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

City: Washington

Country: US

City: Washington

Country: US

City: Washington

Country: US