2020 Cartographic Boundary File (SHP), Current Unified School District for Oklahoma, 1:500,000

Description

The 2020 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. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. 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. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to states and school districts. The cartographic boundary files include separate files for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The generalized school district boundaries in this file are based on those in effect for the 2019-2020 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2020.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Entity and attribute file https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2020/shp/19110/cb_2020_40_unsd_500k.shp.ea.iso.xml
33 General description of the cartographic boundary files and their appropriate use. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/description.pdf
57 The cartographic boundary files are simplified representations of selected geographic areas specifically designed for small scale thematic mapping. These files contain simplified extracts of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/shp/cb_2020_40_unsd_500k.zip
33 The file naming convention for the cartographic boundary files. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/2020_file_name_def.pdf

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  • shp
  • unified school district
  • generalized
  • 2020
  • ok
  • school district
  • cartographic boundary
  • oklahoma

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