Series Information for the 2013 Cartographic Boundary File, 2010 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area, 1:500,000

Description

The 2013 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 shapefiles while others are available only as state-based files.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 2010 2013 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000 http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2013/cb_2013_us_zcta510_500k.zip
21 TIGER products are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html
55 Entity and Attribute File for the 2010 2013 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000 http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2014gz/zcta510_500k/2014_zcta510_500k.ea.iso.xml

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  • census tract
  • united states
  • generalized
  • shapefile
  • us
  • 2013
  • boundaries
  • cartographic boundary
  • state
  • county

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