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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entity and Attribute File for the 2010 2013 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000 | XML | Entity and Attribute File for the 2010 2013 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000 | Open resource |
| cb_2013_us_zcta510_500k.zip | ZIP | 2010 2013 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000 | Open resource |
| TIGER Products | HTML | 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 | Open resource |