TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2016, nation, U.S., Current Combined Statistical Area (CSA) National

Description

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. 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. The CBSAs that combine to create a CSA retain separate identities within the larger CSA. Because CSAs represent groupings of CBSAs, they should not be ranked or compared with individual CBSAs. The CSA boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census and published in 2013.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 tl_2016_us_csa.zip https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/CSA/tl_2016_us_csa.zip
21 Should be used for most mapping projects--this is our most comprehensive dataset. Designed for use with GIS (geographic information systems). https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html
23 This Rest Service contains the Current Combined Statistical Area (CSA) https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/CBSA/MapServer
52 This web mapping service contains the layer for the Current Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Since this layer displays at scales of 1:18,489,298 or greater, adjusting the BBox coordinates in the URL is necessary https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2016/MapServer/WMSServer

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  • united states
  • polygon
  • csa
  • nation
  • combined statistical area
  • u.s.

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