TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2016, Series Information for the Current Consolidated City State-based Shapefiles

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. A consolidated city is a unit of local government for which the functions of an incorporated place and its county or minor civil division (MCD) have merged. This action results in both the primary incorporated place and the county or MCD continuing to exist as legal entities, even though the county or MCD performs few or no governmental functions and has few or no elected officials. Where this occurs, and where one or more other incorporated places in the county or MCD continue to function as separate governments, even though they have been included in the consolidated government, the primary incorporated place is referred to as a consolidated city. The Census Bureau classifies the separately incorporated places within the consolidated city as place entities and creates a separate place (balance) record for the portion of the consolidated city not within any other place. The boundaries of the consolidated cities are those as of January 1, 2015, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
23 This Rest Service contains all the Consolidated Cities layers https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer
0 https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/CONCITY
55 tl_2016_concity.shp.ea.iso.xml https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2016///concity/tl_2016_concity.shp.ea.iso.xml
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
52 This web mapping service contains the layer for consolidated cities. Since this layer displays at scales of 1:1,399,997 or greater, adjusting the BBox coordinates in the URL is necessary https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/WMSServer

Tags

  • indiana
  • montana
  • tennessee
  • united states
  • polygon
  • consolidated city
  • kansas
  • state or equivalent entity
  • connecticut
  • georgia
  • u.s.

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