TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2017, nation, U.S., Current New England City and Town Area (NECTA) 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.. In New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has defined an alternative county subdivision (generally cities and towns) based definition of Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) known as New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs). NECTAs are defined using the same criteria as Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and are identified as either metropolitan or micropolitan, based, respectively, on the presence of either an urban area of 50,000 or more population or an urban cluster of at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 population. A NECTA containing a single core urban area with a population of at least 2.5 million may be subdivided to form smaller groupings of cities and towns referred to as NECTA Divisions.. Boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census, published in 2013, and updated in 2015.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 tl_2017_us_necta.zip https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2017/NECTA/tl_2017_us_necta.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/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html
23 This Rest Service contains the Current New England City and Town Area layer https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/CBSA/MapServer
52 This web mapping service contains the layer for the Current New England City and Town Areas. This URL is to be used in mapping software like ArcMap. To use this in a web browser, see the OGC Web Mapping Specification. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2017/MapServer/WMSServer

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  • new england city and town area
  • united states
  • polygon
  • nation
  • necta
  • u.s.

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