TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2021, State, West Virginia, State Legislative Districts Upper Chamber

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. State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to State legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the state legislature. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia has a single council, both of which the Census Bureau treats as upper-chamber legislative areas for the purpose of data presentation; there are no data by SLDL for either Nebraska or the District of Columbia. A unique three-character census code, identified by State participants, is assigned to each SLD within a state. In Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and Puerto Rico, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the SLDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no SLDs defined, the code "ZZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single SLD for purposes of data presentation. The most recent state legislative district boundaries collected by the Census Bureau are for the 2018 election year, and were provided by state-level participants through the RDP. The Census Bureau holds the 2018 state legislative districts until the postcensal state legislative plans for the 2022 state legislatures are collected.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Entity and attribute file https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Archived_19110/tl_2021_sldu.shp.ea.iso.xml
23 The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Legislative/MapServer
57 The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are the fully supported, core geographic product from the U.S. Census Bureau. They are extracts 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. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2021/SLDU/tl_2021_54_sldu.zip
23 The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Map Service interface standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from our geospatial database. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images that can be displayed in a browser or WMS client application. By gaining access to our data through our WMS, users can produce maps containing TIGERweb layers combined with layers from other servers. https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2021/MapServer

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  • united states
  • polygon
  • state or equivalent entity
  • wv
  • west virginia
  • u.s.
  • legislative district
  • 54

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