Identification Information

Abstract The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Block Groups (BGs) are defined before tabulation block delineation and numbering, but are clusters of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, Census 2000 tabulation blocks 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within Census 2000 tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. Census 2000 BGs generally contained between 600 and 3,000 people, with an optimum size of 1,500 people. Most BGs were delineated by local participants in the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). The Census Bureau delineated BGs only where the PSAP participant declined to delineate BGs or where the Census Bureau could not identify any local PSAP participant. A BG usually covers a contiguous area. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tract. Within the standard census geographic hierarchy, BGs never cross county or census tract boundaries, but may cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs coded 0 were intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. For Census 2000, rather than extending a census tract boundary into the Great Lakes or out to the U.S. nautical three-mile limit, the Census Bureau delineated some census tract boundaries along the shoreline or just offshore. The Census Bureau assigned a default census tract number of 0 and BG of 0 to these offshore, water-only areas not included in regularly numbered census tract areas.
Purpose In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.

Time Period of Content

Range of Dates/Times

Beginning Date 2010-01
Ending Date 2010-07

Currentness Reference publication date

Status

Progress Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database. No changes or updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census MAF/TIGER database.

Spatial Domain

Bounding Coordinates

West Bounding Coordinate -109.047513
East Bounding Coordinate -107.608283
North Bounding Coordinate 33.209646
South Bounding Coordinate 31.863694

Keywords

Theme

Thesaurus None
Keyword County or equivalent entity
Keyword Polygon
Keyword Block Group
Keyword BG

Theme

Thesaurus ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Keyword boundaries

Place

Thesaurus INCITS.38-200x (R2004),INCITS.31-200x (R2007),INCITS.454-200x,INCITS 455-200x,INCITS 446-2008
Keyword United States
Keyword U.S.
Keyword County or Equivalent Entity
Keyword Grant
Keyword 35017

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.

Point of Contact

Contact Information

Contact Person Primary

Contact Person
Contact Organization

Contact Organization Primary

Contact Organization Earth Data Analysis Center
Contact Person

Contact Position RGIS Clearinghouse Manager

Contact Address

Address Type mailing address
Address MSC01 1110
Address 1 University of New Mexico
City Albuquerque
State or Province NM
Postal Code 87131-0001
Country USA

Contact Voice Telephone (505) 277-3622

Contact Facsimile Telephone (505) 277-3614

Contact Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu

Hours of Service 8:00-5:00 Mountain Time Zone

Contact Instructions

Data Quality Information

Attribute Accuracy Report

Report Accurate against Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), FIPS Publication 6-4, and FIPS-55 at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The remaining attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for accuracy.

Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment

Attribute Accuracy Value
Attribute Accuracy Explanation

Logical Consistency Report The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits of shapefiles. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons are tested for closure. The Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions, places, American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census MAF/TIGER database files. Most of the codes for geographic entities except states, counties, urban areas, Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), American Indian Areas (AIAs), and congressional districts were provided to the Census Bureau by the USGS, the agency responsible for maintaining FIPS 55. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for consistency. For the TIGER/Line Shapefiles, the Point and Vector Object Count for the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type reflects the number of records in the shapefile attribute table. For multi-polygon features, only one attribute record exists for each multi-polygon rather than one attribute record per individual G-polygon component of the multi-polygon feature. TIGER/Line Shapefile multi-polygons are an exception to the G-polygon object type classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a shapefile, the object count will be less than the actual number of G-polygons.

Completeness Report Data completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census MAF/TIGER database at the time the TIGER/Line Shapefiles were created.

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Source Information

Source Citation

Citation Information

Originator U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division

Publication Date Unpublished

Publication Time

Title Census MAF/TIGER database

Geospatial Data Presentation Form

Publication Information

Publication Place
Publisher

Other Citation Details

Source Scale Denominator

Type of Source Media online

Source Time Period of Content

Source Currentness Reference publication date

Source Citation Abbreviation MAF/TIGER

Source Contribution The selected geographic and cartographic information (line segments) are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database.

Process Step

Process Description TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data.
Source Used Citation Abbreviation MAF/TIGER
Process Date 2010
Process Time
Process Contact

Spatial Data Organization Information

Indirect Spatial Reference Method Catron County (35003)

Direct Spatial Reference Method Vector

Point and Vector Object Information

SDTS Terms Description

SDTS Point and Vector Object Type G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count 25

Spatial Reference Information

Spatial Reference

Name North American Datum of 1983 in the 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Pacific Island Areas.
Code EPSG:4269
URL http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?gml=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269

Spatial Reference

Name Geodetic Reference System 80
Code EPSG:7019
URL http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?gml=urn:ogc:def:ellipsoid:EPSG::7019

Entity and Attribute Information

Detailed Description

Entity Type

Entity Type LabelBG10.shp
Entity Type Definition 2010 Census Block Group County-based
Entity Type Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label STATEFP10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census state Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Codeset Domain

Codeset Name INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2)
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label COUNTYFP10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census county Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Codeset Domain

Codeset Name INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4)
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label TRACTCE10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census census tract code

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 000000
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Water tract in some coastal and Great Lakes water and territorial sea
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census

Enumerated Domain Value 000100 to 998999
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Census tract number
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label BLKGRPCE10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census block group number

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 0
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Water block group
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Enumerated Domain Value 1 to 9
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Census 2000 block group code
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label GEOID10

Attribute Definition Census block group identifier; a concatenation of 2010 Census state FIPS code, county FIPS code, census tract code, and block group number

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Codeset Domain

Codeset Name INCITS.38-200x (R2004), Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 5-2), INCITS.31-200x (R2007), Codes for the Identification of the Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States (Formerly FIPS 6-4), and the census tract code found in TRACTCE10 and block group number found in BLKGRPCE10
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label NAMELSAD10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census translated legal/statistical area description and the block group number

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Unrepresentable Domain Refer to the block group number that appears in BLKGRPCE10 and translated legal/statistical area description code BG, Block Group

Attribute

Attribute Label MTFCC10

Attribute Definition MAF/TIGER feature class code

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value G5030
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Block Group
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label FUNCSTAT10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census functional status

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value S
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Statistical entity
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label ALAND10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census land area (square meters)

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 0 to 9,999,999,999,999
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Blank
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label AWATER10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census water area (square meters)

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 0 to 9,999,999,999,999
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Blank
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label INTPTLAT10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census latitude of the internal point

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 00
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Blank
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label INTPTLON10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census longitude of the internal point

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Enumerated Domain

Enumerated Domain Value 00
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Blank
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Distribution Information

Distributor
Resource Description Downloadable Data
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Metadata Reference Information

Metadata Date 2024-11-13

Metadata Review Date

Metadata Future Review Date

Metadata Contact

Contact Information

Contact Person Primary

Contact Person
Contact Organization

Contact Organization Primary

Contact Organization Earth Data Analysis Center
Contact Person

Contact Position Clearinghouse Manager

Contact Address

Address Type mailing and physical address
Address MSC01 1110
Address 1 University of New Mexico
City Albuquerque
State or Province NM
Postal Code 87131-0001
Country USA

Contact Voice Telephone 505-277-3622 ext. 230

Contact Facsimile Telephone 505-277-3614

Contact Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu

Hours of Service 0800 - 1700 MT, M-F -7 hours GMT

Contact Instructions

Metadata Standard Name FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata Standard Version FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata Time Convention

Metadata Access Constraints

Metadata Use Constraints

Metadata Security Information

Security Classification System
Security Classification
Security Handling Description

Metadata Extensions

Grant County 2010 Census Block Groups

Metadata from the RGIS Metadata Repository

Identification Information

Data Quality Information

Spatial Data Organization Information

Spatial Reference Information

Entity and Attribute Information

Distribution Information

Metadata Reference Information