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. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions. In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. For the 2010 Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2000 data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899 was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park, military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900 through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area, no land area.
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 -106.058364
East Bounding Coordinate -105.200117
North Bounding Coordinate 36.995991
South Bounding Coordinate 36.013014

Keywords

Theme

Thesaurus None
Keyword County or equivalent entity
Keyword Polygon
Keyword Census Tract
Keyword Tract

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 Taos
Keyword 35055

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 Rio Arriba County (35039)

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 6

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 LabelTRACT10.shp
Entity Type Definition 2010 Census Census Tract 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 GEOID10

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

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
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label NAME10

Attribute Definition 2010 Census census tract name, this is the census tract code converted to an integer or integer plus two-digit decimal if the last two characters of the code are not both zeros.

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Codeset Domain

Codeset Name Refer to the online census tract gazetteer file at URL: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute

Attribute Label NAMELSAD10

Attribute Definition Census 2010 translated legal/statistical area description and the census tract name

Attribute Definition Source U.S. Census Bureau

Attribute Domain Values

Codeset Domain

Codeset Name Refer to the online census tract gazetteer file at URL: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html and translated legal/statistical area description code CT, Census Tract
Codeset Source U.S. Census Bureau

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 G5020
Enumerated Domain Value Definition Census Tract
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
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Metadata Reference Information

Metadata Date 2024-12-27

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

Taos County 2010 Census Tracts

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