New Mexico Census Designated Places
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Identification Information
- Title New Mexico Census Designated Places
- Date 2018-10-04
- Date Type Publication
- Cited Responsible Party
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- Organization Name U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
- Role identify
- Presentation Form vector digital data
- Abstract 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. The TIGER/Line
shapefiles include both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated
places or CDPs (statistical entities). An incorporated place is established to provide
governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil
division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area
without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a state, but may
extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is
a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are
delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated
places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population
that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the
state in which they are located. The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in
partnership with state, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible
features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP
boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the
settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census
does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size
requirement for CDPs is that they must contain some housing and population. The
boundaries of most incorporated places in this shapefile are as of January 1, 2015, as
reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The
boundaries of all CDPs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant
Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.
- 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.
- Status Complete
- Point of Contact
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Geographic Products Branch
- Position Name
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 301-763-1128
- Facsimile 301-763-4710
- Address
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- Delivery Point 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
- City Washington
- Administrative Area DC
- Postal Code 20233-7400
- Country United States
- Electronic Mail Address geo.tiger@census.gov
- Maintenance and Update Frequency 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.
- Descriptive Keywords NGDA, Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries
Theme, National Geospatial Data Asset, State or equivalent entity, Polygon, Census Designated Place, CDP, City, Village, Town
- 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.
- Language English
- Topic Category Boundaries
- Extent
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- Geographic Bounding Box
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- West Bound -109.049169
- East Bound -103.043557
- North Bound 37.000014
- South Bound 31.783148
- Temporal Extent
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- Beginning Position 2014-06
- Ending Position 2015-05
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Distribution Information
- Distributor
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center
- Position Name Clearinghouse Manager
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230
- Facsimile 505-277-3614
- Address
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- Delivery Point MSC01 1110
- Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
- City Albuquerque
- Administrative Area NM
- Postal Code 87131-0001
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
- Transfer Options
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- Online Resource ZIP
- Online Resource ESRI Shapefile (shp)
- Online Resource GML
- Online Resource KML
- Online Resource GeoJSON
- Online Resource JSON
- Online Resource Comma Separated Values (csv)
- Online Resource MS Excel format (xls)
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Spatial Reference Information
- Spatial References
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- Spatial Reference North American Datum of 1983
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- Online Reference EPSG:4269
- Spatial Reference Geodetic Reference System 80
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- Online Reference EPSG:7019
- Indirect Spatial Reference Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), and feature names.
- Geometric Object Type G-polygon
- Geometric Object Count 443
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Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
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- Report Accurate against National Standard Codes, Federal Information Processing (FIPS)
and the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) 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
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- 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 the
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). 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.
- Lineage
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- Source Information
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- Source Citation
- Source Scale Denominator
- Type of Source Media online
- Source Time Period of Content
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- Beginning Position 2014-06
- Ending Position 2015-05
- Source Currentness Reference Publication Date
- Source Citation Abbreviation MAF/TIGER
- Source Contribution All line segments
- Process Step
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- 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 2015
- Process Time
- Process Contact
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Metadata Reference Information
- File Identifier 241d8727-e304-4e46-9a96-37ba602c79e6
- Metadata Language English
- Hierarchy Level Dataset
- Date Stamp 2024-05-08
- Metadata Standard Name ISO 19115:2003
- Metadata Standard Version 1.0
- Metadata Contact
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- Individual Name
- Organization Name Earth Data Analysis Center
- Position Name Clearinghouse Manager
- Role Point of contact
- Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230
- Facsimile 505-277-3614
- Address
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- Delivery Point MSC01 1110
- Delivery Point 1 University of New Mexico
- City Albuquerque
- Administrative Area NM
- Postal Code 87131-0001
- Country USA
- Electronic Mail Address clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
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