U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Geography Division/Cartographic Products Branch
201404
2013 Cartographic Boundary File, 2010 Urban Area for United States,
1:500,000
vector digital
data
Cartographic Boundary Files
2013
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2013/UAC/cb_2013_us_ua10_500k.zip
The 2013 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected
geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically
Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary
files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible
generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among
geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year.
Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are
available as nation-based shapefiles while others are available only as state-based
files.
These files were specifically created to support small-scale thematic mapping. To
improve the appearance of shapes at small scales, areas are represented with fewer vertices
than detailed TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Cartographic boundary files take up less disk space
than their ungeneralized counterparts. Cartographic boundary files take less time to render
on screen than TIGER/Line Shapefiles. You can join this shapefile with table data downloaded
from American FactFinder by using the AFFGEOID field in the cartographic boundary file. If
detailed boundaries are required, please use the TIGER/Line Shapefiles instead of the
generalized cartographic boundary files.
201404
201404
publication date
None planned. No changes or updates will be made to this
version of the cartographic boundary files. New versions of the cartographic boundary files
will be produced on an annual release schedule. Types of geography released may vary from
year to year.
172.000000
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None
2013
Cartographic Boundary
Generalized
Shapefile
Urban Cluster
Urbanized Area
UC
UA
Urban Area
ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Boundaries
None
United States
US
None
The intended display scale for this file is 1:500,000. This file should not be
displayed at scales larger than 1:500,000. 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 is for visual display at appropriate small scales only.
Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geographic analysis including area or
perimeter calculation. Files should not be used for geocoding addresses. Files should not be
used for determining precise geographic area relationships.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census
Bureau, Geography Division
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301.763.1128
301.763.4710
geo.geography@census.gov
Accurate against American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Publication INCITS 446-2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)) at the 100% level for the codes and base names present in the file. The remaining attribute information has
been examined but has not been fully tested for accuracy.
The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical
consistency of the source database. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a
polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons were 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. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for
consistency. For the cartographic boundary 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.
The cartographic boundary files are generalized representations of extracts
taken from the MAF/TIGER Database. Generalized boundary files are clipped to a simplified
version of the U.S. outline. As a result, some off-shore areas may be excluded from the
generalized files. Some small holes or discontiguous parts of areas are not included in
generalized files.
Data are not accurate. Data are generalized
representations of geographic boundaries at
1:500,000.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Geography Division
unpublished material
Census MAF/TIGER database
Geo-spatial Relational Database
20130101
20130101
The dates describe the effective date of 2013
cartographic boundaries.
MAF/TIGER
All spatial and feature data
Spatial data were extracted from the MAF/TIGER database and
processed through a U.S. Census Bureau batch generalization system.
withheld
201404
INCITS (formerly FIPS) codes.
Vector
Simple
FALSE
0
TRUE
FALSE
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137.000000
298.257222
cb_2013_us_ua10_500k.shp
2010 Urban Area (UA) National entities
U.S. Census Bureau
Feature Class
0
OBJECTID
OBJECTID
OID
4
10
0
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
UACE10
2010 Census urban area code
U.S. Census Bureau
00001 to 98999
Urban Area Code
U.S. Census Bureau
UACE10
String
5
0
0
AFFGEOID10
American FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code
+ '00US' + GEOID
U.S. Census Bureau
American FactFinder geographic
identifier
U.S. Census Bureau
AFFGEOID10
String
14
0
0
GEOID10
2010 Census Urban area identifier, 2010 Census urban
area code
U.S. Census Bureau
National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal
Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents, The urban area code that
appears in UACE10
U.S. Census Bureau
GEOID10
String
5
0
0
NAME10
2010 Census Urban area name
U.S. Census Bureau
data are unavailable
NAME10
String
100
0
0
LSAD10
2010 Census legal/statistical area description code for
urban area
U.S. Census Bureau
75
Urbanized Area
U.S. Census Bureau
76
Urban Cluster
U.S. Census Bureau
LSAD10
String
2
0
0
UATYP10
2010 Census urban area type
U.S. Census Bureau
U
Urbanized Area (suffix)
U.S. Census Bureau
C
Urban Cluster (suffix)
U.S. Census Bureau
UATYP10
String
1
0
0
ALAND10
ALAND10
Double
8
14
0
AWATER10
AWATER10
Double
8
14
0
Shape
Shape
Geometry
8
0
0
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
Shape.STArea()
Shape.STArea()
Double
0
0
0
Shape.STLength()
Shape.STLength()
Double
0
0
0
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Geography Division
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301.763.1128
geo.geography@census.gov
No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of
these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census
Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of
distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the
U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information is for small-scale
mapping purposes only; boundary depiction and designation for small-scale mapping purposes
do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or
entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.
SHP (compressed)
The files were compressed using Linux-based Info-ZIP Zip 2.32. Files can be decompressed with PK-ZIP, version 1.93A or higher, WinZip or other decompression software packages.
http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html
The online cartographic boundary files may be downloaded without charge.
The cartographic boundary files contain geographic data only and do not
include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use
cartographic boundary file data with specific software package users shall contact the
company that produced the software
201404
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Geography Division/Cartographic Products Branch
mailing
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301.763.1128
301.763.4710
geo.geography@census.gov
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