Metadata Updated: November 1, 2022
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 primary legal divisions of most states are termed counties. In Louisiana, these divisions are known as parishes. In Alaska, which has no counties, the equivalent entities are the organized boroughs, city and boroughs, municipalities, and for the unorganized area, census areas. The latter are delineated cooperatively for statistical purposes by the State of Alaska and the Census Bureau. In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation. The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions, and each area is considered an equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation. The Census Bureau treats the following entities as equivalents of counties for purposes of data presentation: Municipios in Puerto Rico, Districts and Islands in American Samoa, Municipalities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas is covered by counties or equivalent entities.
The boundaries for counties and equivalent entities are as of January 1, 2019, primarily as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).
Access & Use Information
License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.
Downloads & Resources
- Shapefile Zip FileZIP 115 views
tl_2019_us_county.zip
- TIGER/Line ShapefilesHTML 1106 views
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- TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current (MapServer)WMS 767 views
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- TIGERweb/State_County (MapServer)Esri REST 24 views
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Dates
Metadata Date | October 8, 2019 |
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Metadata Created Date | November 1, 2022 |
Metadata Updated Date | November 1, 2022 |
Reference Date(s) | 2019 (publication) |
Frequency Of Update | notPlanned |
Metadata Source
- ISO-19139 ISO-19139 Metadata
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Harvested from Archived NGDA Standalones
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- borough
- county
- municipio
- nation
- parish
- polygon
- u.s.
- united states
Additional Metadata
Resource Type | Dataset |
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Metadata Date | October 8, 2019 |
Metadata Created Date | November 1, 2022 |
Metadata Updated Date | November 1, 2022 |
Reference Date(s) | 2019 (publication) |
Responsible Party | Unknown |
Contact Email | |
Guid | tl_2019_us_county.shp.iso.xml |
Access Constraints | 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. |
Bbox East Long | 179.859681 |
Bbox North Lat | 71.439786 |
Bbox South Lat | -14.601813 |
Bbox West Long | -179.231086 |
Coupled Resource | |
Frequency Of Update | notPlanned |
Graphic Preview Description | URL for the TigerWeb Web Mapping Service |
Graphic Preview File | http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/WmsServer?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=Counties,Counties Labels&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/svg+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=41.187053,-73.508142,42.88679,-69.858861&WIDTH=891&HEIGHT=751 |
Graphic Preview Type | URL for the TigerWeb Web Mapping Service |
Harvest Object Id | 96c92494-8319-4acd-8141-b26ce1047bbd |
Harvest Source Id | 1f2212ed-f1f8-4ea1-b928-e306f77f2247 |
Harvest Source Title | Archived NGDA Standalones |
Licence | |
Lineage | |
Metadata Language | eng |
Metadata Type | geospatial |
Old Spatial | {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.231086, -14.601813], [179.859681, -14.601813], [179.859681, 71.439786], [-179.231086, 71.439786], [-179.231086, -14.601813]]]} |
Progress | completed |
Spatial Data Service Type | |
Spatial Reference System | |
Spatial Harvester | True |
Temporal Extent Begin | 2018-06 |
Temporal Extent End | 2019-05 |
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