Feature Catalog for the Current State Legislative District (SLD) Lower Chamber State-based Shapefile
The Current State Legislative District (SLD) Lower Chamber State-based contains attributes for the areas from which members are elected to
the lower (house) chambers of State legislatures.
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Current State Legislative District (SLD) (Lower chamber) State-based
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STATEFP
Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code
National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents
SLDLST
Current state legislative district (lower chamber) code
Any ASCII alphabetic or numeric character combination plus hyphens from one to three characters. A code of ZZZ represents a
State legislative district (lower chamber) that has not been defined.
GEOID
State legislative district lower chamber identifier; a concatenation of Current state FIPS code and state legislative district
lower chamber code
The GEOID attribute is a concatenation of the state FIPS code followed by the state legislative district lower chamber
code. No spaces are allowed between the two codes. The State FIPS code is taken from "National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS
38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series(FIPS) - States". The state legislative district lower chamber code is taken
from the "SLDLST" attribute.
NAMELSAD
Current name and the translated legal/statistical area description for state legislative district (lower chamber)
Values for this attribute are composed of a set of name codes. As such, they do not exist in a known, predefined set. For
the current name and the translated legal/statistical area description code, refer to the "LSAD" attribute.
LSAD
Current legal/statistical area description code for state legislative district (lower chamber)
00
Blank
07
District (suffix)
L3
Assembly District (prefix)
L4
General Assembly District (prefix)
L5
State Legislative District (prefix)
L6
State Legislative Subdistrict (prefix)
L9
State House District (suffix)
LL
State House District (prefix)
LSY
Legislative session year
Range Domain Minimum: 2000
Range Domain Maximum: 2999
MTFCC
MAF/TIGER feature class code
G5220
State Legislative District (Lower Chamber)
FUNCSTAT
Current functional status
F
Fictitious Entity created to fill the Census Bureau geographic hierarchy
N
Nonfunctioning legal entity
ALAND
Current land area (square meters)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
AWATER
Current water area (square meters)
Range Domain Minimum: 0
Range Domain Maximum: 9,999,999,999,999
INTPTLAT
Current latitude of the internal point
Range Domain Minimum: -90.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 90.000000
INTPTLON
Current longitude of the internal point
Range Domain Minimum: -180.000000
Range Domain Maximum: 180.000000