ISO 19115 Topic Categories
boundaries
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Cartographic Products and Services Branch
202005
2019 Cartographic Boundary File for the United States, 1:500,000 goedatabase
Geodatabase
https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2019/gdb/cbgdb_2019_us_all_500k.gdb.zip
The 2019 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 files
while others are available only as state-based files.
The 2019 Cartographic Boundary File for the United States, 1:500,000 goedatabase file contains the following layers: cb_2019_us_county_within_ua_500k, cb_2019_us_puma10_500k
cb_2019_us_ua10_500k, cb_2019_us_zcta510_500k, cb_2019_us_aiannh_500k, cb_2019_us_anrc_500k, cb_2019_us_bg_500k, cb_2019_us_cbsa_500k, cb_2019_us_cd116_500k,
cb_2019_us_cnecta_500k, cb_2019_us_concity_500k, cb_2019_us_county_500k, cb_2019_us_county_within_cd116_500k, cb_2019_us_cousub_500k, cb_2019_us_csa_500k
cb_2019_us_division_500k, cb_2019_us_elsd_500k cb_2019_us_necta_500k, cb_2019_us_place_500k, cb_2019_us_region_500k, cb_2019_us_scsd_500k, and cb_2019_us_sldl_500k.
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 file 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.
202005
202005
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ANRC
ANVSA
Alaska Native Area
Alaska Native Regional Corporation
Alaska Native Village Statistical Area
American Indian Area
Block Group
Borough
CBSA
CNECTA
CSA
Cartographic Boundary
Census Area
Census Tract
City and Borough
City
Combined New England City and Town Area
Combined Statistical Area
Congressional District
Consolidated City
County Subdivision
County equivalent
County
District
Division
Elementary School District
Generalized
Hawaiian Home Land
Independent City
Island
Lower Chamber
Lower District
Metropolitan Statistical Area
Micropolitan Statistical Area
Municipality
Municipio
NECTA
Native Hawaiian Area
New England City and Town Area
OTSA
Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area
Parish
Place
Public Use Microdata Area
Region
SDTSA
SHP
School District
Secondary School District
State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas
State Legislative District
Subminor Civil Division
TDSA
Tribal Designated Statistical Area
UA
UC
Unified School District
Upper Chamber
Urban Area
Urban Cluster
Urbanized Area
ZCTA
ZIP Code Tabulation Area
ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
United States
US
unrestricted
trademark
The intended display scale for this file is 1:5,000,000. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than 1:5,000,000. 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.
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Washington
DC
20233-7400
United States
301.763.1128
geo.geography@census.gov
301.763.4710
distributor
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.
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https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2019/gdb/cbgdb_2019_us_all_500k.gdb.zip
application/zip
PDF
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PDF
https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2019/2019_file_name_def.pdf?#
application/pdf
The online copy of the TIGER/Line geodatabases may be accessed without
charge.
The TIGER/Line geodatabases contain geographic data only and do not
include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the
TIGER/Line shapefile data with a specific software package, users should contact the
company that produced the software.
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dataset
This is a Geodatabase
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division
geo.geography@census.gov
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