tl_2024_25_tabblocksufx.shp.iso.xml eng; USA utf8 dataset U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact 2024-09-24 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19115/tl_2024_25_tabblocksufx.shp.iso.xml complex 107446 North American Datum of 1983 NAD83 2007-01-19 revision https://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4269/gml/ NAD83 Link to Geographic Markup Language (GML) description of reference system. information resourceProvider urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269 TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2024, State, Massachusetts, 2020 Census Blocks with Suffixes 2024 publication 2024-10 creation 2024-10 lastUpdate tl_2024_25_tabblocksufx U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact mapDigital The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of select geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System (MTS). The MTS 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 dataset or can be combined to cover the entire nation. This shapefile contains the 2020 Census blocks with alphabetic block suffixes. A suffix occurs when an existing census block is split by an update to the boundary of a higher-level geographic entity such as an incorporated place. Census blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as a streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that census blocks are used geographicallyto build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2020 Census blocks nest within every other 2020 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces. The Census Bureau releases extracts of the MAF/TIGER database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles for others to use in geographic information systems (GIS) or for other geographic applications. completed U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact notPlanned Polygon Block Census Block Tabulation Block None State or Equivalent Entity Massachusetts MA 25 INCITS 38-2009[R2019]: Information Technology - Codes for the Identification of the States and Equivalent Areas within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas. otherRestrictions otherRestrictions 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. vector eng; USA utf8 boundaries The TIGER/Line shapefiles 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 specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software. -73.50821 -69.858861 41.187053 42.886778 publication date 2024-06 2025-10 1 2020 Census Blocks with suffixes Feature Catalog for the 2024 2020 Census Blocks with Suffixes TIGER/Line Shapefile 2024 publication U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19110/tl_2024_tabblocksufx.shp.ea.iso.xml ZIP U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov distributor The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge. https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2024/TABBLOCKSUFX/tl_2024_25_tabblocksufx.zip Shapefile Zip File tl_2024_25_tabblocksufx.zip The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are the fully supported, core geographic product from the U.S. Census Bureau. They are extracts 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. download https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19110/tl_2024_tabblocksufx.shp.ea.iso.xml XML tl_2024_tabblocksufx.shp.ea.iso.xml Entity and attribute file download dataset 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 congressionaldistricts 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. 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. 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. notPlanned This was transformed from the Census Bureau Geospatial Product Metadata Content Standard.