MS_Tracts_2020
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Tags census geography, tracts, Mississippi, National Geospatial Data Asset, Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme

Summary
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, 2020 state, Mississippi, 2020 Census Census Tract State-based

In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for othergeographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles
Description
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, 2020 state, Mississippi, 2020 Census Tracts State-based
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. Block Groups (BGs) are clusters of blocks within the same census tract. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tracts. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, tabulation blocks numbered 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within census tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. BGs coded 0 are intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. A BG usually covers a contiguous area but never crosses county or census tract boundaries. They may, however, cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. The BG boundaries in this release were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2020 Census
Credits
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
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Use limitations
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. 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 boundaries 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
Extent
West
-91.737508
East
-88.095839

North
35.005536
South
30.129162

Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in)
1:5,000

Minimum (zoomed out)
1:150,000,000

ArcGIS Metadata .
Topics and Keywords .
THEMES OR CATEGORIES OF THE RESOURCE boundaries, planningCadastre
* CONTENT TYPE Downloadable Data
EXPORT TO FGDC CSDGM XML FORMAT AS RESOURCE DESCRIPTION No

THEME KEYWORDS National Geospatial Data Asset, Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme

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Citation .
* TITLE MS_Tracts_2020
PUBLICATION DATE 2021-02-01 00:00:00
PRESENTATION FORMATS * digital map
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Citation Contacts .
RESPONSIBLE PARTY
ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
CONTACT'S ROLE custodian
CONTACT INFORMATION .
PHONE
VOICE 301-763-1128
FAX 301-763-4710

ADDRESS
TYPE physical
DELIVERY POINT 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400
CITY Washington DC
POSTAL CODE 20233-7400
COUNTRY US
E-MAIL ADDRESS geo.geography@census.gov

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Resource Details .
DATASET LANGUAGES * English (UNITED STATES)
DATASET CHARACTER SET utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format
STATUS completed
SPATIAL REPRESENTATION TYPE * vector
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
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 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. 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

* PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362
CREDITS
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
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CREDITS
Census MAF/TIGER database

ARCGIS ITEM PROPERTIES
* NAME MS_Tracts_2020
* SIZE 15.053
* LOCATION file://\\DESKTOP-TP9LNVL\F$\DATA\00_CENSUS\02_TIGER\TIGER_2020\Statewide_2020\mstm_layers\MS_Tracts_2020.shp
* ACCESS PROTOCOL Local Area Network

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Extents .
EXTENT
GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT
BOUNDING RECTANGLE
EXTENT TYPE Extent used for searching
* WEST LONGITUDE -91.737508
* EAST LONGITUDE -88.095839
* NORTH LATITUDE 35.005536
* SOUTH LATITUDE 30.129162
* EXTENT CONTAINS THE RESOURCE Yes

EXTENT IN THE ITEM'S COORDINATE SYSTEM
* WEST LONGITUDE 318558.025054
* EAST LONGITUDE 650997.953624
* SOUTH LATITUDE 1038674.181780
* NORTH LATITUDE 1577862.780447
* EXTENT CONTAINS THE RESOURCE Yes

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Resource Points of Contact .
POINT OF CONTACT
INDIVIDUAL'S NAME MAF/TIGER
ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,Geography Division
CONTACT'S ROLE resource provider
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Resource Maintenance .
RESOURCE MAINTENANCE
UPDATE FREQUENCY not planned
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Resource Constraints .
CONSTRAINTS
LIMITATIONS OF USE
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. 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 boundaries 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

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Spatial Reference .
ARCGIS COORDINATE SYSTEM
* TYPE Projected
* GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATE REFERENCE GCS_North_American_1983
* PROJECTION NAD_1983_Mississippi_TM
* COORDINATE REFERENCE DETAILS
PROJECTED COORDINATE SYSTEM
WELL-KNOWN IDENTIFIER 102609
X ORIGIN -5122200
Y ORIGIN -12297100
XY SCALE 450339697.45066422
Z ORIGIN -100000
Z SCALE 10000
M ORIGIN -100000
M SCALE 10000
XY TOLERANCE 0.001
Z TOLERANCE 0.001
M TOLERANCE 0.001
HIGH PRECISION true
LATEST WELL-KNOWN IDENTIFIER 3814
WELL-KNOWN TEXT PROJCS["NAD_1983_Mississippi_TM",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",1300000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-89.75],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9998335],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",32.5],UNIT["Meter",1.0],AUTHORITY["EPSG",3814]]

REFERENCE SYSTEM IDENTIFIER
* VALUE 3814
* CODESPACE EPSG
* VERSION 6.17.1(10.0.0)
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Spatial Data Properties .

VECTOR .
* LEVEL OF TOPOLOGY FOR THIS DATASET geometry only
GEOMETRIC OBJECTS
FEATURE CLASS NAME MS_Tracts_2020
* OBJECT TYPE composite
* OBJECT COUNT 878

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ARCGIS FEATURE CLASS PROPERTIES .
FEATURE CLASS NAME MS_Tracts_2020
* FEATURE TYPE Simple
* GEOMETRY TYPE Polygon
* HAS TOPOLOGY FALSE
* FEATURE COUNT 878
* SPATIAL INDEX TRUE
* LINEAR REFERENCING FALSE

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Data Quality .

SCOPE OF QUALITY INFORMATION .
RESOURCE LEVEL attribute
SCOPE DESCRIPTION
ATTRIBUTES
Non_Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Report: National Standard Codes, Federal Information Processing (FIPS) and the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) TIGER/Line Shapefile Test

ATTRIBUTES
Non_Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Report: 100% accurate for the codes and base names.

ATTRIBUTES
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 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. 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

ATTRIBUTES
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.

ATTRIBUTES
TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data. 2020</gco:CharacterString>

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Lineage .
LINEAGE STATEMENT
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 This was transformed from the Census Geospatial Product Metadata Content Standard
This dataset is currently a National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) dataset. Next October, thisdataset will be edited to remove all the NGDA related tags metadata tags

PROCESS STEP .
DESCRIPTION
TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data. 2020

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SOURCE DATA .
DESCRIPTION
Census MAF/TIGER database
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch(custodian)

SOURCE MEDIUM NAME online link
SOURCE CITATION .
TITLE Census MAF/TIGER database
PUBLICATION DATE 2021-01-29 00:00:00
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Distribution .
DISTRIBUTION FORMAT
VERSION 10.8
* NAME Shapefile
TRANSFER OPTIONS
* TRANSFER SIZE 15.053
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Fields .

DETAILS FOR OBJECT MS_Tracts_2020 .
* TYPE Feature Class
* ROW COUNT 878
DEFINITION
2020 Census Tracts State-based

DEFINITION SOURCE
US Census Bureau

FIELD FID .
* ALIAS FID
* DATA TYPE OID
* WIDTH 4
* PRECISION 0
* SCALE 0
* FIELD DESCRIPTION
Internal feature number.

* DESCRIPTION SOURCE
Esri

* DESCRIPTION OF VALUES
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

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FIELD Shape .
* ALIAS Shape
* DATA TYPE Geometry
* WIDTH 0
* PRECISION 0
* SCALE 0
* FIELD DESCRIPTION
Feature geometry.

* DESCRIPTION SOURCE
Esri

* DESCRIPTION OF VALUES
Coordinates defining the features.

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FIELD STATEFP20 .
* ALIAS STATEFP20
* DATA TYPE String
* WIDTH 2
* PRECISION 0
* SCALE 0
FIELD DESCRIPTION
2020 Census state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codes