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Census Designated Places, Sacramento County, California, 2010

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Census Designated Places, Sacramento County, California, 2010
Originator
US Census Bureau
Publisher
Joe Concannon
Place of Publication
Sacramento , CA
Publication Date
2011-03-09
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Abstract
SACOG Region : Sacramento County in California.The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as 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 data users think census blocks are used geographically to 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 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 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. Census designated places (CDPs) are an upward aggregation of Blocks. CDPs are closely settled, named, unincorporated communities that generally contain a mixture of residential, commercial, and retail areas similar to those found in incorporated places of similar sizes.
Purpose
2010 Census Designated Places (CDPs) for Sacramento County. In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
Bounding Box
West
-121.619641
East
-121.024415
North
38.735398
South
38.152936
ISO Topic Category
planningCadastre
Place Keyword
Sacramento County (Calif.)
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Temporal Keyword
2010
Theme Keyword
Unincorporated areas.
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
lcsh
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
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.
Legal Constraints
Access Restrictions
otherRestrictions
Other Restrictions
Access constraints: None
Legal Constraints
Use Restrictions
otherRestrictions
Other Restrictions
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.
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
US Census Bureau
Point of Contact
Contact
Joe Concannon
Position Name
Data Services Manager
Delivery Point
1415 L St #300
City
Sacramento
Administrative Area
CA
Postal Code
95814
Email
jconcannon@sacog.org
Phone
916-321-9000

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
2226
Code Space
EPSG
Version
5.3(9.0.0)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Process Step
Description
Name changed from CensusDesignatedPlaces.shp to CensusDesignatedPlaces_Sacramento_2010.shp

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
ArcGIS 10.2
Distributor
UC Berkeley Library
Online Access
Protocol
Name

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
35

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
28722/bk0016n7w2c
Dataset URI
28722/bk0016n7w2c
Metadata Date Stamp
2018-04-02
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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