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    • TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, Nation, U.S., Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA)

    Metadata Updated: November 1, 2022

    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.

    Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core. Categories of CBSAs are: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urbanized areas of 50,000 or more population; and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urban clusters of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000 population.

    The CBSA boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census, published in 2013, and updated in 2018.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date June 1, 2020
    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date November 1, 2022
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Archived NGDA Standalones

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    URL for the TigerWeb Mapping Service

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date June 1, 2020
    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date November 1, 2022
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication)
    Responsible Party U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (Publisher)
    Contact Email
    Guid tl_2020_us_cbsa.shp.iso.xml
    Access Constraints 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.
    Bbox East Long 179.859681
    Bbox North Lat 71.439786
    Bbox South Lat -14.601813
    Bbox West Long -179.231086
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Graphic Preview Description URL for the TigerWeb Mapping Service
    Graphic Preview File https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/WmsServer?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS=Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas62762,Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas_Labels6295&STYLES=default,default&FORMAT=image/svg+xml&BGCOLOR=0xFFFFFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=+42.4731,-72.3758,+42.8986,-71.3912&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
    Graphic Preview Type URL
    Harvest Object Id 403b62e5-9aac-40c0-b3a7-e2467b948f04
    Harvest Source Id 1f2212ed-f1f8-4ea1-b928-e306f77f2247
    Harvest Source Title Archived NGDA Standalones
    Licence
    Lineage
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.231086, -14.601813], [179.859681, -14.601813], [179.859681, 71.439786], [-179.231086, 71.439786], [-179.231086, -14.601813]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2019-06
    Temporal Extent End 2020-05

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