The geographic coverage for a single TIGER/Line file is a county or statistical equivalent entity, with the coverage area based on January 1, 2000 legal boundaries. A complete set of Census 2000 TIGER/Line files includes all counties and statistically equivalent entities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas. The Census 2000 TIGER/Line files consist of line segments representing physical features and governmental and statistical boundaries. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line files 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. There are 17 record types, including the basic data record, the shape coordinate points, and geographic codes that can be used with appropriate software to prepare maps. Other geographic information contained in the files includes attributes such as feature identifiers/census feature class codes (CFCC) used to differentiate feature types, address ranges and ZIP Codes, codes for legal and statistical entities,latitude/longitude coordinates of linear and point features,landmark point features, area landmarks, key geographic features,and area boundaries.
Be sure to look over the documentation for the TIGER/Line files.
The dynamic map below enables you to zoom into a particular county and download the TIGER/Line files for that county. Please note that this function only includes the states; it does not include Guam and other island areas.
You can also choose to browse alphabetical lists of states and counties. This is especially useful for those geographic regions hard to pinpoint on a map (like Guam), and for downloading files for an entire state.
The UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line files contain the Census 2000 urban areas and Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). All Census 2000 geographic entities appear in the UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. The 108th Congressional Districts are defined using Census 2000 data and, because they are a post- Census 2000 geographic entity, they do not appear in this version of the TIGER/Line files.
The Census 2000 Urban Area and PUMA codes appear on Record Type A. To accommodate both the Census 2000 urban area codes and the 1990 urbanized area codes on Record Type A, the Urban/Rural Indicator fields moved from Record Type A to Record Type S.
The Census 2000 Urban Area TIGER/Line data dictionary contains a complete list of all the fields in the 17 record types which are listed below.
The TIGER/Line data is stored in compressed format in subdirectories by state name. There is one TIGER/Line file (in a compressed format) for each county or county equivalent. The file names consist of TGR + the 2-digit state FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code + the 3-digit county FIPS code (i.e. TGR01031.ZIP for Coffee County, Alabama.) Each state folder contains individual county files.
The individual county files include one file for each record type included for that county with the following name convention: tgr01031.rt1. The convention follows the order described above with each file having a suffix which includes 'rt' (record type) followed by its designation (in this case record type 1). Each county file also contains its own metadata record.
All documentation files for the TIGER/Line data are stored in a directory named '0docs' which is located in the 'Parent Directory'. This directory appears at the top of the index of state subdirectories for each edition of the TIGER/Line files. The documentation includes a complete list of FIPS state and county codes.
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