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Census Blocks Kenosha County, Wisconsin 2010
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Census Blocks Kenosha County, Wisconsin 2010
- Originator
- United States Census Bureau
- Creation Date
- 2010-01-01
- Publication Date
- 2010-01-01
- Identifier
- https://geodiscovery.uwm.edu/catalog/ark:-77981-gmgs3f4km77
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Other Citation Details
- Date Acquired: February 3, 2012
- Abstract
- This polygon data layer represents census block for Kenosha County, Wisconsin in 2010. The dataset was originally published by the United States Census Bureau in 2011.[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.]
- Purpose
- This layer is intended for reference and mapping purposes and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [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.]
- Supplemental Information
- Metadata created by AGSL staff for internal and discovery use. For official metadata contact the resource Point of Contact.
- Temporal Extent
- Bounding Box
- West
- -88.30903
- East
- -87.011791
- North
- 42.689328
- South
- 42.468428
- ISO Topic Category
- society
- Place Keyword
- Kenosha County
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GeoNames
- Theme Keyword
-
Polygon
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- FGDC
- Theme Keyword
- Census
-
TIGER
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Resource Constraints
- Use Limitation
- Please see the UWM Libraries statement on Copyright and Digital Collections. [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
- Use Limitation
- Although this data is being distributed by the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
- Other Restrictions
- None
- Status
- completed
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- unknown
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- United States Census Bureau
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- United States Census Bureau
- geo.geography@census.gov
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 9071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 9.6.3
Data Quality Information
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
- Result
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Changed file name from tl_2010_5509_tabblock10.shp to KenoshaCounty_CensusBlocks_2010.shp
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Distributor
- United States Census Bureau
- Online Access
- Protocol
- Name
Spatial Representation Information
- Vector
- Topology Level
- geometryOnly
- Vector Object Type
- composite
- Vector Object Count
- 4182
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- ark:/77981/gmgs3f4km77
- Dataset URI
- https://geodata.uwm.edu/public/gmgs3f4km77/KenoshaCounty_CensusBlocks_2010.zip
- Metadata Point of Contact
- Name
- American Geographical Society Library – UWM Libraries
- Position Name
- GIS Staff
- Delivery Point
- 2311 E Hartord Ave
- City
- Milwaukee
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53211
- Country
- US
- gisdata@uwm.edu
- Phone
- (414)-229-6282
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2019-08-06
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- 8859part1