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United States 113th Congressional Districts Boundaries, 2013
- Identification Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Publication Date
- 2013
- Title
- United States 113th Congressional Districts Boundaries, 2013
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/gis/images/ntad_2013_cd113.zip
- Abstract
- 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. Congressional Districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the States based on census population counts, each State is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a State as practicable. The congressional districts for the 113th Congress (January 2013 to 2015) are the first Congressional Districts based on 2010 Census data. The TIGER/Line shapefiles for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts are provided to the Census Bureau through the Redistricting Data Program (RDP).
- Purpose
- 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.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2013
- Bounding Box
- West
- -179.147340
- East
- 179.778470
- North
- 71.352561
- South
- 17.884813
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2013
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- None
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- GT-polygon composed of chains
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 437
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 8.983152841195215e-009
- Longitude Resolution
- 8.983152841195215e-009
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal Degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D WGS 1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS 1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.0
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257223563
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- cd113
- Entity Type Definition
- 113th Congressional District National
- Entity Type Definition Source
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- DISTRICT
- Congressional District Code
- Definition Source
- U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)
- NAME
- Name the congress person that represents the congressional district
- Definition Source
- Techpolitics
- PARTY
- The party affiliation
- Definition Source
- Techpolitics
- STATE
- US Postal Service State Abbreviation (Official US Postal Service State AbbreviationsUS Postal Service (USPS))
- Definition Source
- U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)
- STFIPS
- State FIPS code (Federal Information Processing StandardNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))
- Definition Source
- RITA/BTS
- Distribution Information
- Distributor
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportaion Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20140925
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St., 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212)854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998