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...
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>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.     </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This data set represents the boundaries of the 2020 Census Blocks, extracted from the MTDB in 2020. The feature class was re-projected from the Census Bureau shapefile tl_2020_34_tabblock20.shp . </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>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. All 2020 Census blocks nest within every other 2020 Census geographic area.  </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For additional references to explain the data, see Supplemental Information.  </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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