{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "Downloaded 2020 TIGER files for Census Counties shapefiles for the states of DE,MD,PA,VA,WV, and DC from the Census website. Merged the Block Group files together, then clipped to TPBComm.", "description": "

Counties and equivalent entities are primary legal divisions of states. In most states, these entities are termed \u201ccounties.\u201d Alaska and the Census Bureau cooperatively delineate these census areas for statistical purposes. In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are also known as independent cities.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Each county or statistically equivalent entity has a 3-character FIPS code that is unique within a state, and an 8-character ANSI code<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "Downloaded 2020 TIGER files for Census Counties shapefiles for the states of DE,MD,PA,VA,WV, and DC from the Census website. Merged the Block Group files together, then clipped to TPBComm.", "title": "Census Counties - TPB Commuter Shed Area (2020)", "tags": [ "NGDA", "Governmental Units and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme", "National Geospatial Data Asset", "Nation", "Polygon", "County", "Borough", "Parish", "Municipality", "Boundaries", "TPB", "MWCOG" ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 150000000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "The file was created from Census 2020 TIGER Files\n\nThe 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.", "licenseInfo": "

This file may be available to interested parties through an official COG data request. For more information, contact a member of the GIS Team. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>" }