{"action":"create","ckan_id":null,"date_created":"Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:09:49 GMT","date_finished":null,"harvest_job_id":"8bc911e5-7f8c-4f99-acdd-4136186bebdc","harvest_source_id":"80b95bc1-caa7-479c-b3fd-3c288d022642","id":"8a764a50-f4f7-4246-93fb-e7901f780ddd","identifier":"https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2015gz/CartographicShapefiles/tract_500k/cb_2014_28_tract_500k.shp.iso.xml","parent_identifier":"https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2015gz/ISOParent/Cart/SeriesCollection_cb_2014_tract_500k.shp.iso.xml","source_hash":"9e3cb7e4d040fc2c05e066619cc6b0f5230e7d12819faede6ace21871b88900f","source_raw":"\r\n\r\n \r\n cb_2014_28_tract_500k.shp.iso.xml\r\n \r\n \r\n eng\r\n \r\n \r\n 8859part1\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n Series Information for the 2014 Cartographic Boundary File, State-County-Census Tract , 1:500,000\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\ndataset\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n 2015-05\r\n \r\n \r\n ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata \r\n \r\n \r\n 2009-02-15 \r\n \r\n \r\n http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2014/shp/cb_2014_28_tract_500k.zip\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n complex \r\n \r\n \r\n 661\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n INCITS (formerly FIPS) codes\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n 2014 Cartographic Boundary File, State-County-Census Tract for Mississippi, 1:500,000\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n 201505\r\n \r\n \r\n publication \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The 2014 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files.\r\n\r\nCensus tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity, and were defined by local participants as part of the 2010 Census Participant Statistical Areas Program. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate. The primary purpose of census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Census tracts generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 people, with an optimum size of 4,000 people. When first delineated, census tracts were designed to be homogeneous with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. The spatial size of census tracts varies widely depending on the density of settlement. Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions. In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. For the 2010 Census, the census tract code range of 9400 through 9499 was enforced for census tracts that include a majority American Indian population according to Census 2000 data and/or their area was primarily covered by federally recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands; the code range 9800 through 9899 was enforced for those census tracts that contained little or no population and represented a relatively large special land use area such as a National Park, military installation, or a business/industrial park; and the code range 9900 through 9998 was enforced for those census tracts that contained only water area, no land area.\r\n \r\n \r\n These files were specifically created to support small-scale thematic mapping. To improve the appearance of shapes at small scales, areas are represented with fewer vertices than detailed TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Cartographic boundary files take up less disk space than their ungeneralized counterparts. Cartographic boundary files take less time to render on screen than TIGER/Line Shapefiles. You can join this file with table data downloaded from American FactFinder by using the AFFGEOID field in the cartographic boundary file. If detailed boundaries are required, please use the TIGER/Line Shapefiles instead of the generalized cartographic boundary files.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n notPlanned\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Boundaries\r\n \r\n \r\n theme \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ISO 19115 Topic Categories\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n 2014\r\n \r\n \r\n SHP\r\n \r\n \r\n Cartographic Boundary\r\n \r\n \r\n Census Tract\r\n \r\n \r\n County\r\n \r\n \r\n Generalized\r\n \r\n \r\n State\r\n \r\n \r\n theme \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n None\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Mississippi\r\n \r\n \r\n MS\r\n \r\n \r\n place \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n ANSI INCITS 38:2009 (Formerly FIPS 5-2), ANSI INCITS 31:2009 (Formerly FIPS 6-4),ANSI INCITS 454:2009 (Formerly FIPS 8-6), ANSI INCITS 455:2009(Formerly FIPS 9-1), ANSI INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)) \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n otherRestrictions \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Access Constraints: None\r\n \r\n \r\n Use Constraints:The intended display scale for this file is 1:500,000. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than 1:500,000.\r\n\r\nThese 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 is for visual display at appropriate small scales only. Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geographic analysis including area or perimeter calculation. Files should not be used for geocoding addresses. Files should not be used for determining precise geographic area relationships.\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n vector\r\n \r\n \r\n eng\r\n \r\n \r\n 8859part1\r\n \r\n \r\n The cartographic boundary files contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use cartographic boundary file data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n -91.655009\r\n \r\n \r\n -88.097888\r\n \r\n \r\n 30.173943\r\n \r\n \r\n 34.996052\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n publication date\r\n 2015-05\r\n 2015-05\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n true\r\n \r\n \r\n County-Census Tract \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Feature Catalog for the 2014 State-County-Census Tract 1:500,000 Cartographic Boundary File\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2015gz/CartographicShapefiles/tract_500k/cb_2014_tract_500k.shp.ea.iso.xml\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n SHP\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The cartographic boundary files contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use cartographic boundary file data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n html\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The online cartographic boundary files may be downloaded without charge.\r\n \r\n \r\n To obtain more information about ordering Cartographic Boundary Files visit http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2014/shp/cb_2014_28_tract_500k.zip\r\n \r\n \r\n Shapefile Zip File\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html\r\n \r\n \r\n Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles\r\n \r\n \r\n Simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER geographic database\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n dataset \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Horizontal Positional Accuracy\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Data are not accurate. Data are generalized representations of geographic boundaries at 1:500,000.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n meters\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Missing \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The cartographic boundary files are generalized representations of extracts taken from the MAF/TIGER Database. Generalized boundary files are clipped to a simplified version of the U.S. outline. As a result, some off-shore areas may be excluded from the generalized files. Some small holes or discontiguous parts of areas are not included in generalized files.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency of the source database. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons were tested for closure. The Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic codes, such as INCITS (formerly FIPS) codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions, places, American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts are used when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census MAF/TIGER database files. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for consistency.\r\n\r\nFor the cartographic boundary files, the Point and Vector Object Count for the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type reflects the number of records in the file's data table. For multi-polygon features, only one attribute record exists for each multi-polygon rather than one attribute record per individual G-polygon component of the multi-polygon feature. Cartographic Boundary File multi-polygons are an exception to the G-polygon object type classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a file, the object count will be less than the actual number of G-polygons.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Spatial data were extracted from the MAF/TIGER database and processed through a U.S. Census Bureau batch generalization system.\r\n \r\n \r\n 2015-05-01T00:00:00\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n Geo-spatial Relational Database\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n MAF/TIGER\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n 201505\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n revision \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n notPlanned\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n This was transformed from the Census Metadata Import Format\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n","source_transform":{"@type":"dcat:Dataset","accessLevel":"non-public","contactPoint":{"@type":"vcard:Contact","fn":"U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch","hasEmail":"mailto:geo.geography@census.govv"},"describedByType":"application/octet-steam","description":"The 2014 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). 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They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division (MCD) or incorporated place boundaries in some States and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses. State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy. In a few rare instances, a census tract may consist of noncontiguous areas. These noncontiguous areas may occur where the census tracts are coextensive with all or parts of legal entities that are themselves noncontiguous. 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