About US Census Data  
 

US Census Data are archived by county. Within each county directory a zip directory contains archives for each data layer. In addition, a zip archive containing TIGER data for that county is included under the name <countyname>.zip.

The data are provided in ESRI Shapefile format and are presented in Geographic coordinates. The first few characters of the file name form a prefix that identifies the layer. The following chart decodes these prefixes:

blk Census Blocks - 1990 colblk Census 2000 Collection Blocks
blk00 Census Blocks - 2000 wat2 Water Polygons - multi
plc Designated Places 1990 lkA Line features - Roads
plc00 Designated Places 2000 lkB Line features - Rails
ccd00 County Census Divisions 2000 lkC Line features - Misc. Trans.
vot00 Voting Districts 2000 lkD Line features - Landmarks
kgl Key Geographic Locations lkE Line features - Physical
lpy Landmark Polygons lkF Line features - Non-visible
lpt Landmark Points lkH Line features - Hydrography
taz Traffic Analysis Zones cty County 1990
elm School Districts-Elementary cty00 County - Current
uni School Districts-Unified trt Census Tracts 1990
wat Water Polygons trt00 Census Tracts 2000
cd106 Congressional Districts-106th grp Block Groups 1990
cdc Congressional Districts-Current gr00 Block Groups 2000
lpy3 Landmark Polygons - multi Census Table Data




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