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Title: Massachusetts House Legislative Districts

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2001-07
  • Coverage: 1993

Summary

This datalayer is a polygon coverage for Massachusetts displaying the House Legislative District boundaries as defined by Chapter 273 of the Acts of 1993. This layer was derived from the Massachusetts Electronic Atlas database published by the Harvard Map Collection in 2001. The Massachusetts Electronic Atlas (MEA) was a collaborative project to provides access, via the Internet, to data about the Commonwealth, its thirteen regional planning agency districts and 351 cities and towns. This dataset is now only available via The Harvard Geospatial Library.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Massachusetts
  • Legislative bodies
  • Legislators
  • House of Representatives
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • Election districts
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.533243, -69.898478, 42.888312, 41.230343)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-73.533243, -69.898478, 42.888312, 41.230343)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Massachusetts House Legislative Districts. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-meahouse93py

Format

Shapefile