Title: State Senate Districts: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015
- Polygon data
- 2015
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 2015
- Coverage: 2015
Publishers
- County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department
Summary
This polygon shapefile depicts boundaries for Senate Districts 2 and 5 for the County of Santa Cruz, California. This coverage contains portions of Senate Districts 11 and 15, which reside within Santa Cruz County. This layer was created in response to the 2000 Census and the resultant redistricting of Senate Districts. Prior to this, Santa Cruz County was a single Senate District. The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. Due to the state's large population and relatively small legislature, the Senate has the largest population per representative ratio of any state legislative house. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created for Santa Cruz County, California. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit falls under the purview of the County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. The GIS Unit serves all County departments and external customers and provides data on land, features and people of Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County encompasses 4 cities and approximately 265,000 people. This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. (2015). State Senate Districts: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. Santa Cruz County, California. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/sc682dr1736. GIS Layer Number = 8D/ Created by utilizing our existing county boundary, and bisecting it at locations indicated by digital files received by Santa Cruz County Elections staff. These data were compiled from many different sources; therefore, the accuracy of the individual layers varies significantly, and some layers do not align exactly with others. In the urban areas, data are generally accurate within five to ten feet of their true geographic coordinates, but in the rural areas, data may be accurate to only within three hundred feet. With these limitations, the County of Santa Cruz disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or correctness of this data. This disclaimer is exclusive and in lieu of any warranties, fitness for particular purpose, and/or any other type of warranty, whether expressed or implied. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Santa Cruz County (Calif.)
- Administrative and political divisions
- Election districts
- United States. Congress. Senate
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.317223, -121.582294, 37.286151, 36.848819)
- Geometry: BBOX (-122.317223, -121.582294, 37.286151, 36.848819)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Garcia, Paul, Price, Matt. State Senate Districts: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/sc682dr1736
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English