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Title: Census Places, 1990 - San Francisco Bay Area, California (Clipped)

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2002
  • Coverage: 1990

Publishers

  • California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains the Census places for the San Francisco Bay Area based as of January 1, 2000. These data have been clipped to the shoreline for cartographic representation. Places, for the reporting of decennial census data, include census designated places, consolidated cities, and incorporated places. Each place is assigned a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code. This layer is part of the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) GIS Maps and Data collection. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. California, Metropolitan Transportation Commission. (2002). Census Places, 1990 - San Francisco Bay Area, California. MTC. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/th890tz9933. 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
  • San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Contra Costa County (Calif.)
  • Napa County (Calif.)
  • San Mateo County (Calif.)
  • Solano County (Calif.)
  • Sonoma County (Calif.)
  • Marin County (Calif.)
  • Alameda County (Calif.)
  • Census
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use planning
  • Land settlement patterns
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-123.109141, -121.520451, 38.818479, 36.975699)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-123.109141, -121.520451, 38.818479, 36.975699)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division. Census Places, 1990 - San Francisco Bay Area, California (Clipped). California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/th890tz9933

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English