Title: Census Blocks, San Joaquin County, California, 2010
- Polygon data
- 2015
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 2015
- Coverage: 2010
Publishers
- San Joaquin County (Calif.). Community Development Department
Summary
This polygon shapefile containing 2010 U.S. Census blocks for San Joaquin County, California was extracted from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces. In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles. San Joaquin County (Calif.). Community Development Department. (2015). Census Blocks, San Joaquin County, California, 2010. San Joaquin County Community Development Department. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gd100jk2257. The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These 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 in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest. 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 Joaquin County (Calif.)
- Census districts
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-121.585078, -120.920665, 38.300252, 37.481783)
- Geometry: BBOX (-121.585078, -120.920665, 38.300252, 37.481783)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
San Joaquin County (Calif.). Community Development Department, United States. Bureau of the Census. Census Blocks, San Joaquin County, California, 2010. San Joaquin County (Calif.). Community Development Department. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/gd100jk2257
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English