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Incorporated Places/CDPs
Cartographic Boundary File Metadata


Title

1990, 1998 Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places

Format

ARC/INFO Export (.e00), Arcview Shapefile, and ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) formats (1990 vintage only)

Description

1990, 1998 Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places by state equivalent code (FIPS)

Location:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/pl.html

Distributor

Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division

System

Geography extracted from the Census Bureau's TIGER database. Converted to an ARC/INFO coverage (v. 7.1) and then converted to ARC/INFO export (.e00) and/or Arcview Shapefile format

Originator

Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division

Scale Denominator

5,000,000

Place_Keyword

Incorporated Place / Census Designated Place

West_Bounding_Coordinate

172.46087

East_Bounding_Coordinate

-65.2215271

North_Bounding_Coordinate

71.34294128

South_Bounding_Coordinate

17.88511467

ARC/INFO Export Projection

Geographic (Lat/Lon)

Arcview Shapefile Projection

Geographic (Lat/Lon)

ARC/INFO Generate (ASCII) Projection

Geographic (Lat/Lon)

Datum

1990 NAD27, 1998 NAD83

Vintage

1/1/90, 1/1/98


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