U.S. State Boundaries - Data Dictionary
Abstract: The State Boundary with Detailed Shorelines database was created using TIGER/LINE 2000 shapefile data gathered from ESRI's Geography Network. The individual county shapefiles were processed into Arc/Info coverages and then appended together to create complete state coverages. RITA/BTS Hydrographic data was integrated to create detailed shorelines.
Purpose: The United States State Boundaries database is a geographic database of state political boundaries. The database includes boundaries for all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.
Supplemental Information: The RITA/BTS State Boundary Database contains TIGER 2000 geometry and attributes. To find out more about TIGER/Line files and other Census TIGER data base derived data sets visit http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger.
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FID |
Internal feature number. |
Long Integer representing an object identifier |
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Shape |
Feature geometry. |
Geometry |
| 2 |
STFIPS |
State FIPS code |
Character String |
| 3 |
STATE |
State name |
Character String |
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STPOSTAL |
U.S. Postal Service two letter state abbreviation. |
Character String |
| 5 |
VERSION |
Version of the database. |
Character String |
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REVISION |
Feature revision number. An initial value of 00 is assigned to each record. |
Character String |
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