TIGER: US Census Counties 2016

Dataset Availability

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z–2017-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dataset Provider

United States Census Bureau

Earth Engine Snippet

FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("TIGER/2016/Counties")

FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("TIGER/2016/Counties_FeatureView")

Tags

census county table tiger us

Description

The United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains the 2016 boundaries for primary legal divisions of US states. In most states, these entities are termed "counties". In Louisiana, these divisions are known as "parishes".

Alaska has governmental entities called "boroughs" which fill a similar governmental role to counties, but in some areas those governmental responsibilities are handled directly by the state and sometimes by a city. For Alaska, county equivalent entities thus include

1. organized boroughs,
2. combined city and borough entities (e.g. Juneau),
3. municipalities, and
4. census areas.

The census areas are delineated cooperatively for statistical purposes by the State of Alaska and the Census Bureau.

In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as county-equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation.

The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions and each area is considered a county-equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation. The Census Bureau treats the following entities as equivalents of counties for purposes of data presentation: municipios in Puerto Rico, districts and islands in America Samoa, municipalities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

For full technical details on all TIGER 2016 products, see the TIGER technical documentation.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name	Type	Description
ALAND	DOUBLE	Land area
AWATER	DOUBLE	Water area
CBSAFP	STRING	Metropolitan statistical area/micropolitan statistical area code
CLASSFP	STRING	FIPS class code
COUNTYFP	STRING	County FIPS code
COUNTYNS	STRING	County GNIS code
CSAFP	STRING	Combined statistical area code
FUNCSTAT	STRING	Functional Status
GEOID	STRING	County identifier; a concatenation of state FIPS code and county FIPS code
INTPTLAT	STRING	Internal point latitude
INTPTLON	STRING	Internal point longitude
LSAD	STRING	Legal/statistical area description for the county
METDIVFP	STRING	Metropolitan division code
MTFCC	STRING	MAF/TIGER feature class code (=G4020)
NAME	STRING	County name
NAMELSAD	STRING	Name and the translated legal/statistical area description for the county
STATEFP	STRING	State FIPS code

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

The U.S. Census Bureau offers some of its public data in machine-readable format via an Application Programming Interface (API). All of the content, documentation, code and related materials made available through the API are subject to these terms and conditions.

Citations

Citations:

• For the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the data set, users should cite the US Census Bureau.

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.FeatureCollection('TIGER/2016/Counties');
var visParams = {
  palette: ['purple', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow', 'orange', 'red'],
  min: 0,
  max: 50,
  opacity: 0.8,
};
var stateDataset = ee.FeatureCollection('TIGER/2016/States');

// Turn the strings into numbers
dataset = dataset.map(function (f) {
  return f.set('STATEFP', ee.Number.parse(f.get('STATEFP')));
});

var image = ee.Image().float().paint(dataset, 'STATEFP');
var countyOutlines = ee.Image().float().paint({
  featureCollection: dataset,
  color: 'black',
  width: 1
});
var stateOutlines = ee.Image().float().paint({
  featureCollection: stateDataset,
  color: 'black',
  width: 3
});

Map.setCenter(-99.844, 37.649, 5);
Map.addLayer(image, visParams, 'TIGER/2016/Counties');
Map.addLayer(stateOutlines, {}, 'state outlines');
Map.addLayer(countyOutlines, {}, 'county outlines');
Map.addLayer(dataset, null, 'for Inspector', false);

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var fvLayer = ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer('TIGER/2016/Counties_FeatureView');

var visParams = {
  opacity: 1,
  polygonStrokeColor: 'black',
  polygonFillColor: {
    property: 'STATEFP',
    categories: [
      ['08', 'purple'],  // Colorado counties
      ['32', 'blue']     // Nevada counties
    ],
    defaultValue: 'white'
  }
};

fvLayer.setVisParams(visParams);
fvLayer.setName('US census counties');

Map.setCenter(-99.844, 37.649, 5);
Map.add(fvLayer);

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TIGER: US Census Counties 2016

The United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains the 2016 boundaries for primary legal divisions of US states. In most states, these entities are termed "counties". In Louisiana, these divisions are known as "parishes". Alaska has governmental entities called "boroughs" which fill a similar governmental role to counties, but in …

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z/2017-01-02T00:00:00Z

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