TIGER: US Census Counties 2016

TIGER/2016/Counties
Dataset Availability
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z–2017-01-02T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("TIGER/2016/Counties")
FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("TIGER/2016/Counties_FeatureView")

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.

Explore with Earth Engine

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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Visualize as a FeatureView

A FeatureView is a view-only, accelerated representation of a FeatureCollection. For more details, visit the FeatureView documentation.

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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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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