2020 Cartographic Boundary File (KML), Current State Legislative District-Lower Chamber for West Virginia, 1:500,000
type: Dataset
description: The 2020 cartographic boundary KMLs are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to State legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the state legislature. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia has a single council, both of which the Census Bureau treats as upper-chamber legislative areas for the purpose of data presentation; there are no data by SLDL for either Nebraska or the District of Columbia. A unique three-character census code, identified by State participants, is assigned to each SLD within a state. In Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and Puerto Rico, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the SLDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no SLDs defined, the code "ZZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single SLD for purposes of data presentation. The generalized boundaries in this file are based on the most recent state legislative district boundaries collected by the Census Bureau for the 2018 election year and provided by state-level participants through the RDP.
keyword: 2020
keyword: AmeriGEO
keyword: AmeriGEOSS
keyword: CKAN
keyword: GEO
keyword: GEOSS
keyword: National
keyword: North America
keyword: United States
keyword: cartographic boundary
keyword: generalized
keyword: kml
keyword: lower chamber
keyword: lower district
keyword: state legislative district
keyword: west virginia
keyword: wv
issued: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.272630
modified: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.272638
spatial: Location

US Migrating
type: Agent

cb_2020_54_sldl_500k.zip
type: Distribution
description: The cartographic boundary files are simplified representations of selected geographic areas specifically designed for small scale thematic mapping. These files contain simplified extracts of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) database.
media type: application/zip
format: ZIP
access URL: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/kml/cb_2020_54_sldl_500k.zip
issued: 2023-12-14T17:01:58.252729
modified: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.245343

cb_2020_54_sldl_500k.kml.ea.iso.xml
type: Distribution
description: Entity and attribute file
media type: application/xml
format: XML
access URL: https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2020/kml/19110/cb_2020_54_sldl_500k.kml.ea.iso.xml
issued: 2023-12-14T17:01:58.252736
modified: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.246610

2020_file_name_def.pdf
type: Distribution
description: The file naming convention for the cartographic boundary files.
media type: application/pdf
format: PDF
access URL: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/2020_file_name_def.pdf
issued: 2023-12-14T17:01:58.252739
modified: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.247836

description.pdf
type: Distribution
description: General description of the cartographic boundary files and their appropriate use.
media type: application/pdf
format: PDF
access URL: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2020/description.pdf
issued: 2023-12-14T17:01:58.252742
modified: 2025-09-24T05:19:32.249033