TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2019, Series Information for the 2010 Census Block State-based Shapefile
type: Dataset
description: The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.
issued: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.042931
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.042942
spatial: Location
keyword: AmeriGEO
keyword: AmeriGEOSS
keyword: CKAN
keyword: GEO
keyword: GEOSS
keyword: National
keyword: North America
keyword: United States
keyword: block
keyword: census block
keyword: u.s
keyword: united states

TIGERweb/Tracts_Blocks (MapServer)
type: Distribution
description: Census Tracts and Blocks
format: Esri REST
issued: 2021-10-12T21:42:44.259740
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.022000
access URL: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Tracts_Blocks/MapServer

Web Resource
type: Distribution
issued: 2021-10-12T21:42:44.259725
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.016552
access URL: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/TABBLOCK/

Web Page
type: Distribution
description: tiger-line-file.html
format: HTML
issued: 2021-10-12T21:42:44.259731
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.017949
access URL: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html

TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current (MapServer)
type: Distribution
description: This web mapping service contains the layer for the 2019This URL is to be used in mapping software like ArcMap. To use this in a web browser, see the OGC Web Mapping Specification.
format: Esri REST
issued: 2021-10-12T21:42:44.259737
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.020698
access URL: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer

XML File
type: Distribution
description: tl_2019_tabblock10.ea.iso.xml
format: XML
issued: 2021-10-12T21:42:44.259734
modified: 2025-09-24T11:43:27.019331
access URL: https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Tiger2019/tabblock10/tl_2019_tabblock10.ea.iso.xml

US Migrating
type: Agent