TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2013, Series Information File for the Current Area Landmark Shapefile 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. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.
issued: 2025-11-22T13:37:25.667077
modified: 2025-11-22T13:37:25.667081
spatial: Location
keyword: amerigeo
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: area-landmark
keyword: ckan
keyword: geo
keyword: geoss
keyword: national
keyword: north-america
keyword: polygon
keyword: state-or-equivalent-entity
keyword: united-states
keyword: us

Web Resource
type: Distribution
issued: 2020-12-03T23:35:01.644467
modified: 2025-11-22T13:37:25.659490
access URL: http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/AREALM

US Migrating
type: Agent