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- Tiger/Line® Data
What are Tiger/Line® Shapefiles
- TIGER/Line®Shapefiles are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas.
- They are made available to the public for no charge and are typically used to provide the digital map base for a Geographic Information System or for mapping software.
- They are designed for use with geographic information system (GIS) software. The TIGER/Line® Shapefiles do not include demographic data, but they contain geographic entity codes that can be linked to the Census Bureau's demographic data, available on this site or through the Census Burea American FactFinder
108th Congressional District Census 2000 TIGER/Line® Shapefiles
Metadata for the 108th CD Census TIGER/Line® Files can be found at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tlmetadata/tl108cdmeta.txt.
Downloads
Shapefiles were converted from the TIGER/Line®-Files using the TGR2SHP program available for free download from here. Please refer to the TGR2SHP User's Manual for further information.
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State TIGER/Line® Shapefiles
These files consist of one .zip file for each shapefile for the entire state. For example, the blocks00.zip file contains the layer for the Census 2000 Blocks polygons for the State of Texas. -
County TIGER/Line® Shapefiles
These files consist of one .zip file for all shapefiles within a county. For example, the TGR48201.zip file contains all layers for Harris county. -
TIGER/Line® files
The 108th CD Census 2000 TIGER/Line® files are the latest verison of the Census 2000 TIGER/Line® files and use the same file format as the other Census 2000 TIGER/Line® files
Projections and Metadata
The original TIGER/Line® data are not in a mapping projection even though most of the features were scanned directly from source maps that were in a projection. The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) is the coordinate datum used for the 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. A North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) projection has been defined for the State- and County-level shapefiles. A projection file is now included with the State- and County-level shapefiles.
If you need further information concerning the content of the TIGER/Line® Shapefiles, please contact the Geographic Products Branch, Geography Division at geo.tiger@census.gov. The telephone number is (301) 763-1128.