Congressional Districts

ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  Congressional Districts

Reference date - creation:  1995-07-01

Collection title: National Transportation Atlas Database

Party responsible for the resource - originator: 
Organization's name: United States Census Bureau (USCB)

Themes or categories of the resource:  boundaries

Place keywords:
Keywords:  USA, National

Place keywords:
Keywords:  USA, National

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  boundaries

Thesaurus name:
Title:  ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, Administrative, Boundary, Congress, Congressional, District, 118

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Abstract:  The 118th Congressional Districts dataset reflects boundaries from January 04, 2023 from the United States Census Bureau (USCB), and the attributes are updated every Sunday from the United States House of Representatives and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). 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. Congressional districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. This dataset also includes 9 geographies for non-voting at large delegate districts, resident commissioner districts, and congressional districts that are not defined. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable. The 118th Congress is seated from January 3, 2023 through January 3, 2025. In Connecticut, Illinois, and New Hampshire, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the CDs to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no CDs defined, the code "ZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single CD for purposes of data presentation. The TIGER/Line shapefiles for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts reflect information provided to the Census Bureau by the states by August 31, 2022.

Purpose: In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Status:  completed
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  annually


Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Limitations of use: This NTAD dataset is a work of the United States government as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 and as such are not protected by any U.S. copyrights. This work is available for unrestricted public use.

Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Limitations of use: This NTAD dataset is a work of the United States government as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 and as such are not protected by any U.S. copyrights. This work is available for unrestricted public use.

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Spatial representation type:  vector

Processing environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362

Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -171.5
East longitude: -67
North latitude: 71.5
South latitude: 18.5
2023-01-04
Credits: Acknowledgment of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division; U.S. House of Representatives; and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) [distributor].

Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Organization's name: United States Census Bureau (USCB)

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 301-763-1099
Address:
Delivery point: 4600 Silver Hill Rd
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20233
Country:  US
e-mail address: geo.bas@census.gov/ geo.geography@census.gov
Aggregate Information:
Association type:  largerWorkCitation
Citation:
Title:  National Transportation Atlas Database

Reference date - publication:  2024-02-09

Party responsible for the resource - originator: 
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 2283
Code space: EPSG
Version: 5.3(9.0.0)

Data Quality Information:

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset

Lineage:
Process step:
Description: TIGER/Line Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation, state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark geographic data.

Data quality report - Completeness omission:
Measure description: Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.

Distribution Information:

Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country:  US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Format:
Format name: Open Data Catalog
Format version: 1.0
Format specification: download
File decompression technique: ZIP

Ordering process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Transfer options:
Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country:  US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Format:
Format name: Esri Feature Service
Format version: 11.1
Format specification: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/online/hosted-feature-service.htm

Ordering process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Transfer options:
Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country:  US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Format:
Format name: AZURE Cloud ArcGIS Server Vector Tile Service
Format version: 1.0
Format specification: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmts

Ordering process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Transfer options:
Format:
Format name: Feature Class

Transfer options:

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2024-03-01

Metadata contact - pointOfContact: 
Organization's name: United States Census Bureau (USCB)

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 301-763-1099
Address:
Delivery point: 4600 Silver Hill Rd
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20233
Country:  US
e-mail address: geo.bas@census.gov/ geo.geography@census.gov
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007