Census county boundary files

Simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the Census Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here. Home US Census Bureau, Metadata Updated: November 12, License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U. Government Work. Visit page. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than , These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.

Bureau of Census. Maps scanned from the paper maps in the MSU Library:. US Department of Commerce. State of Michigan. Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Lansing, MI: The Department. Title of map, dates. Race, Percent Black, Census Bureau; accessed 17 November, This is a small part of the tract map of Ingham County, Michigan from the census. You can see that north neighborhood is grouped with the Brody complex, except Mason-Abbot and Snyder-Phillips are in their own tract.

River Trail neighborhood is in its own tract, and Holmes is with East Neighborhood. South neighborhood is in its own tract. River Trail neighborhood is grouped with East Neighborhood. South neighborhood is part of a much larger tract that includes non residential areas of south campus. This map shows tracts on the MSU main campus from It looks quite similar to the map. This map shows how the tracts were divided in Physical changes in street patterns caused by highway construction, new development, and so forth, may require boundary revisions.

In addition, census tracts occasionally are split due to population growth, or combined as a result of substantial population decline. Census tract boundaries generally follow visible and identifiable features. They may follow legal boundaries such as minor civil division MCD or incorporated place boundaries in some states and situations to allow for census tract-to-governmental unit relationships where the governmental boundaries tend to remain unchanged between censuses.

State and county boundaries always are census tract boundaries in the standard census geographic hierarchy.