Dataset Metadata Record

Kansas City MSA, 2017

Short Description: Boundary file for Kansas City MSA

Dataset Name: KCMa_2017_MSA

Format: shp

FTP Location/Path: . . .\Unrestricted\1_SpatialLayers\1_Shapefiles\2_SummaryLevels\1_Civil\1_KCMSA

Data Type: Spatial Data

Category: Summary Level

Source: US Census - TIGER

Spatial Data Type: Vector

Summary Level: MSA

Year Dated From: 2017

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Keywords: Census

Provenance: Census file processed by CEI

Permissions: P2

XY Coordinate System:

North: 39.789327

East: -93.469986

Creation Date: May 9, 2019

Catalog Date: October 7, 2019

South: 38.021953

West: -95.194617

Created by: Neal Wilson

Cataloged By: njw2b7

Statisical Abstract / Profile: Coming later

Long Description : The 2017 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are together termed Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) and are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of the county or counties or equivalent entities associated with at least one urban core (urbanized area or urban cluster) of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with the counties containing the core. Categories of CBSAs are: Metropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urbanized areas of 50,000 or more population; and Micropolitan Statistical Areas, based on urban clusters of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000 population. The generalized boundaries in this file are based on those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census, published in 2013, and updated in 2015.