Dataset Metadata Record

Short Description: Shapefile describing the 5 US Congressional districts of the Kansas City Metropolitian area.

Dataset Name: KCMa_2016_CONGRESS

Format: shp

FTP Location/Path: . . .\Unrestricted\1_SpatialLayers\1_Shapefiles\2_SummaryLevels\2_Political\1_USCongressDs

Spatial Data Type: Vector

Summary Level: US Congressional

Keywords: Congressional District

Provenance: Compiled from census files that were downloaded from: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/carto-boundary-file.html

Permissions: P1

South: 36.998665

West: -96.806626

Created by: Neal Wilson

Cataloged By: Neal Wilson

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. Congressional Districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 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 115th Congress is seated from January 2017 to 2019. The cartographic boundary files 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 May 1, 2016, and were in effect during the November 2016 election.