TIGER: US Census States 2018

  • The TIGER/2018/States dataset provides 2018 boundaries for the primary governmental divisions of the United States, including states and state equivalents.

  • This dataset is sourced from the United States Census Bureau and includes attributes like land area, water area, and geographic identifiers.

  • Users can access and analyze the dataset through Earth Engine using FeatureCollection and FeatureView functionalities.

  • The dataset is subject to the U.S. Census Bureau's terms of service and requires proper citation when used in publications or derived products.

  • Earth Engine offers tools for visualizing and analyzing the dataset, including code examples for creating thematic maps based on attributes like land area.
TIGER/2018/States
Dataset Availability
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z–2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("TIGER/2018/States")
FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("TIGER/2018/States_FeatureView")
Tags
census infrastructure-boundaries state states table tiger us

Description

The United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains the 2018 boundaries for the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the island areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of States for the purpose of data presentation. Each feature represents a state or state equivalent.

For full technical details on all TIGER 2018 products, see the TIGER technical documentation.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name Type Description
ALAND DOUBLE

Land area
AWATER DOUBLE

Water area
DIVISION STRING

Division code
FUNCSTAT STRING

Functional Status
GEOID STRING

State identifier; state FIPS code
INTPTLAT STRING

Internal point latitude
INTPTLON STRING

Internal point longitude
LSAD STRING

Legal/statistical area description for state
MTFCC STRING

MAF/TIGER feature class code (=G4000)
NAME STRING

State name
REGION STRING

Region code
STATEFP STRING

State FIPS code
STATENS STRING

State GNIS code
STUSPS STRING

US Postal Service state abbreviation

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

The U.S. Census Bureau offers some of its public data in machine-readable format via an Application Programming Interface (API). All of the content, documentation, code and related materials made available through the API are subject to these terms and conditions.

Citations

Citations:

  • For the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the data set, users should cite the US Census Bureau.

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.FeatureCollection('TIGER/2018/States');
var visParams = {
  palette: ['purple', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow', 'orange', 'red'],
  min: 500000000.0,
  max: 5e+11,
  opacity: 0.8,
};
var image = ee.Image().float().paint(dataset, 'ALAND');
Map.setCenter(-99.844, 37.649, 5);
Map.addLayer(image, visParams, 'TIGER/2018/States');
Map.addLayer(dataset, null, 'for Inspector', false);
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Visualize as a FeatureView

A FeatureView is a view-only, accelerated representation of a FeatureCollection. For more details, visit the FeatureView documentation.

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var fvLayer = ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer('TIGER/2018/States_FeatureView');

var visParams = {
  opacity: 0.8,
  color: {
    property: 'ALAND',
    mode: 'linear',
    palette: ['purple', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow', 'orange', 'red'],
    min: 5e8,
    max: 5e11
  }
};

fvLayer.setVisParams(visParams);
fvLayer.setName('US census states');

Map.setCenter(-99.844, 37.649, 5);
Map.add(fvLayer);
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The United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains the 2018 boundaries for the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the island areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana …
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2018-01-01T00:00:00Z/2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
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