Description: Bay states (Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York) and Washington D.C., extracted from the 2014 cartographic boundary shapefiles from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). Boundaries extend to extent of state waters. This dataset should be used when the state land and water areas are required for analysis or depiction.
Copyright Text: U.S. Census Bureau (2014), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (2010), Chesapeake Bay Foundation (2015)