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). Field Names and Definitions:Field NameField AliasDefinitionSTATEFPFIPS codeCurrent state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) codeSTATENSGINS codeCurrent state Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) codeAFFGEOIDAFF codeAmerican FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code + '00US' + GEOIDGEOIDState IDState identifier; state FIPS codeSTUSPSPostal Service Abbrev.Current United States Postal Service state abbreviationNAMEState NameCurrent State NameLSADLegal AreaCurrent legal/statistical area description code for stateALANDLand AreaCurrent land area (square meters)AWATERWater AreaCurrent water area (square meters)Processing Steps/Dates:The Bay states were extracted from the Census data, and reprojected to WGS84 UTM Zone 18N; 9/2015
Copyright Text: Source Data:
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Database, Cartographic boundary shapefiles - states (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_state.html), 2014
Processing:
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 2015
Contact Information:
Cheapeake Bay Foundation
kleaverton@cbf.org