Description: County boundaries of the Chesapeake Bay watershed states (Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New York) and Washington D.C., extracted from the 2014 Census TIGER Database. Field Names and Definitions:Field NameField AliasDefinitionSTATEFPState FIPS codeCurrent state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS)COUNTYFPCounty FIPS codeCurrent county Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS)COUNTYNSCounty GNIS codeCurrent county Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)AFFGEOIDFactFinder IDAmerican FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code + ‘00US’+ GEOIDGEOIDCounty IDCounty identifier; a concatenation of current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code and county FIPS codeNAMENameCurrent county nameLSADLegal DescriptionCurrent legal/statistical area description code for countyALANDLand Area (m²)Current land area (square meters)AWATERWater Area (m²)Current water area (square meters)Source Data:U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Database, Cartographic Boundary shapefiles –counties (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_counties.html), 2014Processing Steps/Dates:Bay state counties were extracted from the Census data file. The data was re-projected to WGS84 UTM Zone 18N.Processing Date: 9/2015Contact Information:Chesapeake Bay Foundationkleaverton@cbf.org
Copyright Text: U.S. Census Bureau (2014), Chesapeake Bay Foundation (2015)
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)Source Data:U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Database, Cartographic boundary shapefiles - states (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_state.html), 2014Processing Steps/Dates:The Bay states were extracted from the Census data, and reprojected to WGS84 UTM Zone 18N; 9/2015Contact Information:Cheapeake Bay Foundationkleaverton@cbf.org
Copyright Text: U.S. Census Bureau (2014), Chesapeake Bay Foundation (2015)