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The State feature class is the spatial representation of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Virgin Islands. The data are an extract of the Census codes and boundaries from the following Census FTP site: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/. Since the Census data do not include the coastline detail, the coastal boundaries have been included through a spatial erase using the Census Hydrography data from the Census FTP site: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2015/AREAWATER/. The State feature class is a US Forest Service Standard Reference Dataset and is the preferred spatial representation of US States. |