Abstract: The State Boundary with Detailed Shorelines database was created using TIGER/LINE 2000 shapefile data gathered from ESRI's Geography Network. The individual county shapefiles were processed into Arc/Info coverages and then appended together to create complete state coverages. RITA/BTS Hydrographic data was integrated to create detailed shorelines.
Purpose: The United States State Boundaries database is a geographic database of state political boundaries. The database includes boundaries for all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.
Supplemental_Information: The RITA/BTS State Boundary Database contains TIGER 2000 geometry and attributes. To find out more about TIGER/Line files and other Census TIGER data base derived data sets visit http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger.
Field Number
Attribute
Description
Data Type
0
FID
Internal feature number.
Long Integer representing an object identifier
1
Shape
Feature geometry.
Geometry
2
STFIPS
State FIPS code
Character String
3
STATE
State name
Character String
4
STPOSTAL
U.S. Postal Service two letter state abbreviation.
