U.S. Census Shapefiles
- TIGER/Line Shapefiles This link opens in a new windowspatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas.
(TIGER = Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing)
Geographic Areas Reference Manual
- Geographic Areas Reference Manual (GARM) (U.S. Census)Call Number: UCF Main Library - U.S. Documents C 3.6/2:G 29/4ch2ck availability of print version
"The Geographic Areas Reference Manual (GARM) describes in great detail the basic geographic entities the Census Bureau used in its various data tabulations for the 1990 Census and documents the purposes, definitions, standards, criteria, and procedures used to select, define, delineate, and revise those geographic entities."
GIS Directories and Related Links
- GIS Data Depot"Please note that data available from this site requires users to be proficient in GIS and may require access to GIS software. Numerous data holdings are available for free download" and other data is available for purchase
- Geospatial and Attribute Links (University of Arkansas)"U. S. resources are listed by state or by nation-wide collections . If you don't find what you need under a particular state, try the national data aggregations, which often have data at the state or county levels."