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Social Explorer

provides help in using the database

Shapefiles are not available directly in Social Explorer

Some guidance for matching extracted data files to shapefiles obtained elsewhere is available from the following:

Getting data into ArcMap
Explanation from a UCLA School of Public Affairs course about getting matching boundary data to go with Social Explorer data
Downloading Census Data & TIGER Line Files (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)

National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)

National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010