shp_all_us_states: Shapefiles detailing the states of the USA, designed for...

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

An "sf" "data.frame" representing counties of the United States of America with 20m = 1:20,000,000 resolution, from www.census.gov.

Usage

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Format

Simple feature collection with 56 features and 14 fields

state.fips

State FIP code

state.short.name

Two-character short name for state

state.name

State name

state.ns

GNIS ID for State

a.land

Area of state that is land, m2

a.water

Area of state that is water, m2

aff.geo.id

American Fact Finder Geo ID

geoid

Unknown identifier from Census

congressional.session

Congressional session (all identical)

contiguous.united.states

Is a member of the contiguous US? TRUE/FALSE

is.state

Is this Congressional District part of a recognised State? TRUE/ FALSE

state.region

Region the parent state belongs to

state.divison

Division the parent state belongs to

geometry

MULTIPOLYGON, defines the border of the Congressional District

Source

http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2016/shp/cb_2016_us_county_20m.zip

Examples

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## Filter out only states from the contiguous US
library("dplyr")
shp_contiguous_us_states <- shp_all_us_states %>%
 filter(contiguous.united.states)

statesRcontiguous documentation built on Aug. 7, 2017, 5:03 p.m.