Description: The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The TIGER/Line Files include both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated places or CDPs (statistical entities). An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a State, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the State in which they are located. The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in partnership with State, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size requirement for CDPs for the 2010 Census is that they must contain some housing and population. The boundaries of all 2010 Census incorporated places are as of January 1, 2010 as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The boundaries of all 2010 Census CDPs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP).
Description: This data was created as part of the Missouri Aquatic Gap Project. Ecological Drainage Units (EDUs) are largely zoogeographic substrata of Subregions. EDUs were empirically derived and represent fairly large watersheds or subdrainages (approx 2,500-10,000 mi²) containing aquatic assemblages that are relatively distinct within the context of the surrounding Subregion. Our EDUs are quite similar to the faunal divisions of Pflieger's Aquatic Community Classification for Missouri (Pflieger 1989). We decided not to simply adopt these faunal divisions for two important reasons. First, Pflieger utilized 1,608 community fish samples to generate the constancy/fidelity indices he used to delineate his faunal divisions. We had at our disposal those same 1,608 samples plus nearly 1,000 additional samples. Second, we had assembled 1,000's of collection records for 3 other taxa (crayfish, mussels, and snails) that we believed should be included in any effort to delineate zoogeographic subunits of our three Aquatic Subregions.
Description: Geo-dataset delineating the physiographic regions of Missouri., Geo-dataset delineating the physiographic regions of Missouri.
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Copyright Text: Missouri Spatial Data Information Service, Department of Geography, University of Missouri - Columbia., Missouri Spatial Data Information Service, Department of Geography, University of Missouri - Columbia.