Description: This dataset contains cemetery locations represented by point features located in the approximate center of each cemetery where determined. Cemetery names were added where locations matched MOCA information. Cemeteries that were included in US Board of Geographic Names (GNIS) were also used as well as digital parcel data coded as Cemetery. Cemetery submissions are accepted from the public and through the Maine Cemetery Viewer. http://www.maine.gov/megis/maps/
Copyright Text: Maine Old Cemetery Association,
Maine Office of GIS
Description: BLKS00 contains Census 2000 Block boundaries and population by blocks for the state of Maine at 1:100,000 scale. Census Block boundaries are statistical subdivisions of counties for the reporting of decennial census data. The Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files are the primary source for this data set.
Description: Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However, census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.
Copyright Text: Maine Office of GIS, US Census Bureau
Description: Block Groups (BGs) are defined before tabulation block delineation and numbering, but are clusters of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, Census 2000 tabulation blocks 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within Census 2000 tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. Census 2000 BGs generally contained between 600 and 3,000 people, with an optimum size of 1,500 people. Most BGs were delineated by local participants in the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). The Census Bureau delineated BGs only where the PSAP participant declined to delineate BGs or where the Census Bureau could not identify any local PSAP participant. A BG usually covers a contiguous area. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tract. Within the standard census geographic hierarchy, BGs never cross county or census tract boundaries, but may cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs coded 0 were intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. For Census 2000, rather than extending a census tract boundary into the Great Lakes or out to the U.S. nautical three-mile limit, the Census Bureau delineated some census tract boundaries along the shoreline or just offshore. The Census Bureau assigned a default census tract number of 0 and BG of 0 to these offshore, water-only areas not included in regularly numbered census tract areas.
Copyright Text: Maine Office of GIS, US Census Bureau
Description: Tracts00 was created to facilitate mapping, analysis, and use of Census 2000 data with other Maine GIS data layers. Other Census 2000 data layers depict the various levels of Census 2000 geography. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county or equivalent entity. The Census Bureau delineated the census tracts in situations where no local participant existed or where all the potential participants declined to participate.
Description: The Maine Constitution requires the Legislature to reapportion districts every ten years, using the most recent census data. The State of Maine has typically done this the 3rd year following the Census. This dataset indicates the result of the 2013 reapportionment for the County Commissioners.These data are derived primarily from the Maine towns boundary dataset to indicate the County Commissioners districts starting with the 127th Legislature. Since many districts are defined by census tracts and blocks, where these boundaries split up towns, the lines from the census data were used to do so. These districts become public law on October 9, 2013, but the legislation specifically delays the implementation of these districts until the 127th Legislature (Dec 3 2014).These data are based on 1:24,000 base data and will inherit the resulting spatial inaccuracies of the source data. These data are intended for mapping at scales suitable for 1:24,000 scale and are not intended to be a ground survey of precise boundaries. Typically boundaries follow town lines, or roads or water features. In some cases these lines may have have slight variations from the actual features which delineate the district.
Description: HOUSE03 contains Maine House of Representative Districts established by the Maine Legislature. Legislation, Chapter 289 of the Public Laws of 2003, was enacted by the 121st Legislature and signed by the Governor on May 23, 2003
Description: The Maine Constitution requires the Legislature to reapportion legislative districts every ten years, using the most recent census data. The State of Maine has typically done this the 3rd year following the Census. This dataset indicates the result of the 2013 reapportionment for the House of Representatives.These data are derived primarily from the Maine towns boundary dataset to indicate the House of Representatives districts starting with the 127th Legislature. Since many districts are defined by census tracts and blocks, where these boundaries split up towns, the lines from the census data were used to do so. These districts become public law on October 9, 2013, but the legislation specifically delays the implementation of these districts until the 127th Legislature (Dec 3 2014).These data are based on 1:24,000 base data and will inherit the resulting spatial inaccuracies of the source data. These data are intended for mapping at scales suitable for 1:24,000 scale and are not intended to be a ground survey of precise boundaries. Typically boundaries follow town lines, or roads or water features. In some cases these lines may have have slight variations from the actual features which delineate the legislative district.
Name: Minor Civil Division/Census County Division 2010
Display Field: NAME10
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: County subdivisions are the primary divisions of counties and their equivalent entities for the reporting of Census Bureau data, and they include legally minor civil divisions (MCDs) and statistical census county divisions (CCDs), and unorganized territories. For the 2010 Census, the legal MCDs are the primary governmental and/or administrative divisions of counties in 29 States and Puerto Rico; Tennessee changed from having CCDs for Census 2000 to having MCDs for the 2010 Census. In MCD States where no MCD exists or is not defined, the Census Bureau creates statistical unorganized territories to complete coverage. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas is covered by county subdivisions. The boundaries of all 2010 Census legal MCDs are as of January 1, 2010 as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). For the 2010 Census, CCDs or their equivalents are delineated in 21 States. The boundaries of all 2010 Census statistical CCDs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP).
Description: Senate depicts Maine State Senate District boundaries at 1:24,000 scale based on the Senate03 (1:100,000) dataset depicting the districts established by apportionment July 2, 2003
Description: SENATE03 contains Maine State Senate Districts established by apportionment July 2, 2003, Final Order Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The dataset, in accordance with the apportionment, depicts district boundaries using US Census Bureau TIGER/Line Files 2000 mapped at 1:100,000. These districts are in effect for candidates participating in the June 8, 2004 Primary Election and November 2, 2004 General Election.
Description: The Maine Constitution requires the Legislature to reapportion legislative districts every ten years, using the most recent census data. The State of Maine has typically done this the 3rd year following the Census. This dataset indicates the result of the 2013 reapportionment for the Senate.These data are derived primarily from the Maine towns boundary dataset to indicate the Senate districts starting with the 127th Legislature. Since many districts are defined by census tracts and blocks, where these boundaries split up towns, the lines from the census data were used to do so. These districts become public law on October 9, 2013, but the legislation specifically delays the implementation of these districts until the 127th Legislature (Dec 3 2014).These data are based on 1:24,000 base data and will inherit the resulting spatial inaccuracies of the source data. These data are intended for mapping at scales suitable for 1:24,000 scale and are not intended to be a ground survey of precise boundaries. Typically boundaries follow town lines, or roads or water features. In some cases these lines may have have slight variations from the actual features which delineate the legislative district.
Description: CNGRSS03 has been published as a Maine GIS layer to provide a digital copy of Maine's apportioned electoral districts to all Maine GIS users. The dataset is suitable for use with Maine GIS data derived from TIGER/Line Files 2000, i.e. BLKS00, MCDCCD00 and US Census Bureau data.
Description: VTD00 contains Census 2000 Voting District boundaries for Maine at 1:100,000 scale. Voting districts are subdivisions of counties for the reporting of decennial census data. These county divisions are of two functional types: legal and statistical. The Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files are the primary data source for VTD00.
Description: Voting districts for Maine are provided in order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.