U.S. Census Feature Class Codes (table)
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- Originator: Department of Commerce, Census Bureau
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- Publication_Date: 20080401
- Title: U.S. Census Feature Class Codes (table)
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U.S. Census Feature Class Codes (table) represents the United States Census Bureau feature classifications. The Census feature class codes (also called FCC) are used in many data sets.
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U.S. Census Feature Class Codes (table) displays Census feature class codes attributes. Join this table to any table with FCC or CFCC attributes as the common field.
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- Originator: Department of Commerce, Census Bureau
- Publication_Date: 2000
- Title: Census Feature Class Codes (table)
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- Publication_Place: USA
- Publisher: Department of Commerce, Census Bureau
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The Census Feature Class Codes (table) is derived from the Census 2000 TIGER/Line 2000 documentation.
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- Originator: Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
- Publication_Date: 20031024
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Tele Atlas Feature Class Codes is part of Tele Atlas Product Documentation (Documentation on CD–ROM) under Reference Documents.
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The following steps were performed by ESRI for Data & Maps 2002: Updated the table from the Census 2000 TIGER/Line® documentation.
The following steps were performed by ESRI: Extracted data set from Department of Commerce, Census Bureau media. Converted from delimited text file format to dBASE® file format.
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The following steps were performed by ESRI: Updated the table to include all codes found in the Tele Atlas Feature Class Code (FCC) list. No codes were removed.
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The following steps were performed by ESRI: Summarized on the CFCC attribute to create a file of unique CFCC codes sorted on the CFCC attribute and then joined back the DESCRIPT attribute. Converted the data set to SDC.
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The table represents the United States Census Bureau feature classifications.
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Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
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The Census feature class code. The code is three characters; the first character is a letter describing the feature class; the second character is a number describing the major category; and the third character is a number describing the minor category.
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