This dataset represents the state of Florida House district boundaries.The 2015 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. SLDL stands for State Legislative District Lower Chamber. State Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to state legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the state legislature. A unique three-character census code, identified by state participants, is assigned to each SLD within a state.The boundaries of the 2014 state legislative districts were provided by state-level participants through the RDP and reflect the districts used to elect members in or prior to the November 2014 election. The current state of Florida House representatives have been added to the attribute table; these representatives will serve from 11/07/18 - 11/03/20.
These files were specifically created to support small-scale thematic mapping. To improve the appearance of shapes at small scales, areas are represented with fewer vertices than detailed TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Cartographic boundary files take up less disk space than their ungeneralized counterparts. Cartographic boundary files take less time to render on screen than TIGER/Line Shapefiles. You can join this file with table data downloaded from American FactFinder by using the AFFGEOID field in the cartographic boundary file. If detailed boundaries are required, please use the TIGER/Line Shapefiles instead of the generalized cartographic boundary files.
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This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
Spatial and Attribute Information
In August 2016 GeoPlan downloaded the data from the U.S. Census Bureau at: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_sld.html The data was in the following geographical coordinate system: GCS_North_American_1983. During the QA/QC process GeoPlan performed the following tasks. -Projected the data to Albers Conical Equal Area [Florida Geographic Data Library] -Selected features where STATEFP = 12 to select out all Florida features and exported to a new shapefile. -Added state of Florida House representatives and party affiliation for those holding office for the current 2016 session. -Removed unpopulated fields. -Uppercased all fields. -Added DESCRIPT field based on the concatenation of "HOUSE DISTRICT" & attribute DISTRICT. -Added FGDLAQDATE field based on the date GeoPlan received the data from the source. -Renamed the dataset from cb_2015_12_sldl_500k to hdist_2016
- Updated representatives and party affiliation based on the results of the November 2018 election. - Updated SESSION and TERM fields to represent current terms. - Renamed dataset to hdist_2019
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Florida State House District number.
USCB
Name of house representative.
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Representative party affiliation.
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Approximation of counties that make up the district.
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Legislative term.
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American FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code + '00US' + GEOID.
USCB
State legislative district lower chamber identifier; a concatenation of current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code and state legislative district lower chamber code.
USCB
Current legal/statistical area description code for state legislative district (lower chamber).
State House District (prefix)
FGDL added field based on DISTRICT field.
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FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source.
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Unique ID added by GeoPlan
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Area in meters
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Perimeter in meters
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