Geopolitical Theme

Geopolitical data includes administrative and governmental boundaries for counties, the state, census blocks and school districts. Administrative data define data related to the jurisdiction of local governments. Political refers specifically to the electoral process.
 
The study of physical, economic, and anthropogenic features as factors affecting government policies uses geopolitical data. Unlike political geography, which deals with static conditions, geopolitical geography is dynamic, regarding the State as an organism that grows and develops.
 
For more information about how the Catalog Theme pages work, descriptions of download file formats, and so on refer to the Catalog Tips.
You will find that not everything works for every data layer in these listings. Our efforts at documenting, indexing, and distributing data are a work in progress. Although we cannot currently provide all the information you need to locate all data on this server, we will try to provide as much as possible at any given stage of a project.

The availability of the buttons on this page is a function of

1. The state of completion of documentation and data packaging for any given layer. The Catalog and the Clearinghouse will probably never be complete, but as we finish documentation for existing data sets, and for those that result from ongoing research projects we will add as much information to these pages as we can at various stages.
2. Our ability to distribute the data or the documentation. CAST does not 'own' all the data sets that reside in our warehouse. However we want to provide as much information to the public about these data sets as we can.

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