2025 States Cartographic Boundary File

Citation

U.S. Census Bureau. 2025 Cartographic Boundary File — States and equivalents, 1:500,000.

How it is used

The integrated asset preserves the approved American Unraveling donor topology.

Used by

• The Great Map · HomeBase geography

  U.S. State detail.

• General · United States populationBase geography

  Coverage geometry for exactly 50 states plus Washington, D.C.

• The Great Map · HomeBase geography

  Clipped-shoreline coverage mask for exactly 50 states plus Washington, D.C.

• The Great Map · HomeBase geography

  Center-mask coverage for exactly 50 states plus Washington, D.C.

• The Great Map · HomeBase geography

  Fixed coverage for exactly 50 states plus Washington, D.C.

• American UnravelingBase geography

  State geometry and identities; coverage geometry for population is exactly 50 states plus Washington, D.C.