Unified School Districts, North Dakota, 2000

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Abstract
This polygon shapefile represents the unified school district boundaries in North Dakota. School districts are geographic entities within which state, county, or local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The unified school districts are districts that provide education to children of all school ages. The elementary school districts provide education to the lower grade/age levels and the secondary school districts provide education to the upper grade/age levels. In general, where there is a unified school district, no elementary or secondary school district exists and where there is an elementary school district, the secondary school district may or may not exist. School districts are geographic entities within which state, county, or local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The U.S. Census Bureau obtains the boundaries and names for school districts from state officials. The U.S. Census Bureau first provided data for school districts in the 1970 census. For Census 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau tabulated data for three types of school districts: elementary, secondary, and unified. Each school district is assigned a five-digit code that is unique within state. School district codes are assigned by the Department of Education and are not necessarily in alphabetical order by school district name.
Purpose
This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Shapefile
Extent 0.442
Place Washington, D.C., US
Publisher U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division
Publication date 2001
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data 1:100000Scale not given. ; EPSG::4269 W 104°2ʹ56ʺ--W 96°33ʹ16ʺ/N 49°2ʺ--N 45°56ʹ6ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division

Subjects

Subject School districts
Subject High schools
Subject Middle schools
Subject Junior high schools
Subject Elementary schools
Subject North Dakota
Subject 2000
Subject Boundaries
Subject Society
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

WGS84 Cartographics This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/hq123kd4084

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This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
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Preferred citation

Preferred citation
U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division. (2001). Unified School Districts, North Dakota, 2000. U.S. Census Bureau. Geography Division. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/hq123kd4084.

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U.S. Census School Districts, 2000

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