< Geometry Library

United States

A local United States geography candidate joining the Census administrative spine to postal, Indigenous, weather, and place sidechains plus maintained correspondence evidence.

USA Release 0.1.0 Unpublished Local Candidate

What this country release covers

One maintained release connects persistent place identity, display-ready map geometry, and exact query representations without treating them as interchangeable files.

Identities8,587,051
Identity versions0
Aliases0
Relationships40,204,209
Reference families28
Identities with shapes0

Release architecture

Canonical country release usa_reference_graph_0_1_0_candidate
local_candidate bucket

Processed reference graph

Cloud and local identity, alias, hierarchy, and cross-reference queries.

72.7 KB source bytes · 6 artifacts
local_candidate bucket

Simplified display geometry

Interactive app and map display; not authoritative for exact containment.

138 MB source bytes · 1 artifacts
local_candidate bucket

Exact query geometry

Precise boundary retrieval, measurement, and containment.

- source bytes · artifacts
local_candidate bucket

Exact predicate representation

Memory-bounded local point lookup and containment execution.

- source bytes · artifacts

Administrative hierarchy

Admin Country
Admin 1State or equivalent
Admin 2County or equivalent
Admin 3Census tract
Admin 4Block group
Admin 5Census block

Available geography families

A family is a recurring kind of geographic reference system. Only the selected complete hierarchy is the administrative spine; postal, electoral, health, watershed, and other systems remain independently versioned sidechains connected to it.

Graph Admitted

Administrative spine

The one selected country hierarchy whose levels tile, nest, and cover their declared extent.

Examples: states, provinces, counties, municipalities, census units
Graph Admitted

Postal areas

Operational delivery regions or statistical approximations of postal geography, kept distinct by subtype and release.

Examples: postal codes, FSAs, ZIPs, ZCTAs
Graph Admitted

Indigenous lands and regions

Authority-defined Indigenous lands, settlement areas, treaty regions, and organization geographies without inferring legal status from overlap.

Examples: reserve lands, treaty areas, Inuit regions
Graph Admitted

Weather zones

Persistent operational forecast, warning, marine, and fire-weather regions with explicit release and effective periods.

Examples: forecast zones, fire-weather zones, marine forecast zones
Graph Admitted

Cities, places, and municipalities

Authority-defined cities, towns, municipalities, settlements, and other place systems, including their boundaries when they sit outside the selected administrative spine.

Examples: cities, towns, municipalities, incorporated and census-designated places

Local download packages

The first release uses three standalone ZIP recipes so their real compressed sizes and installation behavior can be measured. A package appears as downloadable only after artifact and public-reachability QA passes.

local

United States Local Reference Candidate

Local reference-graph indexes and Census display spine; not a promoted download.

usa-reference-local
138 MB estimated source payloadPackaging and QA in progress

Release QA

  • The adopted local Census spine has complete Admin 0-5 parent closure.
  • Postal, Indigenous, weather, and place shapes use the pinned country area-depth profile.
  • Electoral, school, urban, metro, and historical holdings remain typed correspondence evidence until independent geometry families are admitted.
  • The reference graph is local and unpublished.

Source authorities

U.S. Census BureauNOAA National Weather Service