Description: The spatial data were obtained from the US Census Bureau and are current as of 2010. The 1:500,000 US state boundaries were downloaded from the Census TIGER website and the census attributes were deleted. Attributes were further modified to include state name, state abbreviation, FIPS code, region, area information, and population. The coordinate system of this data is WGS 1984.
Copyright Text: Center for Geospatial Technology, Texas Tech University
US Census Bureau