U.S. ZIP Code Points represents the five-digit U.S. ZIP Code areas as points by placing their location using delivery-based centroids, plus all ZIP Codes that have no area and are represented as points rather than areas such as post office box ZIP Codes and unique ZIP Codes (single site, building, or organization).
U.S. ZIP Code Points provides the post office name, types, and area for each ZIP Code location in the United States.
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The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDE® to verify and validate the geometry.
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
The geospatial part of this data set was extracted from many sources. Most locations are based on Census 2000 TIGER/Line® files, processed to improve their accuracy and then placed as points based on the actual distribution of deliveries within each ZIP code polygon. Due to the different sources and methods used, the horizontal accuracy is unknown.
Attribute and geospatial data
Attribute data
Delivery-Based Centroids Oftentimes the distribution of postal deliveries is not evenly spread across a 5-digit ZIP code area, but is concentrated in one corner of the polygon. Delivery-based centroids were developed to express the actual distribution of deliveries within a ZIP code polygon. Delivery-based centroids may be thought of as a "delivery" weighted centroid. When delivery information is unavailable for particular ZIP code polygon, the Tele Atlas Delivery-based centroid will show the geographic centroid. Point ZIP Codes There are many 5-digit ZIP Codes that have no area and are represented as points rather than polygons. These ZIP Codes appear as dots on a map with no area and, therefore, no boundaries. These ZIP Codes have no geographic extent defined in terms of street segments, or that correspond to geography not defined in any Postal Service data files. Examples of point ZIP Codes include Post Office box ZIP Codes, RPOs and Unique ZIP Codes (single site, building or organization).
The following steps were performed by ESRI: Extracted data set from Tele Atlas Dynamap/Census Boundaries v. 7.0. Removed unnecessary attributes and reformatted the rest. Added attributes POP2005, POP05_SQMI, and SQMI by joining to 2006 U.S. ZIP Code Areas (Five-Digit) and calculated their values to "-99" where there were no matches. In cases where there are two points for a ZIP Code because it falls in two states, calculated their values to "-99" in attributes POP2005, POP05_SQMI, and SQMI for the point in the state with the smallest area. Converted the data set to SDC. Created ArcGIS® layer file (.lyr), projection file (.prj), and spatial indices.
Internal feature number.
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Feature geometry.
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The five-digit number used by the postal service to identify a location where mail is delivered.
United States Postal Service
The five-digit ZIP Code of the area that encloses a ZIP Code point (if present) which has no geographic extent defined in terms of street segments, or which corresponds to geography not defined in any Postal Service data files.
Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
The two-letter abbreviation for the state in which the ZIP Code point is located.
United States Postal Service
The post office name.
United States Postal Service
The type of post office facility.
United States Postal Service
The FIPS code for the first county in which the ZIP Code is located.
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The FIPS code for the second county in which the ZIP Code is located.
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The FIPS code for the third county in which the ZIP Code is located.
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Residential Post Office (post office with mostly residential post office box customers) indicator.
United States Postal Service
This ZIP Code is a Residential Post Office.
Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
This ZIP Code is not a Residential Post Office.
Tele Atlas North America, Inc.
The type of ZIP Code.
United States Postal Service
The 2005 estimated population of the ZIP Code area the point is based on.
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Data not available.
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The 2005 estimated population per square mile of the ZIP Code area the point is based on.
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Data not available.
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The area of the ZIP Code area the point is based on in square miles using Albers Equal Area Projection.
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Data not available.
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The SDC file contains the geospatial and attribute data. The SDI file contains the spatial index. The PRJ file contains the coordinate system information (optional). The XML file (*.sdc.xml) contains the metadata describing the data set (optional).
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