State Legislative Districts - Upper Houses

State Legislative Districts - Upper Houses This feature layer, utilizing National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) data from the U.S. Census Bureau (USCB), displays State Legislative Districts (SLDs) in the upper houses of state legislatures in the United States. According to the USCB, "SLDs are the areas from which members are elected to state legislatures. They embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of a state legislature. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia has a single council, both of which the Census Bureau treats as upper-chamber legislative areas for data presentation; there are no data by lower houses for either Nebraska or the District of Columbia". Georgia's State Senate District 1 and South Carolina's State District 46 Data currency: This cached Esri federal service is checked weekly for updates from its enterprise federal source (2024 State Legislative Districts - Upper) and will support mapping, analysis, data exports and OGC API – Feature access. NGDAID: 92 (Series Information for State Legislative District (SLD) Upper Chamber State-based TIGER/Line Shapefiles, Current) OGC API Features Link: (State Legislative Districts - Upper Houses - OGC Features) copy this link to embed it in OGC Compliant viewers For more information, please visit: 2018 State Legislative District Reference Maps For feedback please contact: [e-mail] NGDA Data Set This data set is part of the NGDA Governmental Units, and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme Community. Per the Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC), this theme is defined as the "boundaries that delineate geographic areas for uses such as governance and the general provision of services (e.g., states, American Indian reservations, counties, cities, towns, etc.), administration and/or for a specific purpose (e.g., congressional districts, school districts, fire districts, Alaska Native Regional Corporations, etc.), and/or provision of statistical data (census tracts, census blocks, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, etc.). Boundaries for these various types of geographic areas are either defined through a documented legal description or through criteria and guidelines. Other boundaries may include international limits, those of federal land ownership, the extent of administrative regions for various federal agencies, as well as the jurisdictional offshore limits of U.S. sovereignty. Boundaries associated solely with natural resources and/or cultural entities are excluded from this theme and are included in the appropriate subject themes." For other NGDA Content: Esri Federal Datasets