Column Name: CENSUS_BLOCK_CODE

Description: The smallest entity for which the Census Bureau collects and tabulates decennial census information; bounded on all sides by visible and nonvisible features shown on Census Bureau maps.

Envirofacts Table Name: FRS_FACILITY_SITE

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Properties:

Type: Character
Length: 15
Optional

Definition Source: U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER, Glossary of Geographic Terms, http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/glossary.html.

Remarks: The Census Block code is defined by a concatenation of the FIPS codes of its parent state, county, tract, and block group with its own FIPS code (State + County + Tract + BlockGroup + Block).

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