Address Range Features for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana (2023)

Morehouse Parish, Louisiana address range features for 2023, extracted from the U.S. Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER Database. This shapefile contains geospatial edge geometry and attributes for all unsuppressed address ranges, including potential structure numbers along street edges. The data is part of the national TIGER/Line series and is designed to stand alone or be combined with other county files.

Use Cases

• Geocode addresses by matching house numbers to potential ranges defined by From House Number and To House Number fields.
• Analyze street network structure using Permanent Edge Id and Side Indicator Flag to model address parity along edges.
• Join demographic or economic data to Morehouse Parish using County Fips Code and State Fips Code as geographic keys.
• Validate or supplement address data for routing applications by referencing 5-digit zip code and Zip 4 Code fields.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative U.S. Census Bureau MAF/TIGER Database, ensuring national consistency.
• Contains detailed address range attributes including From House Number, To House Number, and side-specific indicators.
• Part of a seamless national file system where county shapefiles can be combined for broader geographic coverage.

Limitations

• Contains potential address ranges, not actual individual addresses, which may not reflect existing structures.
• Single-address ranges are suppressed for confidentiality, creating gaps in address-level detail.
• Lacks explicit row and column counts, making dataset scale and specific feature volume unknown.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

2023 data, last updated on the platform in August 2025.

Geography

Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States.