tigris (version 1.6)

linear_water: Download an linear water shapefile into R

Description

From the US Census Bureau: "The linear hydrography shapefile contains all linear features with "H" (Hydrography) type MTFCCs in the MAF/TIGER database by county. The shapefiles are provided at a county geographic extent and in linear elemental feature geometry. The linear hydrography shapefile includes streams/rivers, braided streams, canals, ditches, artificial paths, and aqueducts. A linear hydrography feature may include edges with both perennial and intermittent persistence."

Usage

linear_water(state, county, year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

state

The two-digit FIPS code of the state of the county you'd like to download the water features for. Can also be state name or abbreviation (case-insensitive).

county

The three-digit FIPS code of the county you'd like the water features for. Can also be a county name.

year

the data year (defaults to 2020).

...

arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported. Options include class, which can be set to "sf" (the default) or "sp" to request sf or sp class objects, and refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE).

See Also

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2020/TGRSHP2020_TechDoc.pdf

Other water functions: area_water(), coastline()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(tigris)

dallas_water <- linear_water("TX", "Dallas")

plot(dallas_water$geometry)

# }