# shape of Whatcom County

shape of Whatcom County is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d19d-19b4-7567-872e-7dad207c5126>

Type: [geo:Geometry](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Geometry), [boundary representation](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/BoundaryRepresentation)

Location: 48.81405, -121.98905 (box -123.32224, 48.62569, -120.65586, 49.00242; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/0500000US53073](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d19d-19b5-752c-888e-b5230165d8dd)
- `dcterms:date`: 2025-01-01 (xsd:date)
- `dcterms:source`: [Census TIGER/Line 2025: counties and equivalents](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d19b-d5fa-7406-800f-d1f1a5aa3b16)
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48.645066, -122.217251 48.645692, -122.094685 48.645209)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 6487595351 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUNTY/tl\_2025\_us\_county.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d19d-19b4-7567-872e-7dac663c817d)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=48.81405&mlon=-121.98905#map=14/48.81405/-121.98905) (48.81405, -121.98905)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.81405,-121.98905)
- [Source](https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUNTY/tl_2025_us_county.zip) (www2.census.gov)

## Pointing here

- Default geometry of (1; `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`):
  - [Whatcom County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5a40-7039-92e9-8ea5cd6b8f56)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Whatcom County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5a40-7039-92e9-8ea5cd6b8f56)

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Cite as: shape of Whatcom County. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d19d-19b4-7567-872e-7dad207c5126
Release 0.1.0-rc12, graph hash a20f66b983549f220c6f061b7e40233771a06aa47a0c0aede95a2a57ee2e9553.
