# shape of Van Buren Township

shape of Van Buren Township is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-89f4-7201-87b1-7f6b26f3c67f>

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

Location: 41.72808, -85.57187 (box -85.65981, 41.69690, -85.48394, 41.75927; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/0600000US1808778506](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-89f5-712e-a5f1-685cf9237a4e)
- `dcterms:date`: 2025-01-01 (xsd:date)
- `dcterms:source`: [Census TIGER/Line 2025: county subdivisions, state 18](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-27b7-71ee-b41a-bedbaf1005cc)
- `geo:asWKT`: <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS83> POLYGON ((-85.658614 41.6969, -85.624976 41.696986, -85.590832 41.697522, -85.573526 41.697233, -85.532535 41.698556, -85.526348 41.698358, -85.483935 41.698971, -85.484857 41.710848, -85.486638 41.759266, -85.65975 41.759068, -85.659808 41.755674, -85.658614 41.6969)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 98698340 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUSUB/tl\_2025\_18\_cousub.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-89f4-7201-87b1-7f6a7c7fc80b)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.72808&mlon=-85.57187#map=14/41.72808/-85.57187) (41.72808, -85.57187)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.72808,-85.57187)
- [Source](https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUSUB/tl_2025_18_cousub.zip) (www2.census.gov)

## Pointing here

- Default geometry of (1; `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`):
  - [Van Buren Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7229-7386-8a10-a19275f16f0b)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Van Buren Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7229-7386-8a10-a19275f16f0b)

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Cite as: shape of Van Buren Township. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-89f4-7201-87b1-7f6b26f3c67f
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