# shape of Van Buren Township

shape of Van Buren Township is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8aa4-702d-a681-cb2186f8c3d3>

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

Location: 40.12703, -87.25267 (box -87.30054, 40.06801, -87.20481, 40.18606; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/0600000US1804578452](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8aa4-702d-a681-cb2cba462aea)
- `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 ((-87.30054 40.128009, -87.299986 40.128009, -87.299815 40.068011, -87.224136 40.068213, -87.223904 40.112094, -87.214545 40.112107, -87.214513 40.122465, -87.204806 40.122452, -87.204856 40.128007, -87.205398 40.128147, -87.205092 40.185718, -87.30053 40.186056, -87.300539 40.129165, -87.30054 40.128009)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 97167105 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUSUB/tl\_2025\_18\_cousub.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8aa3-7058-b554-6d7deed0298c)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.12703&mlon=-87.25267#map=14/40.12703/-87.25267) (40.12703, -87.25267)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.12703,-87.25267)
- [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/01a0ca47-7baf-727a-ba4a-ddac5b2a9670)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Van Buren Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7baf-727a-ba4a-ddac5b2a9670)

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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/01a0d1a3-8aa4-702d-a681-cb2186f8c3d3
Release 0.1.0-rc12, graph hash a20f66b983549f220c6f061b7e40233771a06aa47a0c0aede95a2a57ee2e9553.