# shape of Van Buren Township

shape of Van Buren Township is a boundary representation.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8e00-7522-a582-cecafa7c78f2>

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

Location: 39.56143, -87.06892 (box -87.12479, 39.51709, -87.01306, 39.60576; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [census-tiger-feature 2025/0600000US1802178416](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8e00-7522-a582-ced5d194354e)
- `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 ((-87.124768 39.554422, -87.098264 39.554133, -87.09891 39.517992, -87.014257 39.517092, -87.013062 39.604787, -87.124237 39.605762, -87.124785 39.556225, -87.124768 39.554422)) (geo:wktLiteral)
- `geo:hasMetricArea`: 83703866 (xsd:double)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`: [evidence from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/COUSUB/tl\_2025\_18\_cousub.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0d1a3-8e00-7522-a582-cec9f2ea9e1c)
- **simplification tolerance** (`bcgeo:simplificationTolerance`): 25 (xsd:double)

## Elsewhere

- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=39.56143&mlon=-87.06892#map=14/39.56143/-87.06892) (39.56143, -87.06892)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=39.56143,-87.06892)
- [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/01a0ca47-7bae-77cd-b794-87a546eeba63)
- Geometry of (1; `geo:hasGeometry`):
  - [Van Buren Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7bae-77cd-b794-87a546eeba63)

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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/01a0d1a3-8e00-7522-a582-cecafa7c78f2
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