Places Cartographic Boundary Files Descriptions and Metadata - U.S. Census Bureau

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Cartographic Boundary Files
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Cartographic Boundary Files Descriptions and Metadata
Geographic Area Descriptions
Metadata
Boundary File Titles
2000 Incorporated Places/Census Designated
Places
1998
Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places
1990
Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places
2000 Consolidated Cities
Geographic Area Description
Census Designated Place
Consolidated City
Incorporated
Place
General Description
Places, for the reporting
of decennial census data, include census
designated places, consolidated cities, and incorporated places.
Each place is assigned
a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code in
alphabetical order within each state.
Census Designated Place
Census designated places
(CDPs) are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts
of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled
concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not
legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located.
The boundaries usually are defined in cooperation with local or tribal
officials. These boundaries, which usually coincide with visible features
or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or other legal entity
boundary, have no legal status, nor do these places have officials elected
to serve traditional municipal functions. CDP boundaries may change
from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement
pattern; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily
have the same boundary.
There are no population
size requirements for the CDPs designated in conjunction with Census
2000. For the 1990 census and earlier censuses, the U.S. Census Bureau
required CDPs to qualify on the basis of various minimum population
size criteria.
Beginning with the 1950
census, the U.S. Census Bureau, in cooperation with state and local
governments (and American Indian tribal officials starting with the
1990 census), identified and delineated boundaries and names for CDPs.
In the data products issued in conjunction with Census 2000, the name
of each such place is followed by "CDP," as was the case for the 1990
and 1980 censuses. In the data products issued in conjunction with the
1950, 1960, and 1970 censuses, these places were identified by "(U),"
meaning "unincorporated place."
Hawaii is the only state
that has no incorporated places recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau.
All places shown in the data products for Hawaii are CDPs. By agreement
with the state of Hawaii, the U.S. Census Bureau does not show data
separately for the city of Honolulu, which is coextensive with Honolulu
County.
There are no incorporated
places in Puerto Rico; instead, the U.S. Census Bureau provides decennial
census data for two types of census designated places (CDPs): (1) zonas
urbanas, representing the governmental center of each municipio and
(2) comunidades, representing other settlements. For Census 2000, there
are no minimum population size requirements for CDPs. (For the 1990
census, the U.S. Census Bureau had required comunidades to have at least
1,000 people.)
Each CDP is assigned a
five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code, based
on the alphabetical order of the CDP name within each state. If CDP
names are duplicated within a state and they represent distinctly different
areas, a separate code is assigned to each CDP name alphabetically by
primary county in which each place is located.
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Geographic Area Descriptions
Metadata
Consolidated City
A consolidated government
is a unit of local government for which the functions of an incorporated
place and its county or minor civil division (MCD) have merged. The
legal aspects of this action may result in both the primary incorporated
place and the county or MCD continuing to exist as legal entities, even
though the county or MCD performs few or no governmental functions and
has few or no elected officials. Where this occurs, and where one or
more other incorporated places in the county or MCD continue to function
as separate governments, even though they have been included in the
consolidated government, the primary incorporated place is referred
to as a "consolidated city."
The presentation of data
for consolidated cities varies depending on the geographic presentation.
In some hierarchical presentations, consolidated cities are not shown.
These presentations include the incorporated places within the consolidated
city and the "consolidated city (balance)." Although hierarchical
presentations do not show the consolidated city, the data for it are
the same as the county or county subdivision with which it is coextensive.
Other hierarchical presentations do not show the consolidated city,
county or county subdivision, and (balance) as separate entities.
For inventory geographic
presentations, the consolidated city appears at the end of the listing
of places. The data for the consolidated city include the data for all
places that are part of and within the consolidated city. The "consolidated
city (balance)" entry shows the data for the portion of the consolidated
government minus the incorporated places, and is shown in alphabetical
sequence with other places that comprise the consolidated city. For
statistical purposes, these entities are treated as statistically equivalent
to a place and have no legal basis or functions.
In summary presentations
by size of place, the consolidated city is not included. The places
within consolidated cities are categorized by their size, as is the
"consolidated city (balance)." A few incorporated places are partially
inside and partially outside a consolidated city. Data tabulations by
incorporated place will include all territory within the incorporated
place, while the tabulation for the incorporated place within a consolidated
city is only for part of the incorporated place.
Each consolidated city
is assigned a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
code that is unique within state. The incorporated places and the "consolidated
city (balance)" also are assigned five-digit FIPS place codes that are
unique within state. The code assigned to each incorporated place within
a consolidated city is the same as its regular incorporated place code;
an incorporated place that is partially included in a consolidated city
does not have a different code for the portions inside and outside the
consolidated city. FIPS codes are assigned based on alphabetical sequence
within each state.
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Geographic Area Descriptions
Metadata
Incorporated Place
Incorporated places recognized
in decennial census data products are those reported to the U.S. Census
Bureau as legally in existence on January 1, 2000, under the laws of
their respective states, as cities, boroughs, towns, and villages, with
the following exceptions: the towns in the New England states, New York,
and Wisconsin, and the boroughs in New York are recognized as minor
civil divisions for statistical purposes; the boroughs in Alaska are
county equivalents for decennial census statistical presentation purposes.
In four states (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are
one or more incorporated places known as "independent cities" that are
primary divisions of a state and legally not part of any county. For
statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau may treat an independent
city as a county equivalent, county subdivision, and place.
The U.S. Census Bureau
treats the villages in American Samoa as incorporated places because
they have their own officials, who have specific legal powers as authorized
in the American Samoa Code. The village boundaries are traditional rather
than being specific, legally defined locations. There are no incorporated
places in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The Census Bureau treats
the three towns in the Virgin Islands of the United States as incorporated
places.
There are a few incorporated
places that do not have a legal description. An incorporated place is
established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of
people as opposed to a minor civil division, which generally is created
to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily,
to population.
Each incorporated place
is assigned a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
code, based on the alphabetical order of the incorporated place name
within each state. If incorporated place names are duplicated within
a state and they represent distinctly different areas, a separate code
is assigned to each incorporated place name alphabetically by primary
county in which each incorporated place is located, or if both incorporated
places are in the same county, alphabetically by their legal description
(for example, "city" before "village").
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Geographic Area Descriptions
Metadata
Metadata
2000 Inc. Places/CDPs
1998
Inc. Places/CDPs
1990 Inc. Places/CDPs
2000 Consolidated Cities
Title
2000 Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places
Location
Geography
Each State, D.C.,
American Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin
Islands
Vintage
January 1, 2000
Formats
ARC/INFO Export (.e00), Arcview Shapefile, and ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII)
Projection
Geographic (Lat/Lon)
Datum
NAD83
Distributor
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
Originator
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
For further information on the
Cartographic Boundary Files click
HERE
Title
1998 Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places
Location
Geography
Each State, D.C.
Vintage
January 1, 1998
Formats
ARC/INFO Export (.e00), Arcview Shapefile
Projection
Geographic (Lat/Lon)
Datum
NAD83
Distributor
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
Originator
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
For further information on the
Cartographic Boundary Files click
HERE
Title
1990 Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places
Location
Geography
Each State, D.C., American Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Vintage
January 1, 1990
Formats
ARC/INFO Export (.e00), Arcview Shapefile, and ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII)
Projection
Geographic (Lat/Lon)
Datum
NAD27
Distributor
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
Originator
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
For further
information on the Cartographic Boundary Files click
HERE
Title
2000 Consolidated Cities
Location
Geography
National File
Vintage
January 1, 2000
Formats
ARC/INFO Export (.e00), Arcview Shapefile, and ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII)
Projection
Geographic (Lat/Lon)
Datum
NAD83
Distributor
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
Originator
Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Geography Division
For further
information on the Cartographic Boundary Files click
HERE
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Geographic Area Descriptions
Metadata
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division,
Cartographic Products Management Branch
Created: July 18, 2001
Last Revised:
December 12, 2012 at 01:57:58 PM
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