NC CGIA 20020416 vector digital data This set of boundaries represent Township Boundaries and other Minor Civil Divisions as released by the US Bureau of the Census as cartographic boundary files based on Census 2000 geography. Statistical data are not joined to these boundaries. The purpose of this data set is to provide approximate township boundaries and other minor civil divisions as a context for other GIS themes and as a reference for statistical data from Census 2000. These are cartographic boundary files, not at the same scale as TIGER/Line 2000 boundaries. Minor civil divisions (MCDs) are the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county or county equivalent in many states. MCDs represent many different kinds of legal entities with a wide variety of governmental and/or administrative functions. MCDs are variously designated as American Indian reservations, assessment districts, boroughs, charter townships, election districts, election precincts, gores, grants, locations, magisterial districts, parish governing authority districts, plantations, precincts, purchases, road districts, supervisor's districts, towns, and townships. In some states, all or some incorporated places are not located in any MCD (independent places) and thus serve as MCDs in their own right. In other states, incorporated places are part of the MCDs in which they are located (dependent places), or the pattern is mixed- some incorporated places are independent of MCDs and others are included within one or more MCDs. Independent cities, which are statistically equivalent to a county, also are treated as a separate MCD equivalent in states containing MCDs. In Maine and New York, there are American Indian reservations and off-reservation trust lands that serve as MCD equivalents; a separate MCD is created in each case where the American Indian area crosses a county boundary. 2001 publication date Complete None planned -84.422155 -75.415823 36.617232 33.733391 None Township boundaries Cartographic Boundary File Minor Civil Division None North Carolina None Because of coordinate thinning: Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geocoding; Some offshore, redundant, zero population and housing land areas may be absent from the files; Cartographic Boundary files are not necessarily vertically integrated with previous boundary file sets. NC CGIA Database Administrator mailing address

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Raleigh NC 27699-0322 USA 919-733-2090 919-715-0725 dataq@cgia.state.nc.us 9:00 to 5:00 US Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Cartographic Operations Branch North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 NC CGIA 20020416 vector digital data Minor Civil Divisions of Counties as defined by the US Bureau of the Census. Most MCDs in North Carolina are Townships. Accuracy of the boundaries and township names have not been verified. Data were downloaded from www.census.gov as a cartographic boundary file in shapefile format. The data cover all of North Carolina Boundaries are less accurate than TIGER/Line 2000 boundaries. The cartographic boundary files are primarily designed for small scale, thematic mapping applications at a target scale range of 1:500,000 to 1:5,000,000. US Bureau of the Census, Geography Division, Cartographic Operations Branch 2001 vector digital data www.census.gov 500000 online 2002 publication date Census 2000 Preparation of cartographic boundary file. The cartographic boundary files are a generalized extract from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER database. Line simplification/smoothing was performed with a tolerance of 0.005 decimal degrees and a coordinate reduction using the Douglas-Peucker method with a tolerance of 0.0003 decimal degrees. Very small polygons were eliminated when the combination of geographic codes existed elsewhere. The geography was clipped back to the shoreline of the United States, in contrast to TIGER/LineŽ which shows the full extent of geography out to the 3-mile limit. US Bureau of the Census 2001 US Bureau of the Census, Geography Division, Cartographic Operations Branch mailing address

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Washington DC 20233-0001 USA 301-763-4636 techsup@usgs.gov Downloaded shapefile. Projected to State Plane Coordinates, NAD 1983 meters. Created metadata record. NC CGIA 20040625 NC CGIA Jeffrey Brown Project Manager mailing address

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Raleigh NC 27699-0322 USA 919-733-2090 919-715-0725 dataq@cgia.state.nc.us 9:00 to 5:00 Metadata imported. C:\DOCUME~1\david\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml1A.tmp Dataset copied. Server=cgiatdb; Service=5151; Database=onemap_test; User=sdeadmin; Version=sde.DEFAULT Vector G-polygon 1145 State Plane Coordinate System 1983 3200 34.333333 36.166667 -79.000000 33.750000 609601.220000 0.000000 coordinate pair 0.002048 0.002048 meters North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 1.000000 Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates onemap_prod.SDEADMIN.twnshps Townships and other Minor Civil Divisions in North Carolina, Census 2000 NC CGIA LSAD_TRANS Legal Statistical Area Description type US Bureau of the Census Type varies. SHAPE.len Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. PERIMETER Perimeter of the polygon CGIA Perimeter varies CS37_D00_ Internal id CGIA Sequential identifier CS37_D00_I Internal ID CGIA Sequential identifier STATE State Number CGIA FIPS State Codes US Bureau of the Census COUNTY County code US Bureau of the Census FIPS County Codes US Bureau of the Census MCD Minor Civil Division Code US Bureau of the Census FIPS MCD Codes US Bureau of the Census COUSUBFP Census subareas are statistical subdivisions of boroughs, census areas, city and boroughs, and the municipality (entities that are statistically equivalent to counties) in Alaska. Census subareas are delineated cooperatively by the state of Alaska and the U.S. Census Bureau. They were first used for data presentation purposes as part of the 1980 census US Bureau of the Census Number varies NAME Name of subdivision US Bureau of the Census Name varies. OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. SHAPE Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. LSAD Legal Statistical Area Description Code US Bureau of the Census LSAD Codes US Bureau of the Census SHAPE.area onemap_prod.SDEADMIN.twnshps.AREA Attributes represent names, types, and identification codes for minor civil divisions. US Bureau of the Census CGIA Database Administrator mailing address

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Raleigh NC 27699-0322 USA 919-733-2090 919-715-0725 dataq@cgia.state.nc.us 9:00 to 5:00 Shapefile of Township and other Minor Civil Divisions Boundaries in North Carolina. NCCGIA is charged with the development and maintenance of the State's corporate geographic database and, in cooperation with other mapping organizations, is committed to offering its users accurate, useful, and current information about the state. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information, errors and conditions originating from physical sources used to develop the corporate database may be reflected in the data supplied. The client must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of the information with respect to possible errors,original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to certain data. NCCGIA does not support secondary distribution of these data. The use of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the NCCGIA or North Carolina State Government. ARCG 8 shapefile 2.493 CD-ROM shapefile contact CGIA for offline data orders Contact CGIA at 919-733-2090 Data creation and large data analysis jobs contact Database Administration P:(919)733-2090. All data are available through standard ordering procedures on a cost recovery basis. All formats supplied are created using ARC/INFO GIS software on Unix workstations or ArcGIS on Windows PCs. Other formats are available. Format compatibility is the user's responsibility. For more information on formats and media, use a web browser: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cost.html 2004 20061002 20040617 NC CGIA Database Administrator Database Administrator mailing address

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Raleigh NC 27699-0322 USA 919-733-2090 919-715-0725 dataq@cgia.state.nc.us 9:00 to 5:00 FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile