2000 Minor Civil Divisions

This page last updated: 12/14/2001
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2000 Minor Civil Divisions

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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
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Section 1	Identification Information			Top of page
Originator	Legislative Coordinating Commission - GIS Office
Title	2000 Minor Civil Divisions
Abstract	This is a polygon data set for cities & townships, also called MCDs or Minor Civil Divisions.
Purpose	This database of Minnesota city and township boundaries (MCDs) was developed from U.S. Census Bureau 2000 TIGER/Line files as part of the most recent redistricting effort.
Time Period of Content Date	2000
Currentness Reference	Data current as of 2000 Census Bureau TIGER line file publication
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	As needed
Spatial Extent of Data	State of Minnesota
Bounding Coordinates	-97.5 -89.0 49.5 43.0
Place Keywords	Minnesota
Theme Keywords	mcd city cities town towns township
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Access Constraints	None
Use Constraints	None
Contact Person Information	Lee Meilleur, Director LCC-GIS 100 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 55 St. Paul, MN 55155 Phone: 651-296-0098 FAX: 651-297-3699 E-mail:
Browse Graphic	View a sample of the data.
Browse Graphic File Description
Associated Data Sets	MCD boundary files representing previous years can be obtained from the LCC - GIS Office ftp site.
Section 2	Data Quality Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Attribute Accuracy
Logical Consistency
Completeness	City and Township boundaries are complete statewide
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
Lineage	Census Bureau TIGER/Line File, Version 2000 After the data was received from the Census Bureau, Legislative GIS staff added/standardized the attribute items, and created Maptitude Caliper files that were converted to ESRI Shapefiles. More information about the PL-94-171 data can be found at US Census Bureau. The 2000 TIGER/Line file contains town and city boundaries as of January 1, 2000. There are 11 cities that do not appear in TIGER. They are cities that historically have depended on their surrounding township for election administration and for that reason have not been separately tracked by the Census Bureau. The GIS Office has assigned each of these cities an unofficial FIPS (federal information processing standard) code and added it to Minnesota's redistricting geography, called LCC 2000. The cities are: Beardsley, Johnson, and Ortonville in Big Stone County; Calumet, Grand Rapids, La Prairie, Marble, Nashwauk, and Taconite in Itasca County; and Aurora and Kinney in St. Louis County. Some counties include unorganized territories that have served as election precincts but were not reported to the Census Bureau in time to be included in TIGER. The GIS Office has added them to the LCC 2000 file. They are: Peatland in Kittson County and America/Beltrami Island, Clear River/Oaks, and Jadis in Roseau County. Lake Superior has historically been included as an appendage to one of the towns in St. Louis, Lake, and Cook counties. The GIS Office has made it a separate unorganized territory in each of these counties.
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Section 3	Spatial Data Organization Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Native Data Set Environment	Maptitude 4.5
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	Arc, Polygon
Tiling Scheme	State
Section 4	Spatial Reference Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Horizontal Coordinate Scheme	UTM
Ellipsoid	GRS80
Horizontal Datum	NAD83
Horizontal Units	Meters
Distance Resolution
UTM Zone Number	15
Section 5	Entity and Attribute Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Entity and Attribute Overview	ID AREA DATA COUNTY FIPS County Code, 2000 MCD Minor Civil Division Codes, 2000NAME MCDs NameMCD_NAME MCDs NameTYPE MCD Type (City, Township, and Unorganized)POPULATION Population 1990POPULATION1 Population 1999POPULATION2 Population 2000HISPANIC_O Hispanic OriginHISPANIC_1 Hispanic Origin %NH_WHT Non-Hispanic WhiteNH_DOJ_BLK Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) BlackNH_DOJ_BL1 Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Black %NH_DOJ_IND Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) IndianNH_DOJ_IN1 Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Indian %NH_DOJ_ASN Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) AsianNH_DOJ_AS1 Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Asian %NH_DOJ_HWN Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) HawaiianNH_DOJ_OTH Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other RaceNH_DOJ_OT1 Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Multi RaceNH_OTHM Non-Hispanic Other Multi RaceMINORITY Total Minority PopulationF18_POP_19 18+ Population 1990F18_POP 18+ Population 2000H18_POP 18+ Hispanic H18_POP1 18+ Hispanic %NH18_WHT 18+ Non-Hispanic WhiteNH18_DOJ_B 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) BlackNH18_DOJ_1 18+ Non-Hispanic (Dep. of Justice) Black %NH18_DOJ_I 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) IndianNH18_DOJ_2 18+ Non-Hispanic (Dep. of Justice) Indian %NH18_DOJ_A 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) AsianNH18_DOJ_3 18+ Non-Hispanic (Dep. of Justice) Asian %NH18_DOJ_H 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) HawaiianNH18_DOJ_O 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other RaceNH18_DOJ_4 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Multi RaceNH18_OTHM 18+ Non-Hispanic Other Multi RaceF18_MINORI 18+ Minority Population BLKD Population Density - Black ASND Population Density - AsianINDD Population Density - IndianHSPD Population Density - HispanicBLKCLASS Black Population Density ClassASNCLASS Asian Population Density ClassINDCLASS Indian Population Density ClassHSPCLASS Hispanic Population Density Class
Entity and Attribute Detailed Citation	''Black'' - Non Hispanic Black or African American + Non Hispanic Black or African American and White ''Asian'' - Non Hispanic Asian + Non Hispanic Asian and White ''Hispanic'' - Hispanic of Any Race ''Indian'' - Non Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native + Non Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native and White ''Other'' - Non Hispanic Some Other Race ''Other Multi Race'' - Where more than one minority race is listed
Section 6	Distribution Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Publisher	LCC-GIS Office
Publication Date	03/29/2001
Contact Person Information	Lee Meilleur Director LCC-GIS 100 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 55 St. Paul, MN 55155 Phone: 651-296-0098 FAX: 651-297-3699 E-mail:
Distributor's Data Set Identifier	mcd2000
Distribution Liability	The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the LCC - GIS Office for its own internal business purposes. The LCC - GIS Office does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, the GIS Data must include a copy of this disclaimer.
Transfer Format Name	Shapefile
Transfer Format Version Number
Transfer Size	6.95MB
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Section 7	Metadata Reference Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Metadata Date	12/14/2001
Contact Person Information	Lee Meilleur, Director LCC-GIS 100 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 55 St. Paul, MN 55155 Phone: 651-296-0098 FAX: 651-297-3699 E-mail:
Metadata Standard Name	Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
Metadata Standard Version	1.2
Metadata Standard Online Linkage	http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/gc/stds/metadata.htm