Minor Civil Divisions, Minnesota, 2010

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Minor Civil Divisions, Minnesota, 2010

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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	LCC-GIS
Title	Minor Civil Divisions, Minnesota, 2010
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 2010 TIGER/Line files as part of the most recent redistricting effort.
Time Period of Content Date	2010
Currentness Reference	Data current as of 2010 Census Bureau TIGER line file publication
Progress	Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency	As needed
Spatial Extent of Data	State of Minnesota
Bounding Coordinates	-97.269853 -89.389133 49.404387 43.435244
Place Keywords	Minnesota
Theme Keywords	boundaries, Municipal boundary, municipal boundaries, MCD boundary, MCD boundaries, minor civil division boundary, minor civil division boundaries, city and township boundaries, jurisdictional boundary, jurisdictional boundaries, city boundary, township boundary, political township, unorganized territory, city, township
Theme Keyword Thesaurus	mcd city cities town towns township
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	none available
Browse Graphic File Description	View a sample of the data.
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
Vertical Positional Accuracy	Not Applicable
Lineage	The 2010 TIGER/Line file contains county, town, and city boundaries as of January 1, 2010. There are nine cities that do not appear in TIGER. They are cities that historically depended on their surrounding township for election administration and for that reason have not been separately tracked by the Census Bureau, even after they ceased to be dependent. 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 2010." The cities are: Beardsley, Johnson, and Ortonville in Big Stone County; Calumet, Marble, Nashwauk, and Taconite in Itasca County; and Aurora and Kinney in St. Louis County. The counties along Minnesota's northern border tend to have few people and fewer roads. They have created precincts in unorganized territory along public land survey lines. Before the 2010 census, the Census Bureau refused to recognize these invisible precinct boundaries and instead put the TIGER precinct boundaries along recognizable, visible physical features, such as rivers and lakes. They made the unorganized territory boundaries conform to the precinct boundaries. For the 2010 census, the Census Bureau used GPS units to locate housing units and began to allow the use of public land survey lines for precinct boundaries. Unfortunately, the Bureau did not change the boundaries of the unorganized territories to conform to the newly-recognized precinct boundaries, so the TIGER file contains a large number of erroneous unorganized territories in Lake of the Woods, Koochiching, and Itasca counties. The GIS Office has moved the unorganized territory boundaries to conform to the precinct boundaries and changed the unorganized territory names accordingly. A list of these changes, and the other changes to county subdivision names and numbers described below, is shown in Appendix A In Beltrami County, TIGER 2010 has the unorganized territory of Upper Red Lake. The GIS Office has divided it into North Beltrami Unorganized Territory and Lower Red Lake Unorganized Territory, in accordance with the precinct names there. In Itasca County, TIGER 2010 shows a part of Northeast Itasca Unorganized Territory as Effie Unorganized Territory. The GIS Office has corrected that. In Lake of the Woods County, TIGER 2010 shows 21 townships that are actually unorganized territory with different boundaries and different names. The GIS Office has corrected that. In Nicollet County, TIGER 2010 shows a few blocks as part of the City of Le Sueur that the GIS Office has corrected to be part of Lake Prairie Township. In Scott County, TIGER 2010 shows a few blocks as part of the Credit Lake Township that the GIS Office has corrected to be part of Spring Lake Township. 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 6
Geographic Reference for Tabular Data	None
Spatial Object Type	Vector
Vendor Specific Object Types	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
Altitude Datum	Not applicable
Altitude Units	Not applicable
Depth Datum	Not applicable
Depth Units	Not applicable
UTM Zone Number	15
Section 5	Entity and Attribute Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Entity and Attribute Overview	AREA: Total area of polygon in suare miles COUNTY: FIPS County Code MCD: FIPS Minor Civil Division Code NAME: MCD Name and Type (e.g., 'Angle Unorganized') MCD_NAME: MCD Name (e.g., 'Angle') TYPE: MCD Type (City, Township, and Unorganized) ''POP2000'' Population 2000 ''POPULATION'' Population 2010 ''HISPANIC_O'' Hispanic Origin ''NH_WHT'' Non-Hispanic White ''NH_DOJ_BLK'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Black ''NH_DOJ_IND'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Indian ''NH_DOJ_ASN'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Asian ''NH_DOJ_HWN'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Hawaiian ''NH_DOJ_OTH'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Race ''NH_DOJ_OT1'' Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Multi Race ''F18_POP_20'' 18+ Population 2000 ''F18_POP'' 18+ Population 2010 ''H18_POP'' 18+ Hispanic ''NH18_WHT'' 18+ Non-Hispanic White ''NH18_DOJ_B'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Black ''NH18_DOJ_I'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Indian ''NH18_DOJ_A'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Asian ''NH18_DOJ_H'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Hawaiian ''NH18_DOJ_O'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Race ''NH18_DOJ_1'' 18+ Non-Hispanic (Department of Justice) Other Multi Race
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 For links to more information about the state and county FIPS codes, see: http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/committee/standards/standards_adopted_devel.html
Section 6	Distribution Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Publisher	LCC-GIS
Publication Date	03/14/2012
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	mcd2010
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	N/A
Transfer Size	8 mb
Ordering Instructions	This data set is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to start downloading a self extracting 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - DBF file - SHP file - SHX file After downloading this self extracting 'zip' file (which will have an '.exe' extension), simply execute (run) the file. Doing this will automatically extract the files described above. You can then delete file types that you do not need, if any.
Online Linkage	Click here to download data. (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) By clicking here, you agree to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above.
Section 7	Metadata Reference Information		Top of full metadata	Top of page
Metadata Date	03/14/2012
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.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm