City, Township, and Unorganized Territory [Minnesota] Full Details

Full Details

Title:

City, Township, and Unorganized Territory [Minnesota]

Description:

This medium-scale (nominally 1:24,000) dataset represents the boundaries of cities, townships, and unorganized territories (CTUs) in Minnesota. The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office created the initial CTU dataset by updating a municipal boundary file maintained by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). Update information was gathered primarily from boundary adjustment records maintained by the Office of Administrative Hearings, Municipal Boundary Adjustment Unit. MnDOT has maintained the file since 2014. Note: Cities and Townships represented in this dataset are political (civil) townships as recognized by the State of MN, not congressional or public land survey townships. Unorganized territory subdivisions are those defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, which often differ from those defined by a county. Check other metadata records in this package for more information on CTUInformation. Link to ESRI Feature Service:<br /> <b>City, Township, and Unorganized Territory in Minnesota</b>: <a href="https://webgis.dot.state.mn.us/65agsf1/rest/services/sdw_govnt/CITY_TOWNSHIP_UNORG_TERR/FeatureServer">City, Township, and Unorganized Territory</a><br /> This dataset is best suited for general reference only -- it is not suitable for precise land measurements or ground surveys. MnGeo created it as part of a legislatively mandated project to calculate a table of township acreage data for the Minnesota Department of Revenue in accordance with state statute (Chapter 366, Article 17, Section 7, Subd. 3). Note that several state agencies and government units maintain statewide CTU boundary and acreage data for their internal business needs. Though these data may meet the requirements of those individual agencies, there are no authoritative processes in place to provide a standard, regularly maintained universal data set for use by the GIS community at large. This data set is a step toward the long term goal of improving accuracy, standardizing attributes and maintaining statewide boundary and acreage data for ongoing use by the GIS community. Data is published weekly to the GeoCommons, but maybe maintained on a different cycle. Open package to review specific layer for more detail.

Creator:

Minnesota Department of Transportation and Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo)

Provider:

Minnesota Geospatial Commons

Resource Class:

Datasets

Theme:

Boundaries

Place:

Minnesota

Rights:

None

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Files

Language:

English

Date Added:

2021-04-26