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Technical College Districts, Wisconsin 2025

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Technical College Districts, Wisconsin 2025
Originator
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Publication Date
2025-10-09
Edition
2025
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Collection Title
Statewide, Wisconsin State Agencies
Abstract
This dataset includes boundaries for the Wisconsin Technical College System regions in 2025. [This polygon layer contains the regions of the Wisconsin Technical College System as of 2025. This dataset includes boundaries for the Wisconsin Technical College System regions. This layer was created using unified and secondary public school district boundaries for the state of Wisconsin. Authoritative information used to create this dataset came from the Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual which was current as of August 2021 and last updated in April 2020. Each year, there is a chance for reorganizations to take place that either transfer territory between school districts or consolidate/dissolve/create districts. These reorganizations go into effect on July 1st of each year. Changes in school district boundaries have the potential to affect technical college boundaries.]
Purpose
This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. [This polygon layer contains the regions of the Wisconsin Technical College System as of 2025.]
Supplemental Information
This is an archived copy of the data held at UW-Madison.
Temporal Extent
Time Period
Begin
End
2025-10-09T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-92.964328
East
-86.666097
North
47.083273
South
42.456907
Bounding Box
West
-92.964215
East
-86.709179
North
47.083097
South
42.457991
ISO Topic Category
boundaries
Place Keyword
Wisconsin
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Theme Keyword
Technical institutes
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
[The layer is intended for your reference use only. It contains the best information the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has to date, but no guarantee of accuracy is made. It should not be used for any land transactions, financial decisions, taxation, surveying, or other similar uses.]
Legal Constraints
Use Limitation
Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Point of Contact
Contact
Shelley Witte
Position Name
GIS Technician
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster Street
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53701
Country
US
Email
shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
Phone
608-266-3939
Point of Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster St.
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53703
Country
US
Phone
608-266-3390
Point of Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Technical College System
Delivery Point
4622 University Avenue PO Box 7874
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53707-7874
Country
US
Phone
608-266-1207

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
3071
Code Space
EPSG
Version
11.004

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
This layer was produced using the unified and secondary public school district boundaries for the state of Wisconsin. The school district boundary datasets was derived from county data. For more information about the Wisconsin school district boundaries datasets, please refer to their metadata. There are 16 regions of the Wisconsin Technical College System. The territory within each region (or "district" as they are referred to by Wisconsin state statutes) is described in Policy Number 204 of the Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual. Each territory contains the whole of or parts of counties, municipalities, and public school districts. This polygon layer was built up from the statewide school district boundaries layer from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. A County Boundaries (2015) polygon layer for the state of Wisconsin distributed by the Arthur H. Robinson Map Library (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and originating from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was also used as a reference layer. To build up Wisconsin Technical College (WTC) regions layer, the statewide layers for unified school district boundaries and secondary school district boundaries were merged into one. A technical college region attribute field was added to the layer. Using the board policy manual as a reference, school districts that were in two different regions were split along county lines using the Split tool. After digitizing county boundaries into the school district layer was complete, a spatial join was used to add county information. Then, using Python code that took the school district and county fields as parameters, the technical college regions were assigned with the Calculate Field tool. The Dissolve tool was used on the layer. The layer was then checked for errors.
Process Step
Description
Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
Process Date
2025-10-09T00:00:00
Source
Title
Wisconsin Technical College board policy manual
Creation Date
2025-10-09
Publication Date
2025-10-09
Revision Date
2025-10-09
Description
Policy manual from the Wisconsin Technical College System board which contains Section 204 describing the territory (counties and school districts) within each WTC region

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1.0
Distributor
Distributor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Online Access
https://web.s3.wisc.edu/rml-gisdata/WI_Technical_College_Districts_2025.zip
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Name
GeoData@Wisconsin
Function
download

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
16

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
5876B9E1-A92B-4AD4-A419-C71787C0F51B
Metadata Point of Contact
Name
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster St.
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53703
Country
US
Phone
608-266-3390
Metadata Point of Contact
Name
Shelley Witte
Position Name
GIS Technician
Delivery Point
125 S. Webster Street
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53701
Country
US
Email
shelley.witte@dpi.wi.gov
Phone
608-266-3939
Metadata Point of Contact
Name
Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
Position Name
metadata technician
Delivery Point
550 N. Park Street
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53706
Country
US
Email
askmap@library.wisc.edu
Phone
(608) 262-1471
Metadata Date Stamp
2025-10-09
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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