<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:creator>IndianaMap</dc:creator><dc:description>Civil townships are a unit of local government, typically subordinate to the County. In Indiana, each township is served by an elected township trustee. Civil townships are primarily represented as Minor Civil Divisions (MCDs) in the source data by the US Census Bureau. Per the US Census, MCDs are the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county in many states. This data mostly contains MCD boundaries, with some corrected township boundaries (see explanation below). On 1/3/2024, IGIO staff updated the boundaries and/or attributes of 6 townships: Center (Delaware Co), Mount Pleasant (Delaware Co), Eagle (Boone Co), Perry (Boone Co), Union (Boone Co), and Worth (Boone Co). The Delaware County townships were attributed as either Muncie City or Yorktown Town and had associated incorporated area boundaries overlapping the civil township boundary. Boone County had townships attributed as Zionsville City and Whitestown Town and had associated incorporated are boundaries overlapping the real civil township boundary. Civil township boundaries from the 2023 Data Harvest were used when possible to correct geometry, and the neighboring census township boundaries to maintain topology when needed. Eagle and Union townships do not have a populated GEOID since the corrected boundary does not correspond to a census MCD geography to avoid incorrect joins to census tabular data by end users.</dc:description><dc:format>ArcGIS FeatureLayer</dc:format><dc:identifier>https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/7f28d72f38554211af185e7a24528e70_0</dc:identifier><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:publisher>IndianaMap</dc:publisher><dc:rights>Public</dc:rights><dc:title>Civil Township Boundaries 2021 [Indiana]</dc:title><dc:type>Web services</dc:type><dc:coverage>Indiana</dc:coverage><dc:date>2021</dc:date></oai_dc:dc>