Washington State Department of Social and Health ServicesInformation Security Category 1 - Public Information These are the current administrative reporting regions within which the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services manages its resources and provides its services. This data contains current regions at the highest level of the DSHS organizational hierarchy. Boundaries are composed of dissolved Washington State County boundaries that are sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau's decadal census county geography that WA Office of Financial Management extracts from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line database. The records in this data are updated with the decadal boundaries (which change over time) and also when DSHS changes its administrative regions and organizational unit names. Current region features have a GDLActiveRecord field value of 1 - Active. Region records with unknown effective dates have a StartDate field value of 7/1/1970 - the date when Washington State established its DSHS agency. Location accuracy - The current DSHS Administrative Regions boundaries are derived from WA OFM's 2020 Census County boundaries. These boundaries can have noteworthy discrepancies with the most recent survey-quality county boundary data available from Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Therefore, care should be taken to avoid making any final determinations regarding the DSHS Administrative region in which is located a high-location-accuracy feature such as a residential address when it is near a region boundary.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/c1d53a8d791a4d43857c1d250feeebd6_0engState of Washington Geospatial Open Data PortalPublicDSHS Administrative Regions [Washington (State)]Web servicesWashington (State)Last Modified: 2024-08-27