City Limits of Washington State, November 2020

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Washington State Department of Transportation

Publication_Date: 20201208

Title: City Limits of Washington State, November 2020

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington, USA

Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation

Description:

Abstract:

Polygons depict the boundaries of Washington State's incorporated municipalities, as recorded by the Washington State Office of Financial Management. Attributes include city names as provided by the Washington State Office of Financial Management, and Federal Information Processing Standard codes(FIPS) as provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Washington State Office of Financial Management provided FIPS codes for cities incorporated after the National Institute of Standards and Technology's FIPS code publication date. GNIS (Geographic Name Information System) codes provided by the Washington State Department of Revenue have been included for this quarter. For this particular update, all annexations approved by Office of Financial Management for First Quarter of 2021 are included.

Purpose:

Boundaries of incorporated municipalities of Washington State as recorded by the Washington State Office of Financial Management. This data set is used as a reference layer for geographic information systems at the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Supplemental_Information:

The calendar date under time period of content is the date of annexation approval and certification by the Washington State Office of Financial Management. Beginning with the publication of the first quarter of 2015, cartographic offsets from roads and railroads will no longer be applied to new annexations.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20201130

Time_of_Day: unknown

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Quarterly

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -124.495537

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -116.847121

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.023764

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.511185

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: cities

Theme_Keyword: incorporated

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: Washington

Place_Keyword: Pacific Northwest

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

The Washington State Department of Transportation shall not be liable for any activity involving this data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Person: Kandie Rackleff

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 47384

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7384

Country: US

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-570-2400

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: TransportationGISDataSteward@wsdot.wa.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

GIS Implementation Team, Washington State Department of Transportation

Publication_Date: 20071206

Title: Major Cities of Washington State

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Olympia, Washington, USA

Publisher: Washington State Department of Transportation

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

City names spellings are as specified by the Washington State Office of Financial Management. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes are as provided by download from the National Institute of Standards and Technology web site. The Washington State Office of Financial Management has provided FIPS codes for cities incorporated after the 1998 FIPS code publication date. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) codes provided by the Washington State Department of Revenue have been added.

Completeness_Report:

The data represents every city known to be incorporated in the State of Washington as of the date shown in Time Period of Content.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

City limit boundaries were digitized from a variety of map sources including USGS quadrangles and WSDOT city maps. Generally, the data approach National Map Accuracy Standards for 1:24,000 scale: most well-defined points may be expected to fall within 40 feet of their true locations. Where a city limit follows the edge of a public right of way, the city limit line has been offset approximately 75 feet from the line representing the street on WSDOT-digitized 1:24,000-scale base data. Where a city limit adjoins a street not represented in WSDOT data, the city limit's position including the 75 foot offset has been estimated by measurement from the nearest available reference features in the base data (other roads, railroads, boundaries, section lines, pipelines, streams, etc.) Where a city limit follows a section line, this data set depicts it following that line as located on WSDOT's 1:24,000-scale base data, whether or not a right of way is coincident with the section line. In some cases, city limits follow a right of way centerline, and are shown coincident with the line representing that road in WSDOT's 1:24,000-scale base data. This occurs only on some old city limits established prior to the outlaw of such practice. Where a city limit follows the edge of a railroad right of way, the city limit has been offset a standard 100 feet from the line representing the railroad on WSDOT-digitized 1:24,000-scale base data. Beginning with the First Quarter of 2015, the offsets described above will no longer be applied to new annexations.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Dataset updated to include annexations in the first quarter of 2021.

Process_Date: 20201201

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Washington State Department of Transportation

Contact_Person: Kandie Rackleff

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 47384

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7384

Country: US

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-570-2400

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: TransportationGISDataSteward@wsdot.wa.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.0003280833333333333

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.0003280833333333333

Planar_Distance_Units: foot_us

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983 HARN

Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Definition:

Boundaries of incorporated municipalities of Washington State as recorded by the Washington State Office of Financial Manageme

Entity_Type_Definition_Source:

Washington State Department of Transportation, Office of Cartography and GIS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CountySeat

Attribute_Definition:

The town or City that is the location of government for a County

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CityName

Attribute_Definition:

The common name of a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government established by state charter. City Names are stewarded by Washington State's Office of Financial Management.

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LastUpdate

Attribute_Definition:

This is the ending date of the quarter the city boundary was last modified.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CityGNISPlaceCode

Attribute_Definition:

A code that represents an incorporated city in Washington State. The Code is administered and maintained by the US Board of Geographic Names within the Geographic Names Information System.

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MajorCity

Attribute_Definition:

Major city is a cartographic designation. A city is considered to be a major city if the city holds a county seat; other criteria include population and the presence on historical maps. There are no more than 5 "major" cities in a county.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CountyFIPSLongPlaceCode

Attribute_Definition:

A code that is a concatenation of State FIPS Place Code and County FIPS Place Code, administered and maintained by the American National Standards Institute for the federal government assigned to a county within Washington State. The code is based on the 2000 and 2010 US Census.

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: CityFIPSLongPlaceCode

Attribute_Definition:

A code that represents a concatenation of the State FIPS 55 Code and the City FIPS 55 Code , administered and maintained by ANSI. These codes originate from the 2000 and 2010 US Census.

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OFMCityCode

Attribute_Definition:

A code based on the 1990 US Census that represents Washington places. Since US Census Bureau no longer maintains 1990 place codes, Washington State Office of Financial Management, assigns codes for cities in Washington State which incorporated after 1999.

Attribute_Definition_Source: WSDOT Application – DOTS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: GlobalID

Attribute_Definition: UniqueID used for the replication of data.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape.STArea()

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape.STLength()

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Each incorporated place is represented by one or more polygons constructed from a legal description of its boundaries. Polygons are attributed with the name of the incorporated entity, Federal Information Processing Standards code and Geographic Names Information System code . County Seats are also indicated in a separate column. A field was added called LastUpdate and the contents are the ending date of the quarter in which the city boundary was last changed.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

Washington State Department of Transportation, Office of Information Technology

Contact_Person: Jordyn Mitchell

Contact_Position: GIS Database Administrator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 47430

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7430

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 360-705-7645

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mitchejo@wsdot.wa.gov

Distribution_Liability:

The Washington State Department of Transportation shall not be liable for any activity involving this data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.

Standard_Order_Process:

Fees: none

Ordering_Instructions:

Download individual data sets from <http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/geodatacatalog/default.htm>

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20201208

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: WSDOT

Contact_Person: Kandie Rackleff

Contact_Position: GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 47384

City: Olympia

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 98504-7384

Country: US

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 360-570-2400

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: TransportationGISDataSteward@wsdot.wa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time