U.S. Counties & Equivalent Entities

U.S. Counties & Equivalent Entities This feature layer, utilizing National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) data from the U.S. Census Bureau, depicts counties and their equivalent entities in the United States. Per the [USCB], "The primary legal divisions of most states are termed counties. * In Louisiana, these divisions are known as parishes. * In Alaska the equivalent entities are the organized boroughs, city and boroughs, municipalities, and census areas. * There are county equivalents for data presentation: Municipios - Puerto Rico, Districts and islands - American Samoa, Municipalities - Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. * In Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia, there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and, thus, constitute primary divisions of their states. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation. * The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions, and each area is considered an equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation in decennial censuses. * All of the counties in Connecticut and Rhode Island and nine counties in Massachusetts were dissolved as functioning governmental entities; however, the Census Bureau continues to present data for these historical entities in order to provide comparable geographic units at the county level of the geographic hierarchy for these states and represents them as nonfunctioning legal entities in data products." [NGDA _ US Counties & Equivalents _ 800x400 _ Screen Capture] Mercer County, New Jersey Data currency: This cached Esri federal service is checked weekly for updates from its enterprise federal source ([TIGERweb/State_County]) and will support mapping, analysis, data exports and OGC API – Feature access. NGDAID: [76 (Series Information for County and Equivalent Entities National TIGER/Line Shapefiles, Current)] OGC API Features Link: ([U.S. Counties & Equivalents]) copy this link to embed it in OGC Compliant viewers For more information, please visit: [States, Counties, and Statistically Equivalent Entities] For feedback please contact: [Esri_US_Federal_Data@esri.com] NGDA Data Set This data set is part of the [NGDA Governmental Units, and Administrative and Statistical Boundaries Theme Community]. Per the Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC), this [theme] is defined as the “boundaries that delineate geographic areas for uses such as governance and the general provision of services (e.g., states, American Indian reservations, counties, cities, towns, etc.), administration and/or for a specific purpose (e.g., congressional districts, school districts, fire districts, Alaska Native Regional Corporations, etc.), and/or provision of statistical data (census tracts, census blocks, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, etc.). Boundaries for these various types of geographic areas are either defined through a documented legal description or through criteria and guidelines. Other boundaries may include international limits, those of federal land ownership, the extent of administrative regions for various federal agencies, as well as the jurisdictional offshore limits of U.S. sovereignty. Boundaries associated solely with natural resources and/or cultural entities are excluded from this theme and are included in the appropriate subject themes.” For other NGDA Content: [Esri Federal Datasets]