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Municipal Boundaries, Wisconsin 2020 (Fall)
- Identification Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Data Quality Information
- Distribution Information
- Spatial Representation Information
- Metadata Reference Information
Identification Information
- Citation
- Title
- Municipal Boundaries, Wisconsin 2020 (Fall)
- Originator
- Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
- Publication Date
- 2020-08-18
- Edition
- Fall 2020
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- mapDigital
- Collection Title
- Statewide, Wisconsin State Agencies
- Abstract
- This data layer represents municipal boundaries (cities, towns, and villages) for Wisconsin in the fall of 2020.
- 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. [Wisconsin municipal boundaries (cities, towns, and villages) collected in July 2020. This data has been collected in regards to state statute 15(4)(br)1. County clerks will transmit municipal, municipal ward, and county supervisory districts in GIS format to LTSB by January 15th and July 15th per statute 5.15(4)(br)1: "...no later than January 15 and July 15 of each year, the county clerk shall transmit to the Legislative Technology Services Bureau a report confirming the boundaries of each municipality, ward, and supervisory district in the county together with a map of the county, in an electronic format approved by the Legislative Technology Services Bureau. Each report shall be current to the nearest January 1 or July 1 preceding the date of the report”. Municipal clerks need to notify the county clerk within 5 days of any boundary change per statute 5.15(4)(b): "Within 5 days after adoption or enactment of an ordinance or resolution under this section or any amendment thereto, the municipal clerk shall transmit one copy of the ordinance or resolution or the amendment to the county clerk of each county in which the municipality is contained, accompanied by the list and map specified in par. (a). Each copy shall identify the name of the municipality and the county or counties in which it is located." Municipal data collected in the January collections will be used by LTSB to update municipal boundaries the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER database via the Boundary Annexation Survey (BAS). Counties and municipalities are no longer required to submit boundary changes directly to the Census Bureau. LTSB will submit data to the Census Bureau for the state as a whole. Section 13.96(1)(b) of the Wisconsin Statutes requires LTSB to “upon receipt of municipal boundary information at each reporting interval, reconcile and compile the information received to produce a statewide data base consisting of municipal boundary information for the entire state”. Section 13.96(1)(c) states that LTSB shall “Participate, on behalf of this state, in geographic boundary information programs when offered by the U.S. bureau of the census”. LTSB will publish Municipal Wards, Municipal Boundaries (Cities, Towns, Villages), and County Supervisory Districts to the LTSB Open Data Portal. This data has been collected with the WISE-Decade software platform.]
- Supplemental Information
- This is an archived copy of the data held at UW-Madison. For access to the most current data please visit: https://data-ltsb.opendata.arcgis.com/
- Temporal Extent
- Time Instant
- 2020-08-18T00:00:00
- Bounding Box
- West
- -92.964316
- East
- -86.666104
- North
- 47.083038
- South
- 42.456895
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
-
Wisconsin
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- GNIS
- Theme Keyword
- Cities and towns
-
Villages
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- 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
- biannually
- Language
- eng
- Credit
- Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
- Delivery Point
- 17 West Main Street, Suite 200
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703-3305
- Country
- US
- GIS@legis.wisconsin.gov
- Phone
- (608) 266-6640 ext. 1
- Point of Contact
- Contact
- Ryan Squires
- Position Name
- GIS Team Lead
- Delivery Point
- 17 West Main Street, Suite 200
- City
- Madison
- Administrative Area
- WI
- Postal Code
- 53703-3305
- Country
- US
- GIS@legis.wisconsin.gov
- Phone
- (608) 283-1830
Spatial Reference Information
- Reference System Identifier
- Code
- 3071
- Code Space
- EPSG
- Version
- 6.13(9.2.0)
Data Quality Information
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Report
- Lineage
- Process Step
- Description
- Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
- Process Date
- 2020-05-28T00:00:00
- Process Step
- Description
- Reproject data from Web Mercator to WTM.
- Process Date
- 2020-12-17T00:00:00
Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Format Version
- 1.0
- Distributor
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Distributor
- Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
- Online Access
- https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/WI_MunicipalBoundaries_Fall_2020.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
- 1911
Metadata Reference Information
- Hierarchy Level
- dataset
- Metadata File Identifier
- C700B25D-28BB-4FEF-A9BC-8A709267FCE7
- Metadata Date Stamp
- 2020-12-17
- Metadata Standard Name
- ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata Standard Version
- 2007
- Character Set
- utf8