Municipal Boundaries - USA Sample

**Overview**
US Municipal Boundaries contains up-to-date information on the boundaries of incorporated municipalities. It is updated quarterly to include new incorporations, annexations, de-annexations, mergers, consolidations, dis-incorporations, and/or dissolution of local governmental entities.

This sample data set covers the San Francisco, CA area. This represents a subset of the full product’s geographic extent. The full commercial offering features geographic coverage of the entire United States. Contact [e-mail] for more information on licensing the product.

**Use cases**
**Location Data Enrichment**
Properly calculate tax rates by jurisdiction & calculate premium taxes for most states
**Risk Analysis**
Visually analyze and track high risk areas
**Location Planning**
Determine applicable municipal ordinances
**Customer Acquisition**
Save time and resources by targeting specific municipalities

**Product details**
The product is designed for users who require access to current incorporated place definitions and associated Census codes. Examples include Telecommunications, insurance, risk assessment companies utilizing this product for accurate data-analysis/querying, and mapping of customers or assets to ensure the correct municipality is associated (point-in-polygon analysis).
Contains:
• Municipal boundary layer
• Municipal inventory points
• State, county, and place FIPS codes

Features:
• Updated quarterly to include new incorporations, mergers, annexations and de-annexations
• Data corresponds to Census TIGER/Line files for Census Places
• Attributes include update flags, FIPS and GNIS ID’s and incorporated flags
• Enhancements ensure consistent overlay characteristics
Additional information:
Incorporated and unincorporated places:
• Incorporated place boundaries are continually updated and enhanced, using current information from government sources.
• Unincorporated places that are defined by the Census Bureau as Designated Places are included in Municipal Boundaries (US) for additional reference, but are only updated after each decennial census. Unincorporated places will remain current to 2020 until data from the 2030 census is incorporated in the Municipal Boundaries product, likely sometime in 2031.

**Additional Insights**
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