municipality_sf: Municipalities

In CMAP-REPOS/cmapgeo: R-Friendly Geodata for the Chicago Region

Municipalities

Description

The 284 municipalities (also referred to as "incorporated places" in Census Bureau terminology) that are at least partially within the 7-county Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) region. From the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles, 2023 vintage.

Usage

municipality_sf

Format

A multipolygon sf object with 284 rows and 4 variables:

geoid_place

Unique 7-digit place/municipality ID, assigned by the Census Bureau. Character.

municipality

Municipality name. Character.

sqmi

Area in square miles. Double.

geometry

Feature geometry. sf multipolygon.

Details

Census Bureau description:

"Incorporated Places are those reported to the Census Bureau as legally in existence as of January 1, as reported in the latest Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS), under the laws of their respective states. An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always are within a single state or equivalent entity, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions."

Source

US Census Bureau TIGER/Line

Examples

# Display the municipalities with ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(municipality_sf) + geom_sf(lwd = 0.1) + theme_void()

CMAP-REPOS/cmapgeo documentation built on Jan. 28, 2024, 10:16 p.m.