This is a subset of Populated Alaska Places that is used primarily for large scale mapping. Locations of statewide cities were entered by latitude-longitude, digitized from USGS 1:250,000 quadrangle maps, and heads-up digitizing from USGS 1:250,000 maps based on relative positioning of digital hydrography and digital township lines. Many locations were later updated by snapping them to points in the USGSNAMES coverage obtained from USGS. List of populated places were acquired from Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA). The classifications of cities is determined by the Department of Community and Regional Affairs. An excellent description of city classifications was prepared by the Local Boundary Commission Staff of the Alaska Department of Community & Regional Affairs. This white paper can be found online at: http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/lbc/pubs/Local_Gov_AK.pdf The document is in PDF format.
Cartographic representation.
Procedures_Used: Town locations eyeballed from 1:250000 maps and township grid. Updated 19900919 J. Tam annolevel size content 1 15000 water body names 4000 4000 town names (statewide maps) 6000 6000 " 8000 8000 "
publication date
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Point features present.
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location of towns - note: date varies
attributes for towns - note, date varies
Updated population attributes
Deleted rivers. See hydro coverage. J. Tam 19901024 Added Whittier & Cordova J. Tam 19910214 Small towns have towns-id gt 2000. J. Tam 19910306 N. vanVeldhuisen 19900809 Annotation of towns resolved to 8000 for Unified Home Rule Municipalities and Home Rule Cities -- 4500 for First Class Cities -- 4000 for Second Class Cities. There is a related INFO datafile called TOWNS.DAT related to TOWNS.PAT by TOWNS-ID with a relate TOWNS. TOWNS.DAT contains the name and class and population and Incorporation Date of all the towns. TOWNS-ID represents these values : 1 thru 3 -- Unified Home Rule Municipalities 4 thru 15 -- Home Rule Cities 101 thru 122 -- First Class Cities 201 thru 316 -- Second Class Cities The labels of the towns each contain a symbol relative in size to each city classification. Anno subclasses added 19920610 by J. Tam: anno.anno25mil - for statewide maps anno.anno1mil - for 1:1000000 maps annosize reduced by half New item MAIN added for major towns: MAIN le 10 & annolevel = 10 for top 10 MAIN le 20 & annolevel = 10 & 20 for top 20 Annotation subclass annoqmq added for 1:250-000 maps. 19931229 - G. Holt Input 1990 U.S. Census populations for unincorporated communities from list provided by Jules Tileston. Added 8 ANCSA villages per Jules for wetland maps. Nikolski- Eklutna- Levelock- Eyak- Eagle Village- Chalkyitsik- Alatna- King Island 19940121 - J. Tam Annotation subclass anno8x11 added for 8x11 maps. Use in conjunction with item M8x11 to display 22 towns as follows in ARCPLOT: res towns point m8x11 = Y points towns noids annotext towns anno8x11 19940128 - J. Tam Move North Pole name so it does not conflict with annotation for Fairbanks North Star Borough. 19940729 - J. Tam Add annotation subclass anno2mil to be consistent with other coverages. Copied anno from anno25mil to anno2mil. 19940803 - J. Tam Updated 31 label attributes which had missing NAMEs. Added 5 towns: Iditarod - Flat - Willow - Ophir - Poorman 19940825 - J. Tam Corrected the placement of 3 town names in subclasses anno2mil and anno25mil: Mountain Village; Pitkas Point; Saint Marys. 19950323 - J. Tam Corrected the locations of 224 towns and their annotations as necessary. These points were snapped to corresponding points in the USGSNAMES coverage. 19950324 - J. Tam Added annotation subclass anno11x17 for maps approximately 11x17. Use same ARCPLOT commands as for the 8x11 maps (see above). 19950406 - J. Tam Tweaked the positions of about a dozen annotations in anno2mil to display better in ARC7. 19950412 - J. Tam Tweaked the positions of several annotations in anno1mil to display better in ARC7. Deleted the subclass anno25mil. 19950417 - J. Tam Moved anno2mil annotation for Prudhoe Bay offshore. 19950427 - J. Tam Updated annotation subclass country with new labels for Canada and Russia. 19961126 - M. Gorham Deleted point and annotation for Eyak and Afognak. (Annotation was removed from all subclasses.) 199806 - M. Gorham Moved point for Thorne Bay. Corrected names for Woody Is. and Womens Bay. They were reversed. 200001 - M. Gorham Copied anno2mil to anno2mil_dced. Copied anno2mil from older towns coverage to this coverage. It was discovered that some of the annotation had been changed. 200008 - M. Gorham Changed the name of the City of Sheldon Point to the City of Nunam Iqua, which means "end of the tundra". Change notification received from George Plumley, DCED.
Updated population or POP attributes. Also corrected name locations of five villages: Chaloonawick, Bill Moore's, Hamilton, Womens Bay, and Woody Island.
TOWNS coverage imported into geodatabase.
Geodatabase feature classes data copied to materialized view.
Materialized view data extracted and converted to Shape format.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Cartographic representation.
DNR
Top towns.
DNR
Name of town.
USGS
Community classification.
DCRA
Municipality.
DCRA
First class.
DCRA
Municipality.
DCRA
Home Rule City.
DCRA
Unified Home Rule Municipality.
DCRA
Organized Under Federal Law.
DCRA
Map on 8.5" x 11" map.
DCRA
YES, map.
DNR
NO, don't map.
DNR
Population of town.
DCRA
ANCSA
DCRA
YES, ANCSA.
DCRA
NO, NOT ANCSA.
DCRA
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