The municipalities data set (also known as civil divisions) delineates the incorporated cities, villages, and towns in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. A variety of sources at several different scales and dates were used to map the boundaries including legal descriptions, annexation documents, surveys, and subdivision plats.

Infomation on each Public Land Survey System (PLSS) standard corner in Manitowoc County is stored in this feature class. Corner points are identified and indexed by the state standard "Wisconsin Corner Point Identification System."

This feature class contains the government lots in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Anytime a full quarter-quarter section could not be created by the original government surveyors because of the existence of a meandered water body, government lots were created to comprise that area.

This polygon dataset represents the school dristicts in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was created using the school district code in the assessment/tax database joined to the tax parcel polygons using the County's parcel identification number (PIN). The parcel polygons were then dissolved on the district codes and manually squared off at road right-of-ways.

Centerline is a linear feature class that represents roads in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It contains the low-to-high address ranges for both the left and right sides of roads. This feature class may contain actual high and low or theoretical high and low addresses depending on how the municipality reported their values.

This feature class is a composite polygon layer containing coding for each level of PLSS division in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. This is a production feature class that combines the nesting and hierarchy of the PLSS to assure vertical integration of the polygons. The polygon components of the composite are separated for the purposes of publication and for cartographic display and labeling or annotation.