Massachusetts city and town boundaries, drawn with yellow lines, and labeled with yellow municipal names, ideal for display atop aerial photography.Please see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-municipalities for full metadata.

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ESRI point feature class representing City of Somerville, Massachusetts squares, hills and other commonly referenced locations.

The political boundary datalayer is a polygon representation of town boundaries created from arcs developed from survey coordinates extracted from the 68-volume Harbor and Lands Commission Town Boundary Atlas for the 351 communities (cities and towns) in Massachusetts. The Atlas was published in the early 1900's and is maintained by the Survey Section of Massachusetts Highway Department. For communities with a coastal boundary, MassGIS has collaborated with Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Department of Environmental Protection to complete a 1:12000 scale coastline. The boundary for the coastline was defined as being the upland side of tidal flats and rocky inter-tidal zones. Note that the 351 communities are the official municipal names, not including "villages" or other sections of towns.This datalayer was created for the purposes of providing an up-to-date polygon version of the town boundaries for the 351 cities and towns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The legislative intent for some boundaries could not be mapped. Boundaries where that is true are identified in the attribute information. This layer contains multi-part polygons, one for each municipality. The coastline on this layer has been generalized for small-scale cartography and faster display in web map services.See the layer metadata for details.

Massachusetts Cities and Towns - Yellow boundaries and official municipality name labels. Boundaries from survey-based coordinates. See http://www.mass.gov/itd/townsurvey for metadata.

This collection contains the names and descriptions of taxable property of nearly 38,000 individuals who resided in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771. Data items include type and value (in pounds, shillings, and pence) of real estate, buildings, and other assets, as well as tabulation of livestock and farm commodities produced. Specific variables pertaining to value of real estate, buildings, and other assets include annual worth of whole real estate, tons of vessels, value of trading stock, value of factorage or commissions, value of money lent at interest, and types of buildings (e.g., tanhouses, stillhouses, warehouses, gristmills, superficial feet of wharf, ironworks). With respect to tabulation of livestock, variables provide information on number of horses, oxen, cows, goats, sheep, and swine. Data describing farm commodities cover acres of pasture, number of cows the pasture will keep, acres of tillage, bushels of grain produced per year, barrels of cider produced per year, acres of salt marsh, tons of salt marsh hay per year, acres of English and upland mowing land, tons of English and upland hay per year, acres of fresh meadow, and tons of fresh meadow hay per year. Other variables specify taxpayer name, title (e.g., widow, doctor, blacksmith), and status of taxpayer (e.g., decedent, landlord, free Negro).

Census block groups for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut as defined by the 2020 U.S. Census. Census data has been supplemented with town names (RIGIS 2001; MassGIS 2021; CTDEEP 2005), watersheds (USGS WBD 2023), and NBEP study areas (NBEP 2017). This dataset is intended for general planning, graphic display, and GIS analysis.

Postal Codes Dataset for Morocco, MA including name of the city, town, or place, various administrative divisions and alternative city names.

This table of street names is based on the street directory maintained by the Department of Public Works & Parks (DPW&P) of the City of Worcester, MA. For labeling purposes, the unique name identifier, Street Name ID (NEW_NM_ID), corresponds with appropriate road centerline segments in the separate Street Centerlines dataset. To view the Street Directory visit the City of Worcester Street Directory.Informing Worcester is the City of Worcester's open data portal where interested parties can obtain public information at no cost.

This file contains the 176 cities and towns in Massachusetts for which MBTA bus, rapid transit, or commuter rail service is provided. This data is based off of the 2010 census. The legislative intent for some boundaries could not be mapped. Boundaries where that is true are identified in the attribute information. Name Description Data Type Example town Full name for the MA town or city identification. String Boston town_id MassGIS Town-ID Code (alphabetical, 1-351) Numeric 34 sum_acres Area covered by the town or city in acres. Double 31304.22 sum_square Area covered by the town or city in square miles. Double 48.91 MassDOT/MBTA shall not be held liable for any errors in this data. This includes errors of omission, commission, errors concerning the content of the data, and relative and positional accuracy of the data. This data cannot be construed to be a legal document. Primary sources from which this data was compiled must be consulted for verification of information contained in this data.

This table of street names is based on the street directory maintained by the Department of Public Works & Parks (DPW&P) of the City of Worcester, MA. The unique name identifier, Street Name ID (NEW_NM_ID), corresponds with appropriate road centerline segments for labeling purposes. City of Worcester, MA Street Listing

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Massachusetts Cities and Towns - Yellow boundaries and official municipality name labels. Boundaries from survey-based coordinates. This map service is designed for use atop aerial imagery or other dark basemaps.See https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-municipalities for metadata.

This table of street names is based on the street directory maintained by the Department of Public Works & Parks (DPW&P) of the City of Worcester, MA. For labeling purposes, the unique name identifier, Street Name ID (NEW_NM_ID), corresponds with appropriate road centerline segments in the separate Street Centerlines dataset. To view the Street Directory visit the City of Worcester Street Directory.Informing Worcester is the City of Worcester's open data portal where interested parties can obtain public information at no cost.

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This dataset includes street centerlines in the City of Worcester, MA. The separate Street Name Table can be joined to this dataset to add the associated street names to the respective street centerlines.The fields "Official" and "Admin" enable users to select or draw centerlines for various purposes. For example, DPW&P maintains the Official Street Map and will use the "Official = yes" to model this. Major Roads are categorized as public streets on the official map (Official = 0 Admin = 0) or interstates, which are not on the official map and administered by other jurisdictions (Official = 1 Admin = 4). Informing Worcester is the City of Worcester's open data portal where interested parties can obtain public information at no cost.

Boundary of Boston. The political boundary datalayer is a polygon representation of town boundaries created from arcs developed from survey coordinates extracted from the 68-volume Harbor and Lands Commission Town Boundary Atlas for the 351 communities (cities and towns) in Massachusetts. The Atlas was published in the early 1900's and is maintained by the Survey Section of Massachusetts Highway Department. For communities with a coastal boundary, MassGIS has collaborated with Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Department of Environmental Protection to complete a 1:12000 scale coastline. The boundary for the coastline was defined as being the upland side of tidal flats and rocky inter-tidal zones. Note that the 351 communities are the official municipal names, not including "villages" or other sections of towns.