Municipality boundaries for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Boundaries of municipalities within Pennsylvania as delineated for the PennDOT Type 10 general highway maps. Additional information comes from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Municipal Services. This layer contains all classifications of municipality including first and second class townships, boroughs, cities and the town.

This dataset demarcates the municipal boundaries in Allegheny County. Data was created to portray the boundaries of the 130 Municipalities in Allegheny County the attribute table includes additional descriptive information including Councils of Government (COG) affiliation (regional governing and coordinating bodies comprised of several bordering municipalities), School District, Congressional District, FIPS and County Municipal Code and County Council District.

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (https://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (https://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Information Technology

Temporal Coverage: current

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: none

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)

Frequency - Data Change: As needed

Frequency - Publishing: As needed

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

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Reference dataset showing the political boundaries of the municipal subdivisions in Dauphin County. Most likely derived from a PennDOT dataset in the early 1990s and updated as needed with the concurrence of the impacted municipalities.

An official index map of tax maps by municipality for the County of Berks Assessment Department.

Webmap of Allegheny municipalities and parcel data. Zoom for a clickable parcel map with owner name, property photograph, and link to the County Real Estate website for property sales information.

Crawford County PA municipal election precincts areas. Data was created for web map/application use within public view.

Bucks County Municipal Zoning

Abstract This paper discusses the problem of city limits of Belém to the concepts of territory and territoriality border. It shows that inaccuracies and inadequacies in the laws establishing the border limits of Belém with other cities have resulted in conflicts of maps, public management, beyond the division of occupations/housing, causing several problems to cities managers, and especially to residents of conflicting areas. By analyzing studies conducted by public authorities with the aim of redefining the limits, we reveal that such studies are incomplete and fail not to consider aspects concerning territoriality of the groups involved in the issue. Assuming that the definition of boundaries is much more than a matter of mapping technique, although this is important, argues that the proposition of new municipal limits should consider the concepts of territory and territoriality and border present the methodology developed by the paper’s authors whom are technicians of the City Development Company of Belém.

Pennsylvania Water Wells Points representing approximate locations of water wells within Pennsylvania that are recorded in the Pennsylvania Groundwater Information System (PaGWIS). In addition to identifying and location information, layer attributes include water use, well use, and depth to bedrock (if bedrock was reached). Data does not include public-water supplies. More extensive water-well data can be found by searching for specific water wells on the interactive PaGEODE web-map application at https://gis.dcnr.pa.gov/pageode/. This ArcGIS Online copy of the dataset is updated 1 time/month. FIELDALIASTYPEDESCRIPTIONPAWellIDPA Well IDStringUnique identifier assigned by PaGWIS to identify the well.CountyCounty NameStringName of the county in which the well is locatedMunicipalityMunicipality NameStringName of the municipality in which the well is locatedQuadrangleQuadrangle NameStringName of the quadrangle in which the well is locatedWell_AddressWell AddressStringStreet address associated with the water-well site as entered on the water-well record by the driller.Well_Zip_CodeWell Zip CodeStringZip code where the well is locatedLatitudeDDLatitudeDoubleLatitude (in decimal degrees) where the well is locatedLongitudeDDLongitudeDoubleLongitude (in decimal degrees) where the well is locatedLocation_MethodLocation Collection MethodStringMethod used to collect the coordinates of the wellLocal_Well_NumberLocal Well NumberStringA well identification number used by a local agency that differs from the PA Well IDTopographyTopography TypeStringType of topography the well is located withinSite_TypeType of SiteStringType of site the well is located onBedrock_Depth_FTDepth to Bedrock (Ft)StringDepth to Bedrock as measured in feetBedrock_ReachedBedrock ReachedStringWas bedrock reached during the excavation of the wellData_SourceSource of RecordStringSource of RecordData_ReliabilityData ReliabilityStringInternal assessment of the reliability of the dataWater_UseWater UseStringClassification of how the extracted water is usedWell_UseWell UseStringClassification of the well usageWell_DepthWell DepthStringDepth of the well in feetWell_Yield_GPMWell Yield GPMStringYield of the well (gallon/min)

These features were developed to translate the zoning map ofthe municipalities of Crawford County, PA, to publicly-facing GIS information. The information here is an unofficial representation of zoning districts and those districts’ designations for the convenience of the public on the Crawford County GIS Webpage. The data was made according to the Crawford County Planning Office’s interpretation of the municipality’s official zoning map, and was adapted to conform to the County’s existing GIS data. The information here is not a substitute for a zoning officer’s determination of a zoning district and should not be used for making decisions of consequence.

A Municipal Waste Operation is a DEP primary facility type related to the Waste Management Municipal Waste Program. The sub-facility types related to Municipal Waste Operations that are included are: Composting: Includes facilities that use land for processing municipal waste by composting. Composting is a process that biologically decomposes organic waste under controlled anaerobic or aerobic conditions to yield a humus-like product. Land Application: Includes facilities that uses agricultural utilization or land reclamation of waste. Sewage sludge is land-applied for its nutrient value or as a soil conditioner. Landfill - Abandoned: The Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project collects geospatial and descriptive data for closed and abandoned landfills throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Locations for sites were determined from historic records such as microfiche, index card, topographic map, and staff personal files, and then compiled into site lists. Each of the six DEP regions is staffed with summer interns who physically locate the sites and collect the data for the project. The purpose of the Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project is to determine the location of abandoned and closed landfills in order to catalog potential environmental hazards. The data is intended for internal government and public consumption, in order to keep property sales, clean-up efforts, and land development well informed. For metadata on the ALI Project, see Abandoned Landfill Metadata. Landfill: A landfill is a facility that uses land for the disposal of municipal waste. Processing Facility: A processing facility is a transfer station, composting facility, resource recovery facility, or a facility that reduces the volume or bulk of municipal waste for offsite reuse. Resource Recovery: A resource recovery is a facility that provides for the extraction and utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste. The facility can be a mechanical extraction facility or a combustion facility. Transfer Station: A transfer station is a facility that receives and processes or temporarily stores municipal waste at a location other than the generation site. This sub-facility facilitates the transportation or transfer of municipal waste to a processing or disposal facility.

A Municipal Waste Operation is a DEP primary facility type related to the Waste Management Municipal Waste Program. The sub-facility types related to Municipal Waste Operations that are included are: Composting: Includes facilities that use land for processing municipal waste by composting. Composting is a process that biologically decomposes organic waste under controlled anaerobic or aerobic conditions to yield a humus-like product. Land Application: Includes facilities that uses agricultural utilization or land reclamation of waste. Sewage sludge is land-applied for its nutrient value or as a soil conditioner. Landfill - Abandoned: The Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project collects geospatial and descriptive data for closed and abandoned landfills throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Locations for sites were determined from historic records such as microfiche, index card, topographic map, and staff personal files, and then compiled into site lists. Each of the six DEP regions is staffed with summer interns who physically locate the sites and collect the data for the project. The purpose of the Abandoned Landfill Inventory Project is to determine the location of abandoned and closed landfills in order to catalog potential environmental hazards. The data is intended for internal government and public consumption, in order to keep property sales, clean-up efforts, and land development well informed. For metadata on the ALI Project, see Abandoned Landfill Metadata. Landfill: A landfill is a facility that uses land for the disposal of municipal waste. Processing Facility: A processing facility is a transfer station, composting facility, resource recovery facility, or a facility that reduces the volume or bulk of municipal waste for offsite reuse. Resource Recovery: A resource recovery is a facility that provides for the extraction and utilization of materials or energy from municipal waste. The facility can be a mechanical extraction facility or a combustion facility. Transfer Station: A transfer station is a facility that receives and processes or temporarily stores municipal waste at a location other than the generation site. This sub-facility facilitates the transportation or transfer of municipal waste to a processing or disposal facility.

A map used to identify land use and zoning designations.

A map used to identify land use and zoning designations.

Stormwater management involves the control of water that runs off the surface of the land from rain or melting ice or snow. The volume, or amount of runoff and its rate of runoff, substantially increase as land development occurs. Construction of impervious surfaces, such as roofs and parking lots, and the installation of storm sewer pipes which efficiently collect and discharge runoff, prevent the infiltration of rainfall into the soil. Management of stormwater is necessary to compensate for the possible impacts of development such as frequent flooding, erosion and sedimentation problems, concentration of flow on adjacent properties, damages to roads, bridges and other infrastructure as well as non-point source pollution washed off from impervious surfaces. The Pennsylvania legislature enacted the Storm Water Management Act (No.167) in 1978 to authorize a program of comprehensive watershed stormwater management which retains local implementation and enforcement of stormwater ordinances similar to local responsibility of administration of subdivision and land development regulations. Under the Act, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) provides grant money to counties to develop stormwater management plans for designated watersheds. This planning effort results in the incorporation of sound engineering standards and criteria into local codes and ordinances to manage runoff from new development in a coordinated, watershed-wide approach. Counties develop stormwater plans for each of their watersheds within their boundaries. DEP develops grant agreements with counties to pay for 75 percent of the cost to prepare the plans. Upon completion of a plan by a county and approval by DEP, municipalities located in the watershed adopt ordinances consistent with the plan. Developers are then required to follow the local drainage regulations that incorporate the standards of the watershed plan when preparing their land development plan. Although not all watersheds have been studied, developers in non-studied areas are still required to follow any local drainage regulations adopted under the Municipalities Planning Code. County boundaries within Pennsylvania as delineated for the PennDOT Type 10 general highway map.