Service Description: This datalayer was created for the purposes of providing an up-to-date polygon version of the town boundaries for the 351 communites 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 single-part polygons, in which islands or sections of municipalities separated by water are each represented by its own feature.
Service ItemId: 5e1e6af0be8f45f4bf02a73017641cec
Has Versioned Data: false
Max Record Count: 2000
Supported query Formats: JSON
Supports applyEdits with GlobalIds: False
Supports Shared Templates: True
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Description: 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.
Massachusetts Highway Survey Section, MassGIS
Spatial Reference: 26986 (26986)
Initial Extent:
XMin: 229954.188725201
YMin: 899528.434743655
XMax: 251217.025212371
YMax: 913449.318919067
Spatial Reference: 26986 (26986)
Full Extent:
XMin: 234946.152500011
YMin: 904323.874600004
XMax: 238824.802500002
YMax: 908294.294599999
Spatial Reference: 26986 (26986)
Units: esriMeters
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Supported Operations:
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