Census County Subdivisions (Alaska)
The divisions of each Alaska county as the Census Bureau draws them each year: townships and towns in the states where those are local governments, and statistical county divisions where they are not. Together they cover the whole state with no gaps, so they are the local unit for mapping or summarizing anything across rural and urban areas alike, and each one's current population is in the Bureau's annual population estimates, which join to these outlines.
- Published by
- US Census Bureau
- Source
- Census
- Original data
- tigerweb.geo.census.gov
- Terms of use
- Not copyrighted; cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source
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What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 11 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | Subdivision identifier: state + county + subdivision FIPS |
county_geoid | Its county: state + county FIPS |
cousub_fips | Subdivision FIPS code |
name | Name with its kind, e.g. Liberty township |
basename | Name without its kind, e.g. Liberty |
lsad | Legal/statistical area description code |
funcstat | Functional status: A active government, S statistical |
aland_m2 | Land area, square meters |
awater_m2 | Water area, square meters |
intptlat | Internal point latitude (inside the subdivision) |
intptlon | Internal point longitude |