SDE Feature Class
Tags
ward, city, towns, election, municipal, wards, town, municipality, city council, incorporated, vote, precinct, cities
The data contained within this collection is an INCOMPLETE publication of the municipal wards for cities in Arkansas. Arkansas law permits city government to elect city council members AT-LARGE or by dividing the city into wards of substantially equal population, whereby the council member resides within and represents the ward in which they live.
The municipal ward boundary is a publication of polygons of city wards in Arkansas. The Arkansas GIS Office maintains this file in coordination with the municipalities of the State. It represents the contemporary wards of the city. The exterior ward boundaries are derived from the municipal boundary. When necessary the data were adjusted to conform to known physical features. This dataset does not represent exact legal boundaries as per surveyed description, but, rather a set of boundaries used for the administrative purposes that conforms to logical & administrative rules. These polygons may be edited for the purpose of small spatial alignment changes based on new, enhanced or improved supporting basemap data, such as orthoimagery, public land survey, or cadastral data that improves the spatial accuracy of the existing geometry
Arkansas GIS Office
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Extent
| West | -94.575125 | East | -89.798428 |
| North | 36.501469 | South | 33.045733 |
| Maximum (zoomed in) | 1:5,000 |
| Minimum (zoomed out) | 1:150,000,000 |
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Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
Stores the legal name of the incorporated city.
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Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Stores the type of edit revision to the boundary polygon.
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Stores the unique numerical code for the city developed under the Federal Information Processing Standards.
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Describes the statutory classification of the municipality established in state law as follows: 14-37-103. Population limits. (a) (1) All municipal corporations having over two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class. (2) All cities having five hundred (500) inhabitants or more and fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the second class. (3) All others shall be incorporated towns and shall be governed by the provisions of this subtitle. (b) (1) Any incorporated towns of fewer than five hundred (500) inhabitants who have voted to be a city of the second class under § 14-37-112 shall continue to be a city of the second class. (2) Any city having a population of one thousand five hundred (1,500) or more may become a city of the first class upon the enactment of an ordinance therefor, with all powers, authority, and responsibility of other cities of the first class.
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Stores the date of the geometry revision. This date generally occurs after the effective date. Revised date format is YYYYMMDD.
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Stores a shortened code representing the name of the ward.
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Stores the effective date of the latest boundary change of the city. For this publication, this is the date the legal instruments were recorded with the City Clerk / County Clerk. The Effective Date Format is YYYYMMDD.
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Stores the formal name of the ward.
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Stores the population totals for each ward as reported to this Office by the City or their representative. Population totals are based on the 2020 Census PL Redistricting files.