Municipalities Within Enviroatlas Boundaries (PDF)
Communities within EnviroAtlas Boundaries How are EnviroAtlas boundaries created? The EnviroAtlas team then assessed each community EnviroAtlas community boundaries are derived from the boundary individually to ensure that it included all the area 2010 US Census Bureau’s Urbanized Areas (UAs). The relevant to the principal community of focus and did not UAs are created using Census Blocks that “comprise a extend far beyond that community. Where available, the densely settled core of … blocks that meet minimum municipal boundaries were compared to the EnviroAtlas population density requirements, along with adjacent boundaries to ensure that the municipal core of the principal territory containing non-residential urban land uses as well community was fully included. as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled Because EnviroAtlas boundaries are based on Census core.” UAs must have at least 50,000 people. Because the Urbanized Areas rather than municipal boundaries, they EnviroAtlas community component uses the Census Block often contain many municipalities near the target city. Group (each comprised of 4-10 Census Blocks) as a unit of analysis, community boundaries were created from the UAs How do I use this document? rather than reflecting the UAs themselves. Page 2 of this document contains a table of contents listing each EnviroAtlas target community. Each community name Block groups were initially included if 50% of their is a link to that community’s page within this document. population was within the UA boundary. From there, all EnviroAtlas communities are included in this list if they are holes were filled and all islands were excluded.
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