APPENDIX A. Area Classifications CONTENTS Latitude (See Internal Point) Longitude (See Internal Point) Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC) (See American Magisterial District (See County Subdivision) Indian and Alaska Native Area) Metropolitan Area (MA) A–8 Alaska Native Village (ANV) (See American Indian and Alaska ---------------------------------- Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (See Metropolitan Area) Native Area) Minor Civil Division (MCD) (See County Subdivision) Alaska Native Village Statistical Area (See American Indian and Alaska Native Area) Northern Mariana Islands (See Outlying Areas of the United American Indian and Alaska Native Area A–1 States, see State) -------------------- Outlying Areas of the United States A–9 American Indian Reservation (See American Indian and Alaska ----------------------- Native Area, see County Subdivision) Palau (See Outlying Areas of the United States, see State) American Indian Reservation and Trust Land (See American Parish (Louisiana) (See County) Indian and Alaska Native Area) Parish Governing Authority District (See County Subdivision) American Samoa (See Outlying Areas of the United States, see Place A–9 State) ---------------------------------------------------- Plantation (See County Subdivision) Area Measurement A–3 ----------------------------------------- Population or Housing Unit Density A–10 Assessment District (See County Subdivision) ----------------------- Precinct (See County Subdivision, see Voting District) Block A–3 ----------------------------------------------------- Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) (See Block Group (BG) ----------------------------------------- A–4 Metropolitan Area) Block Numbering Area (BNA) (See Census Tract and Block Puerto Rico (See Outlying Areas of the United States, see State) Numbering Area) Purchase (See County Subdivision) Borough (See County Subdivision, see Place) Borough and Census Area (Alaska) (See County) Region (See Census Region and Census Division) Boundary Changes ---------------------------------------- A–4 Rural (See Urban and Rural) Census Area (Alaska) (See County) Selected States (See County Subdivision, see State) Census Block (See Block) State ---------------------------------------------------- A–11 Census Code (See Geographic Code) Supervisors’ District (See County Subdivision) Census County Division (CCD) (See County Subdivision) Tabulation Block Group (See Block Group) Census Designated Place (CDP) (See Place) TIGER --------------------------------------------------- A–11 Census Division (See Census Region and Census Division) Town (See County Subdivision, see Place) Township (See County Subdivision) Census Geographic Code (See Geographic Code) Tract (See Census Tract and Block Numbering Area) Census Region and Census Division ----------------------- A–4 Census Subarea (Alaska) (See County Subdivision) Tribal Designated Statistical Area (TDSA) (See American Census Tract and Block Numbering Area ------------------- A–5 Indian and Alaska Native Area) Central City (See Metropolitan Area) Tribal Jurisdiction Statistical Area (TJSA) (See American Central Place (See Urbanized Area) Indian and Alaska Native Area) City (See Place) Trust Land (See American Indian and Alaska Native Area) United States A–11 Congressional District (CD) -------------------------------- A–6 -------------------------------------------- Consolidated City (See Place) Unorganized Territory (unorg.) (See County Subdivision) Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) (See Urban and Rural ----------------------------------------- A–11 Metropolitan Area) Urbanized Area (UA) ------------------------------------- A–12 Village (See Place) County A–6 --------------------------------------------------- Virgin Islands (See Outlying Areas of the United States, see State) County Subdivision A–6 --------------------------------------- Voting District (VTD) A–12 Crews of Vessels (See Area Measurement, see Block, see ------------------------------------- Water Area (See Area Measurement) Census Tract and Block Numbering Area) ZIP Code® A–13 Division (See Census Region and Division, see County Subdivision) ----------------------------------------------- Election District (See County Subdivision, see Voting District) Extended City (See Urban and Rural) These definitions are for all geographic entities and Farm (See Urban and Rural) concepts that the Census Bureau will include in its stand- Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Code ard 1990 census data products. Not all entities and con- (See Geographic Code) Geographic Block Group (See Block Group) cepts are shown in any one 1990 census data product. For Geographic Code ----------------------------------------- A–7 a description of geographic areas included in each data Geographic Presentation ---------------------------------- A–7 product, see appendix F. Gore (See County Subdivision) Grant (See County Subdivision) Guam (See Outlying Areas of the United States, see State) AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE AREA Hierarchical Presentation (See Geographic Presentation) Historic Areas of Oklahoma (See American Indian and Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC) Alaska Native Area, Tribal Jurisdiction Statistical Area) Historical Counts ----------------------------------------- A–8 Alaska Native Regional Corporations (ANRC’s) are cor- Incorporated Place (See Place) Independent City (See County) porate entities established under the Alaska Native Claims Internal Point --------------------------------------------- A–8 Settlement Act of 1972, Public Law 92-203, as amended by Inventory Presentation (See Geographic Presentation) Public Law 94-204, to conduct both business and nonprofit Land Area (See Area Measurement) affairs of Alaska Natives. Alaska is divided into AREA CLASSIFICATIONS A–1 12 ANRC’s that cover the entire State, except for the Federal reservations may cross State boundaries, and Annette Islands Reserve. The boundaries of the 12 ANRC’s Federal and State reservations may cross county, county were established by the Department of the Interior, in subdivision, and place boundaries. For reservations that cooperation with Alaska Natives. Each ANRC was designed cross State boundaries, only the portion of the reservations to include, as far as practicable, Alaska Natives with a in a given State are shown in the data products for that common heritage and common interests. The ANRC bound- State; the entire reservations are shown in data products aries for the 1990 census were identified by the Bureau of for the United States. Land Management. A 13th region was established for Alaska Natives who are not permanent residents and who Each American Indian reservation is assigned a four- chose not to enroll in one of the 12 ANRC’s; no census digit census code ranging from 0001 through 4989. These products are prepared for the 13th region. ANRC’s were census codes are assigned in alphabetical order of Ameri- first identified for the 1980 census. Each ANRC is assigned can Indian reservations nationwide, except that joint areas a two-digit census code ranging from 07 through 84. These appear at the end of the code range. Each American Indian census codes are assigned in alphabetical order of the reservation also is assigned a five-digit FIPS code; because ANRC’s. the FIPS codes are assigned in alphabetical sequence of American Indian reservations within each State, the FIPS code is different in each State for reservations in more than Alaska Native Village (ANV) Statistical Area one State. Alaska Native villages (ANV’s) constitute tribes, bands, Trust Land—Trust lands are property associated with a clans, groups, villages, communities, or associations in particular American Indian reservation or tribe, held in trust Alaska that are recognized pursuant to the Alaska Native by the Federal Government. Trust lands may be held in Claims Settlement Act of 1972, Public Law 92-203. Because trust either for a tribe (tribal trust land) or for an individual ANV’s do not have legally designated boundaries, the member of a tribe (individual trust land). Trust lands Census Bureau has established Alaska Native village recognized for the 1990 census comprise all tribal trust statistical areas (ANVSA’s) for statistical purposes. For the lands and inhabited individual trust lands located outside of 1990 census, the Census Bureau cooperated with officials a reservation boundary. As with other American Indian of the nonprofit corporation within each participating Alaska areas, trust lands may be located in more than one State. Native Regional Corporation (ANRC), as well as other Only the trust lands in a given State are shown in the data knowledgeable officials, to delineate boundaries that encom- products for that State; all trust lands associated with a pass the settled area associated with each ANV. ANVSA’s reservation or tribe are shown in data products for the are located within ANRC’s and do not cross ANRC bound- United States. The Census Bureau first reported data for aries. ANVSA’s for the 1990 census replace the ANV’s that tribal trust lands for the 1980 census. the Census Bureau recognized for the 1980 census. Each ANVSA is assigned a four-digit census code Trust lands are assigned a four-digit census code and a ranging from 6001 through 8989. Each ANVSA also is five-digit FIPS code, the same as that for the reservation assigned a five-digit FIPS code. Both the census and FIPS with which they are associated. Trust lands not associated codes are assigned in alphabetical order of ANVSA’s. with a reservation