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Title: Atlanta Regional Commission Metropolitan Statistical Areas

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Dates

  • Issued: 2002
  • Coverage: 1990

Summary

This polygon datalayer depicts the metropolitan statistical areas with associated attribute data for the Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) 10-county region. This layer includes an additional 10 counties. ARC documentation states that: This Theme was derived from The State of Georgia CountiesTheme (GACOUNTY) which is based on U.S. Census Bureau census tracts. The geographic extent of this Theme is the 20-county Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for the Atlanta Region which includes ARC's 10 counties plus the counties of Pickens, Bartow, Forsyth, Barrow, Paulding, Walton, Carroll, Newton, Coweta, and Spalding.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Atlanta
  • Georgia (United States)
  • Municipal
  • Census
  • Metropolitan areas
  • Cities and towns
  • Metropolitan Statistical Areas
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-85.338234, -83.50573, 34.563683, 33.178562)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-85.338234, -83.50573, 34.563683, 33.178562)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). Atlanta Regional Commission Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-arcstat

Format

Shapefile