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Layer: Incorporated Areas (ID: 1)

Name: Incorporated Areas

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Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Update: 2022-06-27: Adjusted county boundary geometry to better match the WV DEP 24k topo DRG service. Added new municipal boundaries for Welch, Kimball, St. Marys and Belmont.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Update: 2022-04-14: Boundary between Lincoln and Logan counties adjusted along Guyandotte River to comply with an order of the Lincoln County Circuit Court; Civil Action 16-C-32, dated 4 April 2016. The boundary section in questions is near the community of Harts, Lincoln County, and lies between -82.064067, 38009450; and -82.071527, 38.007447.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>04/21/2021</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Town of Poca, Putnam county - Boundary of Town of Poca in Putnam County was updated using the updated boundary provided by community. Source of oriignal data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_Putnam_County\Export_Output_4.shp</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>12/03/2019</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>FEMA Region III data was joined to th featureclass. All of the the FEMA data is in the end of table. FEMA data starts after OBJECTID_12_13_14__15_16_17</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Orgiinal FEMA Region III data used for join is located at O:\inlandwaters\Flood_Data\Community_Status_Community_Boundary\From_FEMA_RegionIII\FEMA R3 Community Data_CEP_September_Report_for_WV 20191125c sorted POLICY.xlsx</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>10/01/2019</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Updates:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Community boundaries were updated for the following communities:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. Town of Smithers, Fayette County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>2. City of Mount Hope, Fayette County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>3. City of Mullens, Wyoming County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>4. City of Elkins, Randolph County</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Modifications to above mentioned communities are based on data provided by </SPAN><SPAN>Scott McAfee (</SPAN><A href="mailto:scott.mcafee@fema.dhs.gov" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN><SPAN>scott.mcafee@fema.dhs.gov</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN>), </SPAN><SPAN>FEMA Region 3 on 9/6/2019.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Original data that has been used to process these communities is stored at following location: \\gistc-filesrv1\onlineDataStorage\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_FEMA\cl2020_v01.gdb\cl2020_v01.gdb\wv_sample</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The West Virginia GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) created this community boundary feature class using Census incorporated area 2018 data (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html). </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Source Location (O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\tlgdb_2018_a_54_wv.gdb) and County boundaries (24K) (source location- \\gistc-filesrv2\vectorData\Boundaries\Boundaries_GDB.gdb\POLITICALBOUNDARY\POLITICBOUNDARY_county24k). </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This Feature class was updated for Tucker County with community=provided incorporated areas, as Census has older data. (Source of Tucker county incorporated data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\Tucker County Town Boundaries_20181210).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>There are 55 counties and 232 communities in West Virginia. However, 8 communities (Wheeling, Weirton, Paden City, Montgomery, Smithers, Huntington, Nitro and Alderson) are split between two counties. For risk analysis projects, these incorporated areas have been split along county boundaries. As a result of the split there are 240 incorporated area polygons and 55 unincorporated area polygons. In total, this feature class contains 290 polygons.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This feature class has also been joined to</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>1. NFIP table (updated as of Oct 2018) source location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\NFIP_Policy_asof_20180930.xlsx</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>2. CRS table for communities (updated as of Oct 2018) source Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\CRS_Rating_asof_oct2018.pdf</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>3. NFIP Community Status Table (updated as of 4/20/2018) Souce Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\FEMA_CommunityStatusReport_asof_20180403.csv</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>4. West Virginia Regional Planning Development Council Regions - Source Location - http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/dataset.php?ID=30</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>

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