Description
This dataset portrays the boundaries of the County Council Districts in Allegheny County. The dataset is based on municipal boundaries and City of Pittsburgh ward boundaries and was updated as the result of reapportionment in September 2002. It has also been attributed with the current representatives' names.
If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.
Category: Civic Vitality and Governance
Organization: Allegheny County
Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services
Temporal Coverage: 2002-present
Data Notes:
Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot
Development Notes: none
Other: none
Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)
Frequency - Data Change: As needed
Frequency - Publishing: As needed
Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas
Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| KML | KML | alcogisallegheny-county-council-districts.kml | Open resource |
| GeoJSON | GeoJSON | Open resource | |
| Shapefile | ZIP | alcogisallegheny-county-council-districts.zip | Open resource |
| CSV | CSV | Open resource | |
| ArcGIS Hub Dataset | HTML | Open resource | |
| Esri Rest API | HTML | Open resource |