Allegheny County Municipal Boundaries

This dataset demarcates the municipal boundaries in Allegheny County.  Data was created to portray the boundaries of
the 130 Municipalities in Allegheny County the attribute table includes
additional descriptive information including Councils of Government (COG) affiliation (regional governing and coordinating bodies
comprised of several bordering municipalities), School District,
Congressional District, FIPS and County Municipal Code and County Council
District.

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:  current

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