HIFLD OPEN Consolidated Cities

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census; United States Department of Homeland Security

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Project Citation: 

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, and United States Department of Homeland Security. HIFLD OPEN Consolidated Cities. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-10-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E238994V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title HIFLD OPEN Consolidated Cities
Summary:  View help for Summary A Consolidated City is a unit of local government for which the functions of an incorporated place and its county or minor civil division (MCD) have merged. This action results in both the primary incorporated place and the county or MCD continuing to exist as legal entities, even though the county or MCD performs few or no governmental functions and has few or no elected officials. Where this occurs, and where one or more other incorporated places in the county or MCD continue to function as separate governments, even though they have been included in the consolidated government, the primary incorporated place is referred to as a consolidated city. The Census Bureau classifies the separately incorporated places within the consolidated city as place entities and creates a separate place (balance) record for the portion of the consolidated city not within any other place.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms HIFLD Open; GIS; Consolidated City; Boundaries; Cities
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 8/28/2024 – 8/28/2024
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Archived from the HIFLD Open GIS data repository, which was deactivated on August 26, 2025.


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