Source:
CT DEP
Data Coverage: Statewide
Publisher: Connecticut DEP, Environmental and Geographic Information
Center (EGIC)
Publication Date: 1995
Data Collection Scale: 1:24000
Data Collection Date: 1969-1984, depending on quad
Update Frequency: Not Updated
Brief Description
This is a 1:24,000-scale datalayer of Connecticut Towns. It includes two files
with line and polygon features. The line file includes state, county, town,
and coastline boundaries. The polygon file includes polygons that represent
the geographic extent of each town, including coastal islands. Polygons are
assigned town numbers to identify them. This datalayer is based on the town
boundary information that appears on the U.S. Geological Survey 7½ (USGS)
minute topographic quadrangle maps that cover the State of Connecticut. It was
derived from the USGS Digital Line Graph Files (DLG) for the 1:24,000 scale
Connecticut quadrangle maps published between 1969 and 1984.
The shoreline boundary in this datalayer is based on the coastline in the hydrography
datalayer. For consistency between related datalayers, this same hydrography
coastline is included in other datalayers such as hydrography subset, named
streams, major basins, regional basins, subregional basins, local basins, basins,
soils, surficial materials, bedrock geology, and quaternary geology.