SDE Feature Class
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planningCadastre, boundaries, municipal, municipality, city, limits, incorporated, incorporation, annexation, detachment
The data contained within this collection is designed to fulfill the Arkansas GIS Office legislative mandate to coordinate with the municipalities of the state on digital mapping and to submit a consolidated report of legal boundaries to the United States Census Bureau. Following are the citations of the law. Arkansas Code 14-38-116. Map required with Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office upon incorporation or unincorporation. Before an entity undertakes an incorporation or unincorporation proceeding under this chapter, the entity shall coordinate with the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office for preparation of legal descriptions and digital mapping for the relevant incorporated or unincorporated areas. Arkansas Code 14-40-101. Map required with Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office upon annexation, consolidation, or detachment. Before an entity undertakes an annexation, consolidation, or detachment proceeding under this chapter, the entity shall coordinate with the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office for preparation of legal descriptions and digital mapping for the relevant annexation, consolidation, and detachment areas. SECTION 3. Arkansas Code 15-21-504, concerning the duties, responsibilities, and authority of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board, is amended to add an additional subsection to read as follows: (n)(1) The board shall provide mapping services to an entity undertaking an: (A) Annexation, consolidation, or detachment proceeding under 14-40-101; or (B) Incorporation or unincorporation proceeding under 14-38-116. (2) The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office shall submit a consolidated report of changes in legal boundaries because of an annexation, consolidation, detachment, incorporation, or unincorporation proceeding on an annual basis to the United States Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey.
The municipal boundary change is a publication consisting of multiple individual polygons each representing a unique boundary description. The Arkansas GIS Office maintains this file in coordination with the municipalities of the State. It represents boundary changes across time for any cities beginning in 2016. 2016 is the year beginning in which the Arkansas Legislature mandated the Arkansas GIS Office to coordinate with any entity on municipal boundary changes and report these changes to the US Census Bureau. These change polygons can represent annexation, consolidation, detachment, incorporation and unincorporation of territory representing area per description. These change polygons can also represent geometry corrections where both minor and substantial corrections were needed. Where substantial corrections are needed, the feature will contain a link to pertinent documentation supporting the geometry correction. Various methods to annex, detach, create a new incorporation or unincorporate an existing incorporation may be used. Data developed with coordinate geometry (COGO) from legal descriptions were used. When necessary the data were adjusted to conform to known physical features. This dataset does not represent exact legal boundaries as per surveyed description, but, rather a set of boundaries used for the administrative purposes that conforms to logical & administrative rules.
Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office. Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board.
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Extent
| West | -94.562839 | East | -89.905054 |
| North | 36.501656 | South | 33.048214 |
| Maximum (zoomed in) | 1:5,000 |
| Minimum (zoomed out) | 1:150,000,000 |
Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office. Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board.
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Stores the calculated square miles of area fully contained within the change area.
Arkansas GIS Office
Stores a reference to the County recording associated with the boundary change. These references may be to an adopted City Ordinance, adopted County Court Order, or certified election result. These legal instruments are recorded under this authority: Arkansas Code 14-15-401. Recorders Duties generally. (a) (1) There shall be established in each county in this state an office to be styled the county recorder's office, which shall be kept at the seat of justice of each county. (2) (A) Unless otherwise provided by law, the county recorder is the circuit clerk of the county. (B) In a county that under law has assigned the duties of the county recorder to the county clerk, all Arkansas Code references to circuit clerk that concern recording functions shall mean the county clerk. 14-15-402. Instruments to be recorded. (a) It shall be the duty of each recorder to record in the books provided for his or her office all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, bonds, covenants, defeasances, affidavits, powers of attorney, assignments, contracts, agreements, leases, or other instruments of writing of or writing concerning any lands and tenements or goods and chattels, which shall be proved or acknowledged according to law, that are authorized to be recorded in his or her office.
Arkansas Code 14-15-401
Stores the effective date of the boundary change for that area. For this publication, this is the date the legal instruments were recorded with the Arkansas Secretary of State. The Effective Date Format is YYYYMMDD.
Arkansas GIS Office
Stores the unique numerical code for the city developed under the Federal Information Processing Standards.
Arkansas GIS Office
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Stores a hyperlink to scanned copies of the official government records filed with the Arkansas Secretary of State documenting the boundary change.
Arkansas GIS Office
Stores the calculated acres of area fully contained within the change area.
Arkansas GIS Office
Stores the legal name of the incorporated city.
Arkansas GIS Office
Stores the type of change. There are multiple legal methods in Arkansas law that permit boundary change. See field CHANGEMETHOD for further detail. Changes can also occur due to minor and substantial geometry corrections.
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
Stores a descriptor of the legal method that initiated the change. There are multiple legal methods in Arkansas law that permit boundary change.
Arkansas Code