Connecticut House Districts is a 1:100,000-scale, polygon feature-based layer that defines the Reapportionment of Connecticut House District boundaries as reflected in the State House of Representatives Redistricting Plan 2011 for the State of Connecticut. Attribute information is comprised of codes that identify individual House Districts.
Connecticut House Districts is not intended for maps printed at map scales greater or more detailed than 1:100,000 scale (1 inch = 1.578 mile).
For additional information, contact the Connecticut General Assembly.
House Redistricting Plan date
No restrictions or legal prerequisites for using the data. The data is suitable for use at appropriate scale, and is not intended for maps printed at scales greater or more detailed than 1:100,000 scale (1 inch = 1.578 mile). Although this data set has been used by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as to the accuracy of the data and or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in the use of these data or related materials. The user assumes the entire risk related to the use of these data. Once the data is distributed to the user, modifications made to the data by the user should be noted in the metadata. When printing this data on a map or using it in a software application, analysis, or report, please acknowledge the State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as the source for this information. For example, include the following data source description when printing this layer on a map: House Districts - From the Connecticut House Districts layer, compiled and published by CT General Assembly and CT DEEP. Source map scale is 1:100,000.
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All attributes have valid values.
Polygon features conform to the following topological rules. Polygons are single part. There are no duplicate polygons. Polygons do not self overlap. Polygons do not overlap other polygons. It is not known whether automated procedures or other software tests or topology rules were performed to guarantee desired topology other than visual inspection.
The data is complete and reflects the 2011 House District boundaries for the State of Connecticut at 1:100,000 scale.
The horizontal positional accuracy of this data is unknown.
This data source is a shapefile named house.shp with district boundaries defined in Geographic Coordinates (latitute and longitude), North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). It was downloaded from the Connecticut State Assembly website, http://www.cga.ct.gov/red2011/.
This data source is a shapefile named House_Districts.shp with district boundaries defined in the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System, NAD83. Map units are in feet.
House_Districts is in GeoDatabase Feature Class format.
Datum conversion - Using ArcGIS software, the shapefile named house.shp, having a file date of Nov 30, 2011, was converted from geographic coordinates to the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System of 1983 (NAD83) and empty fields were deleted to create shapefile named House_Districts.shp.
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Convert to GeoDatabase Feature Class format - Defined new Feature Class named House_Districts; and imported the attribute definitions, loaded features and imported metadata from House_Districts.shp shapefile. Spatial Reference Properties for Feature Class: Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Connecticut_FIPS_0600_Feet XY Domain MinX: 100000; MaxX: 2247483.645 XY Domain MinY: 200000; MaxY: 2347483.645 Precision: 1000
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Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
House District
State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly
House District Number
State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly
Each House District polygon feature is uniquely identified according to its House District number, which ranges from1 to 151.
House District maps are available at http://www.cga.ct.gov/red2011/
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Although this data set has been used by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as to the accuracy of the data and or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the State of Connecticut, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in the use of these data or related materials. The user assumes the entire risk related to the use of these data. Once the data is distributed to the user, modifications made to the data by the user should be noted in the metadata.
The data distributor does not provide custom GIS analysis or mapping services. Data is available in a standard format and may be converted to other formats, projections, coordinate systems, or selected for specific geographic regions by the party receiving the data.
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