THEME: Populated Places 
 
 
COVER: 	 towns 
SCALE: 	 1:250,000 
SOURCE:  USGS 1:250,000 Quadrangle Sheets; or Latitude-Longitude placement 
DATE: 	 Updated January 1994 for annotation, April 1995 for locations
LAST UPDATE: 4/27/95
TAPE CREATED BY ADNR ON: 7/27/95 
 
ABSTRACT/DESCRIPTION:  
 
Locations of statewide towns and villages were entered by latitude-longitude, digizitizing from 
USGS 1:250,000 quadrangle maps, and heads-up digitizing from USGS 1:250,000 quadrangle 
maps based on relative positioning of digital hydrography and digital township outlines.  
 
The coverage has several items in the .PAT which allow for reselects on the town points:  
 
 Item 			Description 
 ----			-------------------
 name 			name of town; 20 characters 
 class 			home rule, first or second class, etc.; 35 characters 
 pop 			population size; 6 integer (1990 Census) 
 incorp_date    	incorporation year where applicable; 4 integer 
 ancsa 			town that exists due to ANCSA legislation, 1 character 
 m8x11 			allows reselection for anno subclass anno8x11, 1 character 
 
 
Several annotation subclasses are available:  
 
 Subclass 	Annotations 	Purpose 
 --------	-----------	--------------------
 anno1mil 	312 		1:1,000,000 scale maps 
 anno25mil 	312 		1:2,500,000 scale maps 
 land 		8 		physiographic land features at 1:2,500,000 
 country 	2 		labels for Canada and Russia at 1:2,500,000 
 annoqmq 	318 		1:250,000 quad maps 
 anno8x11	22		8.5 by 11 inch maps, to display only 22 town names