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City Boundaries: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

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Title
City Boundaries: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015
Description
This polygon shapefile depicts the administrative boundaries for cities over which the County of Santa Cruz, California holds authority: Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. These include properties owned by cities but outside of contiguous city boundaries while still under city jurisdiction. This coverage does not include unincorporated areas. This coverage displays Includes properties outside of city boundaries, but under city jurisdiction. These boundaries have been approved by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of Solano County. LAFCO was created in 1963 to encourage orderly formation of local government agencies, preserve agricultural land resources and discourage urban sprawl. LAFCos are responsible for coordinating logical and timely changes in local governmental boundaries, conducting special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure and preparing a sphere of influence for each city and special district within each county. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created for Santa Cruz County, California., The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit falls under the purview of the County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. The GIS Unit serves all County departments and external customers and provides data on land, features and people of Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County encompasses 4 cities and approximately 265,000 people. This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data., These data were compiled from many different sources; therefore, the accuracy of the individual layers varies significantly, and some layers do not align exactly with others. In the urban areas, data are generally accurate within five to ten feet of their true geographic coordinates, but in the rural areas, data may be accurate to only within three hundred feet. With these limitations, the County of Santa Cruz disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or correctness of this data. This disclaimer is exclusive and in lieu of any warranties, fitness for particular purpose, and/or any other type of warranty, whether expressed or implied., This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Creator
Garcia, Paul, Price, Matt
Publisher
County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department
Subject
Administrative and political divisions, Cities and towns, Boundaries
Temporal Coverage
2015
Date Issued
2015
Rights
This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
Rights Holder
This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Access Rights
Public
Format
Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
October 01, 2025

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Cite and Reference

  • Citation
    Garcia, Paul, Price, Matt (2015). City Boundaries: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. (dataset)
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