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Data format: File Geodatabase Feature Class File or table name: historic_dist_py Coordinate system: State Plane Coordinate System Theme keywords: society, historical districts, history, historic preservation, architecture, urban land use, heritage, tourism, landmark |
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Abstract:
GIS Layer depicts historic districts in Kansas City, KS, as officially recognized by KCK Landmarks Commission. Some districts may also have State and National historic registration status.
Historic district boundaries are defined in document "Historic Districts" cited in Lineage section of this metadata.
Historic district means "a geographically definable area possessing a substantial concentration, linkage or continuity of sites, buildings, structures or objects united associationally by historic events or physically by historic plan, historic design or
historic development within a contiguous configuration of land, designated by the governing body as having particular historic, cultural or architectural significance, and limited in size to that reasonable area needed to sustain the integrity and to maintain the proper identification of the district." (KCK Landmarks Ordinance, Sec. 27-76)
There is a companion dataset named historic_dist_env_py, a GIS layer of 500 foot environs zone (buffer zone) around State-approved historic districts that establishes preservation-related control by State statute over properties within or touched by the 500 foot buffers.
Furnished in ESRI shapefile format in Kansas North State Plane coordinates, NAD83, units US feet. |
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Metadata elements shown with blue text are defined in the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Elements shown with green text are defined in the ESRI Profile of the CSDGM. Elements shown with a green asterisk (*) will be automatically updated by ArcCatalog. ArcCatalog adds hints indicating which FGDC elements are mandatory; these are shown with gray text.
GIS Layer depicts historic districts in Kansas City, KS, as officially recognized by KCK Landmarks Commission. Some districts may also have State and National historic registration status. Historic district boundaries are defined in document "Historic Districts" cited in Lineage section of this metadata. Historic district means "a geographically definable area possessing a substantial concentration, linkage or continuity of sites, buildings, structures or objects united associationally by historic events or physically by historic plan, historic design or historic development within a contiguous configuration of land, designated by the governing body as having particular historic, cultural or architectural significance, and limited in size to that reasonable area needed to sustain the integrity and to maintain the proper identification of the district." (KCK Landmarks Ordinance, Sec. 27-76) There is a companion dataset named historic_dist_env_py, a GIS layer of 500 foot environs zone (buffer zone) around State-approved historic districts that establishes preservation-related control by State statute over properties within or touched by the 500 foot buffers. Furnished in ESRI shapefile format in Kansas North State Plane coordinates, NAD83, units US feet.
Provides supplementary cultural GIS dataset to support Unified Government's Enterprise GIS. Useful for historic preservation and city planning/zoning studies.
Unified Government's GeoSpatial Services (GSS) is also custodian/distributor of many other digital spatial reference layer datasets covering Wyandotte County, Kansas. For more information on publicly available datasets contact GSS using Distributor contact info in this metadata.
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Urban Planning and Land Use Department of the Unifed Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.
All historic districts in Kansas City, KS that have State historic status are included in this dataset.
Presumed to be an accurate translation of historic district boundaries documents (see Source Information). Where tax parcels GIS layer was source of historic district boundary(s), locational accuracy of property polygon is same as tax parcels layer.
Furnishes an officially published description of historic district boundaries and in some cases, lists individual properties that constitute a district. See also source 'Landmarks Commission Case File, et. al.'
These documents provided basis for determining spatial geometry of historic district features, and their attribution
Metadata imported.
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Historic District Name
Urban Planning and Land Use
Length of feature in internal units.
ESRI
General location of district, or boundaries of same
Urban Planning and Land Use
Date district entered into Kansas City KS historic register
Urban Planning and Land Use
Date district entered into Kansas state historic register
Urban Planning and Land Use
Date district entered into National historic register
Urban Planning and Land Use
Area of feature in internal units squared.
ESRI
Comments
Urban Planning and Land Use
Internal feature number.
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District's architect/builder
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