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Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

metropolitan, population, inlandWaters, city

ISO 19115 Topic Category

environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters

Place Keywords

Conterminous 48 United States

Digital data sets describing metropolitan areas in the conterminous US

This data set describes metropolitan areas in the conterminous United States, developed from U.S. Bureau of the Census boundaries of Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSA) and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), that have been processed to extract the largest contiguous urban area within each MSA or CMSA.

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Author(s) United States Geological orcid
Publication Date 1999-01-01
Beginning Date of Data 1990
Ending Date of Data 1990
Data Contact
Curtis V. Price
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VR5MJ6
Citation Geological, U.S., 1999, Digital data sets describing metropolitan areas in the conterminous US: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VR5MJ6.
Metadata Contact
Water Mission Area
Metadata Date 2020-11-17
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