,More Metadata,This GIS layer contains the geographical boundaries of the 2010 census tracts for Loudoun County, Virginia. The 2010 Census tract boundaries are used for Census Bureau statistical data tabulation purposes, including the 2010 Decennial Census and American Community Surveys.,Census tracts are part of the sub-county census geography hierarchy of tracts, block groups, and blocks. The three census geographies nest to each other, forming a hierarchy of census tract, followed by block groups, and then blocks, with blocks being the smallest. A census tract consists of one or more census block groups and is a cluster of census blocks within the same census tract. Tracts are uniquely identified within a County by a six digit number. The last two digits will be zeros unless earlier divisions of the census tract occurred as a result of population growth.,Loudoun County's tracts were delineated by Loudoun County Government during the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program for the 2010 Census. The 2010 Census tract layer has been modified from the Census Bureau's Tiger line file. Users should be aware that the Census's Tiger line data is devised from a mix of national and local GIS data sets. When the Tiger line data is overlaid with Loudoun County Government's detailed GIS layers it can be determined that the Census Bureau's Tiger line boundaries in some cases are slightly off from the actual location of the physical features, natural features, and governmental units such as town boundaries that they are designated to follow. The 2010 Loudoun census tract layer was generated by Loudoun County so that the tract boundaries would overlay with the features in Loudoun County's GIS data sets that the boundary are designated to follow.,

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,Miscellaneous cultural areas are a base map data layer derived by automated processes and processed for cartographic representation at 1:2400 scale. These area features represent the features that do not fall under the more common layer types such as roads, buildings, etc. Typical features captured in miscellaneous polys are cemeteries, quarries, swimming pools, athletic fields, and golf course features as seen from above and are mapped to National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS).,MI_TYPE code description: 1 Pools (swimming pools or settling ponds), 2 Impervious Recreational Courts, 3 Non-Impervious Recreational Courts, 4 Cemetery, 5 unassigned, 6 Rip Rap, 7 Quarry, 8 Area under construction, storage or debris, 9 Golf Course feature (bunkers, tees & greens).,

The place type approach is intended to create distinct and “complete” residential neighborhoods, employment centers, open spaces, and other areas. By providing greater flexibility in development types and uses while providing additional guidance on design expectations, place types can also facilitate more dynamic, livable neighborhoods and allow for established areas to evolve and improve. It provides a way to shape the future of Loudoun by concentrating on context – the look and feel of places, their form and their character – instead of focusing only on conventional land use categories and specific uses.,

,More Metadata,This Water Well layer was created in March 2010 to provide an easily accessiable spatial database of water wells only. It also provides additional attribute information on Status, Depth, etc.,The original water well & pollution source layer was developed in 1988 by the County’s Environmental Health Department. Records were entered into a database from 40 years of historical paper files, which exhibited a wide range of completeness and accuracy. This was an on-going process until early 1996 at which time the layer was no longer maintained. In late 2000, the Department of Building and Development began a process of updating the layer by entering data from the permit files, which had accumulated since 1996.,