This layer (cities.tab) is light brown in color and contains populated place boundaries as defined by the US Census Bureau, including-
- Legal Entities — Incorporated Places, created under state law and reported to the Census Bureau as of January 1, 2010.
- Statistical Entities — Census Designated Places - recognizable communities or concentrations of population that are not Incorporated Places.
- Consolidated Cities — The primary Incorporated Place in a consolidated government2 is referred to as a Consolidated City.
Note: All boundaries have a vintage of the 2010 data and are based on the Census definition
of the Populated Place. The Cities layer includes a Federal Information
Processing Standards (FIPS) code that uniquely identifies each city.