66114
Coastal Populated Places
Data Set
Published / External
37232
MarineCadastre
Project
Completed
These data show the local of well-known places along the coast of the United States and its territories.
To support ocean planning activities pursuant to the Executive Order Regarding the Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and Environmental Interests of the United States, the Energy Policy Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Coastal Zone Management Act.
Bureau Code: 006:48, Program Code: 006:055
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
planningCadastre
Spatial
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Theme
coastal
Theme
planning
Theme
renewable energy
Spatial
Territorial Sea
Spatial
United States of America
Office for Coastal Management
Charleston
SC
USA
NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Charleston Office
Data Set
As Needed
Map (digital)
https://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html
U.S. Census Bureau, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
66115
Coastal Populated Places
Published / External
ACS_2013_3YR_Estimate
Double
No
No
Active
The U.S. Census 2013 3 year estimated population for populated cities at least over 20,00 people, or the 2013 population for cities over 20,000 people.
Census2010
Double
No
No
Active
The population of the given place based off the 2010 U.S Census.
NAME
Text
No
No
Active
The place name
OBJECTID
Object ID
No
No
Active
Unique ID generated by Esri
Place_Name
Text
No
No
Active
A combination of the name & state name to create a unique place name.
ST
Text
No
No
Active
The state abbreviation.
STATE
Text
No
No
Active
The state or territory name
Shape
Geometry
No
No
Active
Feature geometry generated by Esri
Point of Contact
2021
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
Ground Condition
-176.6580556
145.785477267
71.2905556
-14.380990309
Yes
Yes
Geometry Only
Unclassified
For coastal and ocean planning
https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/CoastalPopulatedPlace.zip
https://marinecadastre.gov/oceanreports/
Ocean Reports
Untested
Compiled to meet 10 meters horizontal accuracy at 95% confidence level
Untested
These data are logically consistent
2016 TIGER/Line® Shapefiles: Places
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
2017-01-01
https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2016&layergroup=Places
2016 TIGER/Line® Shapefiles: Places
Populated Places
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics's (BTS's) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD)
2016-02-16
http://osav-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/1077228477c047e7b4cc2c05cc9695f1_0
Populated Places
TIGER/Line® December 2010 Island Areas
United States Census Bureau
2011-01-01
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010DP1/DEC2010_IslandAreas.zip
TIGER2010DP1_DEC2010_IslandAreas.zip
TIGER/Line® with Selected Demographic and Economic Data
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
2011-01-01
https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-data.html
TIGER/Line® with Selected Demographic and Economic Data
USCB American FactFinder: TOTAL POPULATION
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
2014-01-01
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_3YR_B01003&prodType=table
Lookup table for total population, United States Census Bureau - American FactFinder
1
Starting with US Census data - Place_2010Census_DP1 & DEC2010_IslandAreas.
Shapefiles were downloaded for the US & Territories (which were separate)
All feature classes were then Projected into World Mercator
Each feature from the downloaded geodatabase had to be run through Feature to Point Tool-to make a point file for the centroid of the area
Created: State_Name, State, Place_Name & Census2010 columns & populated them accordingly.
Merged the 4 territories into one Census2012Territory Points shapefile.
Fixed exotic place names that did not come into ArcGIS correctly because of unrecognized characters.
2018-04-02T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
2
Utilizing the Populated Places layer from - U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics's (BTS's) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). Feature class was Projected into World Mercator
Layer contained many points so to make it easier to work with any point that was farther than 50 miles from the SLA (Submerged Land Act, BOEM layer) was removed to make processing easier-resulting layer was called Populated_PlacesCoastalCities.
2018-04-03T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
3
Created State_Name, State, Place_Name & Census2010 Columns & populated them accordingly.
Then Selected by Attribute cites based on population and export them into 4 independent point files with appropriate names - 4 levels of importance: Huge Cities >100K , Big Cities >10k but not including Huge , Medium Cities > 1k but not including Big & Huge, & Tiny Cities > 0 population but not including Medium, Big, & Huge. I called these layers, PP_CCHUGE, PP_CCBIG, PP_CCMED, & PP_CCTINY.
Allow the 4 new layers of cites to be added to your map.
Created a 5 mile buffer for the 3 largest layers.
2018-04-03T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
4
Before Removing any cites from these 4 city layers, duplicate each one of them & name it with REMOVED at the end. Remove the original layers= PP_CCHUGE, PP_CCBIG, PP_CCMED, & PP_CCTINY from your map so that you do not remove cities from them as it will be easier later to add a city back in from one of these layers if needed.
Working with your PP_CCHUGE_REMOVED, PP_CCBIG_REMOVED, PP_CCMED_REMOVED, & PP_CCTINY_REMOVED - Utilized the Huge_5mileBuffer to remove any city from the Big, Med, or Tiny falling within the Huge buffer using the select by location tool.
Utilized the Big_5mileBuffer to remove any Med & Tiny city within the Big buffer using the select by location tool.
Utilized the Med_5mileBuffer to remove any Tiny city within the Med buffer using the select by location tool.
2018-04-03T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
5
Merge Census2010TerritoryPoints & each of the 4 removed layers into one layer which I called PLACE.
If any areas appeared too sparse after this was completed I was able to return to the PP_CCHUGE, PP_CCBIG, PP_CCMED, & PP_CCTINY layers to see if there is a city to add, if no city existed look in the Place_2010 Census centroid point file.
Utilizing the Raster Navigational Charts from NOAA as a base map systematically start at Alaska & worked down around the coastline removing/deleting, using the editor tool, any extraneous cites from the center of land out to the coastline from smallest to largest, assuring that cites that existed on the RNC remained, or a city with the largest population near the coast & close to an RNC designated city remained.
2018-04-04T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
6
You are left with cities of differing sizes guaranteed to be 5 miles apart, but bunching will still occur with cities within the same layer.
For all areas where the coastline had a dense population of larger cites to utilize I deleted smaller sized inland cities (as we originally had a 50 mile buffer inland & moving forward only want coastal cities)
2018-04-04T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
7
Connected the ACS 2013 3YR total population estimates via the GEOID's provided & re-creating Place_Name within the ACS table. Copied population estimates to a created ACS_2013_3YR_Estimate attribute in Populated Places. Visually inspect information & fill in possible missing estimates using AmericanFact Finder for 2013 census data.
2018-04-09T00:00:00
Organization
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
66115
Entity
Coastal Populated Places
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:66114
Brianna Key
2021-12-21T21:49:14
SysAdmin InPortAdmin
2023-05-30T18:10:15
2021-12-22
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
1002
Public
No
2021-12-22
1 Year
2022-12-22