Description: This data contains the Alaska borough boundaries. The borough boundaries came from various sources. The Kenai Peninsula Borough and the Municipality of Anchorage boundaries were received in digital form from those agencies. The Land & Peninsula Borough and the City & Borough of Yakutat were entered from legal descriptions. The City & Borough of Yakutat boundary was changed in 1997. Update edits were provided by the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs. The Denali Borough was digitized from an official map from the Department of Regional and Community Affairs. All other boroughs were extracted from the 1990 TIGER database and snapped to the township grid coverage. All boundaries have been checked against their legal descriptions. The REAA boundaries are important to state funding of school programs throughout Alaska. The boundaries were extracted from the LAS Land File and adjusted to follow organized borough boundaries, where applicable and to follow legal descriptions for those portions not corresponding to borough boundaries. The boundaries were derived from the source documents provided by the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs. In 1997, the Adak REAA was dissolved and combined with the Aleutian Region REAA.
Copyright Text: Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Municipality of Anchorage, Bureau of Land Management.