04/21/2021

Updates:

1. Town of Poca, Putnam county - Boundary of Town of Poca in Putnam County was updated using the updated boundary provided by community. Source of oriignal data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_Putnam_County\Export_Output_4.shp

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12/03/2019

Updates:

FEMA Region III data was joined to th featureclass. All of the the FEMA data is in the end of table. FEMA data starts after OBJECTID_12_13_14__15_16_17

1. Orgiinal FEMA Region III data used for join is located at O:\inlandwaters\Flood_Data\Community_Status_Community_Boundary\From_FEMA_RegionIII\FEMA R3 Community Data_CEP_September_Report_for_WV 20191125c sorted POLICY.xlsx

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10/01/2019

Updates:

Community boundaries were updated for the following communities:

1. Town of Smithers, Fayette County

2. City of Mount Hope, Fayette County

3. City of Mullens, Wyoming County

4. City of Elkins, Randolph County

Modifications to above mentioned communities are based on data provided by Scott McAfee (scott.mcafee@fema.dhs.gov), FEMA Region 3 on 9/6/2019.

Original data that has been used to process these communities is stored at following location: \\gistc-filesrv1\onlineDataStorage\boundaries\communityBoundary\From_FEMA\cl2020_v01.gdb\cl2020_v01.gdb\wv_sample

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The West Virginia GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) created this community boundary feature class using Census incorporated area 2018 data (https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-geodatabases.html).

Source Location (O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\tlgdb_2018_a_54_wv.gdb) and County boundaries (24K) (source location- \\gistc-filesrv2\vectorData\Boundaries\Boundaries_GDB.gdb\POLITICALBOUNDARY\POLITICBOUNDARY_county24k).

This Feature class was updated for Tucker County with community=provided incorporated areas, as Census has older data. (Source of Tucker county incorporated data- O:\boundaries\communityBoundary\Tucker County Town Boundaries_20181210).

There are 55 counties and 232 communities in West Virginia. However, 8 communities (Wheeling, Weirton, Paden City, Montgomery, Smithers, Huntington, Nitro and Alderson) are split between two counties. For risk analysis projects, these incorporated areas have been split along county boundaries. As a result of the split there are 240 incorporated area polygons and 55 unincorporated area polygons. In total, this feature class contains 290 polygons.

This feature class has also been joined to

1. NFIP table (updated as of Oct 2018) source location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\NFIP_Policy_asof_20180930.xlsx

2. CRS table for communities (updated as of Oct 2018) source Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\CRS_Rating_asof_oct2018.pdf

3. NFIP Community Status Table (updated as of 4/20/2018) Souce Location - O:\inlandwaters\Flood\FloodHazard\Effective\NFIP_CRS\FEMA_CommunityStatusReport_asof_20180403.csv

4. West Virginia Regional Planning Development Council Regions - Source Location - http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/dataset.php?ID=30