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City/town names ending with state abbreviations

Started by 2Co5_14, March 12, 2014, 01:05:02 PM

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J N Winkler

Quote from: Duke87 on March 16, 2014, 10:38:46 PM
Quote from: J N Winkler on March 16, 2014, 09:08:50 PMThis is a meta question, but what resources are people using to identify CDPs in particular states?

Wikipedia has lists. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census-designated_places_in_Oklahoma
Although this does not include the contents of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Oklahoma (where my example came from), or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Oklahoma

Thanks for this.  I did some digging and discovered that Wikipedia doesn't have CDP listing pages for all states--for example, one doesn't exist for Kansas (the closest approximation being a category page).  However, the Census makes cartographic boundary files available for all states and the distribution for each state includes a DBF file which appears to be a complete listing of all CDPs and incorporated communities in that state.

When I downloaded the file for Kansas, I was rather surprised to discover that St. Mark(s) is not even classified as a CDP.
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