CMAP Metropolitan Planning Area — cmap_mpa

This dataset depicts the individual counties (some only partial) that compose the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Area, approved by the Board of CMAP and the MPO Policy Committee in March of 2013. Final approval by Governor Quinn was granted on 11 September, 2014. The revised MPA includes the urbanized area established by the US Census Bureau pursuant to the 2010 Decennial Census. The MPA was expanded to include Somonauk and Sandwich Townships in DeKalb County.

cmap_mpa_sf

Format

A polygon sf object with 9 rows and 5 variables:

label_name: County name (or township names, for partial counties). Character.
county_fips: Unique 5-digit county FIPS code. Character.
whole_county: Does feature represent an entire county? Logical.
sqmi: Area in square miles. Double.
geometry: Feature geometry. sf polygon.

Source

CMAP Data Hub (temporarily offline)

Examples

# Display the CMAP MPA counties with ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(cmap_mpa_sf) + geom_sf(aes(fill = whole_county), lwd = 0.1) + theme_void()