The U024.Municipalities layer has been updated to bring it up to the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) standard that is soon expected to be the ANSI standard for both city names and numeric city codes. Edits have been made to:

• Add a field called GNIS and assign values to that field representing the 7 digit numeric GNIS ID number for each municipality. And,

• Change, where needed,  the municipalities' NAME field value to reflect the official GNIS populated place name for each municipality. Changes made to the NAME Field are as follows:

• West Valley to West Valley City
• Tooele City to Tooele
• Heber to Heber City
• Roy City to Roy
• Farr West City to Farr West
• Draper City to Draper
• Washington City to Washington
• La Verkin to LaVerkin
• Hildale City to Hildale
• East Carbon to East Carbon City
• Brigham to Brigham City
• Boulder to Boulder Town

Notes:

• These changes do not affect values in the SHORTDESC field used by the State Tax Commission's taxing entity database (CASS)
• Several municipalities include area within more than one county. Examples of this are found in Park City, Draper, and Santaquin. According to the GNIS folks the recommended way to refer to the unique county-city combinations is to use the FIPS county code together with the GNIS populated place name code.
• There are two ambiguous GNIS codes that AGRC is working to resolve...they are for South Salt Lake and Layton. The GNIS currently has two entries for the same placename in the same county and we'll ask for guidance on which one to use for the incorporated municipality.