Minor Civil Division

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001197",
  "term": "Minor Civil Division",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "A primary governmental and/or administrative subdivision of a county or equivalent entity in 29 states (Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas. The District of Columbia has no primary divisions and is considered equivalent to an MCD for statistical purposes. Tennessee contained census county divisions (CCDs) for Census 2000, and reverted to MCDs for the the 2010 Census.\n\nMCDs include areas designated as barrios, barrios-pueblo, boroughs, charter townships, commissioner districts, election districts, election precincts, gores, grants, locations, magisterial districts, parish governing authority districts, plantations, purchases, reservations, supervisor's districts, towns, and townships.",
  "abbreviation": "MCD",
  "see_also": [
    "Census County Division",
    "Census Subarea",
    "County subdivision",
    "Unorganized territory"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/minor-civil-division/"
}