This object was created by aggregating a US census shapefile of towns in Hamilton and Fulton Counties in New York State. The settings used were:
aggregate hfagg610k total population to at least 6,000 and at most 15,000
request county borders, but do not require them
aggregate by closest geographic centroid
do not exclude any areas
hfagg615k
Simple features object with the following structure.
ID
Census county and town FIPS designation
TOWN
Town name
COUNTY
Census county FIPS designation
TOTAL_POP
Census population for 2010
GATflag
Flag values for excluded and problematic areas, if any
GATx
Recalculated longitude
GATy
Recalculated latitude
GATnumIDs
number of towns aggregated to the area