Description: U.S. Places provide detailed boundaries that are consistent with the tract and county datasets and are effective at the national level. This dataset provides four feature classes. The base feature class is called Places_pl. The centroids feature class is called Places_pl_cent. The Places_pl and Places_pl_cent feature classes contain all the attributes. There are two generalized boundary feature classes and called: Places_pl_gen2 and Places_pl_gen3. Use the generalized boundaries when creating study areas.