Page:Geographic Areas Reference Manual (GARM).pdf/383

 PGAD See parish governing authority district.

Physical feature See visible feature.

Place A concentration of population either legally bounded as an incorporated place, or identified by the Census Bureau as a CDP. Incorporated places have political/statistical descriptions of borough (except in Alaska and New York), city, town (except in New England, New York, and Wisconsin), or village. See also census designated place, incorporated place, political/statistical area description.

Place code A four-digit code assigned by the Census Bureau to identify each incorporated or census designated place within a State (the Census Bureau assigns the codes based on the alphabetic sequence of the place names). Also, the five-digit numeric code assigned by the NIST to identify populated places, primary county divisions, and other locational entities within a State. The NIST assigns the codes based on the alphabetic sequence of the entity names; it documents the codes in FIPS PUB 55. See also Geographic Identification Code Scheme, Federal Information Processing Standards.

Plantation A type of functioning MCD found in Maine.

PLSS See public land survey system.

PMSA See primary metropolitan statistical area.

Police jury ward A type of nonfunctioning MCD found in Louisiana and used to tabulate data in the 1980 and several earlier decennial censuses; replaced by the parish governing authority district for the 1990 census.

Political entity See administrative entity, governmental unit, legal entity, statistical entity. G-38Glossary