neighborhood · official boundary
Back Bay
An official neighborhood of Boston, as bounded by the Boston Planning Department — 399 acres. This is the official layer: the boundary an authority drew. What people call this place, and where they say it reaches, are filed separately as attested claims.
The official boundary of Back Bay as promulgated by the Boston Planning Department.
Place
official layer
An official boundary, promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it. It is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer.
- Type
- neighborhood
- Authority
- Boston Planning Department
- Within
- Boston
- Area
- 1.62 km²
- Boundary
- held as GeoJSON — see the JSON rendering
Attested claims about this record
These are attestations, not adjudications. The archive records who says a thing and since when. Where two attestations disagree, both stand.
Back Bay is called the Back Bay
Attested by English Wikipedia (reference work) since as at the date of retrieval · attested
Related records
- located in — Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:entity:back-bay
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/place/back-bay
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/place/back-bay.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Boston Planning Department neighborhood boundaries — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- 2
- Attribution
- Boston Planning Department
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the official neighborhood boundaries as GeoJSON from the City of Boston open-data portal | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | reproject | the source is already WGS 84 (EPSG:4326); the geometry was set to that SRID and multi-cast without alteration of coordinates | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | normalize | the feature's name became the record title; the boundary was written to the official layer with the promulgating authority named | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |