topic Re: Adding a county to an existing shapefile in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316960#M18192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/0017/001700000050000000.htm">Append Tool </A><SPAN>if you want to add it to the existing shapefile</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you want to make a new shapefile from the two, use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/0017/001700000055000000.htm">Merge Tool</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:53:10 GMT IanMurray 2014-06-18T15:53:10Z Adding a county to an existing shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316959#M18191 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Very basic question as it's been years since I used ArcView.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to add a county to an existing shapefile.&nbsp; What is the easiest way to do so?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:47:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316959#M18191 JenRamos 2014-06-18T15:47:38Z Re: Adding a county to an existing shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316960#M18192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/0017/001700000050000000.htm">Append Tool </A><SPAN>if you want to add it to the existing shapefile</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you want to make a new shapefile from the two, use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/0017/001700000055000000.htm">Merge Tool</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:53:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316960#M18192 IanMurray 2014-06-18T15:53:10Z Re: Adding a county to an existing shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316961#M18193 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is the county in a shapefile? If the files are in the same format, you could use Append, or copy/paste.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:53:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316961#M18193 Zeke 2014-06-18T15:53:46Z Re: Adding a county to an existing shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316962#M18194 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You can start an editing session and then add it through that.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you have a different shapefile that has the county you want to add already, you can use the </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001700000050000000">append</A><SPAN> or </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Merge/001700000055000000/">merge</A><SPAN> tool.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I hope this helps!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:54:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/adding-a-county-to-an-existing-shapefile/m-p/316962#M18194 TimWitt 2014-06-18T15:54:23Z